Pelvic Floor Pain and Dysfunction in Women
Pelvic floor pain and dysfunction in women is both common and underdiagnosed. According to the National Library of Medicine, up to 25% of healthy non-pregnant...
Is Your Sex Drive Different to Your Partner’s?
One of the most common things I hear when working with clients who are in a relationship is “my sex drive is different to my...
What’s Food Got To Do With It?
I have written a few posts about ways to deal with anxiety, sexual health and dysfunction and feeling more pleasure and sensations in the body....
5 Tips For Learning Self-Regulation
Learning self-regulation is expanding the ability for staying present with difficult emotions in the body, including their accompanying physical sensations. Dan Siegel, a clinical professor...
The Nervous System: Why It’s Relevant
Understanding how the nervous system works is an important element of somatic therapy. Below is a brief overview of the different divisions, as well as...
Healing From Sexual Abuse: Tips For Women
Instances of sexual abuse are prominent in our culture, and are experienced by people of all genders, not just women. For experiences more specific to...
Post Traumatic Growth: The Silver Lining
Trauma can be incredibly difficult to live with and heal from. This said, many people do manage to overcome their past experiences and grow as...
Somatic Sex Therapy: Feel Safer and More Fulfilled
How is Somatic Sex Therapy Different to Traditional Sex Therapy? Somatic sex therapy is referred to by different names, such as somatic sexology, sexological bodywork,...
Is Abreaction (Emotional Expression) During a Session Desirable?
Emotional expression during a session is called abreaction. According to the online Oxford dictionary, an abreaction is “the expression and consequent release of a previously...
Tantra Helped Me After My Prostatectomy
The Prostatectomy In April 2018, I discovered that I had prostate cancer. I had no symptoms; it was discovered by an astute GP whilst investigating...