Certified Sex Therapist

Everyone just becomes like family as soon as they get on Intimate Conversations, so I'm very excited to introduce Vanessa Cushing.

She is a licensed professional counselor, a certified sex therapist, and the founder of Cushing Counseling.

And her clinical practice centers on sexual health, trauma, intimacy, and relationships, working with individuals and couples, navigating sexual dysfunction, desire discrepancies, out-of-control sexual behaviors, attachment wounds, and identity.

And she is fluent in CBT, cognitive behavioral therapy, emotionally focused therapy, the Gottman method, and mindfulness-based approaches.

Awesome.

Claudia is a licensed marriage and family therapist, a certified sex therapist and owner and clinical director of PNW Sex Therapy Collective in Seattle.

A thought leader on sexuality, modern relationships and mental health, her work explores the intersection of sex, identity, power and psychological well-being.

She examines how cultural narratives, social expectations and systemic inequities influence desire, attachment, burnout and relational satisfaction.

And over those decades, I've worked with children, families, couples, adults, and I've really been passionate about the work that I've done with adults and couples over the years around their intimate relationship.

And so today I practice in my private practice as a certified sex therapist.

And so men and women, couples, individuals are coming to see me with a lot of different questions and concerns and desires around their sex life.

And I love starting where each client is at and kind of being a person along their sexual journey, wherever that has led them to and wherever that is going to lead them, you know, from and where that's going to lead them to.

And today we are joined by Haley Mayer-Grant.

Haley is a AASECT certified sex therapist and owner of Xenia Counseling in Utah.

She specializes in trauma, sexual health, relationships, and nervous system regulation.

Haley provides trainings and consultation through IYKYK therapy to support ethical, informed sexual health conversations in clinical practice.

And it's quickly talked about maybe in a biopsychosocial thing, but not in a way of here's how you ask the questions.

It's like, here are the topics you cover in biopsychosocial.

So I've done a couple of presentations for college students because something that's not known is college students are actually allowed to start their process of becoming certified sex therapists.

They just can't receive their certification until they have their graduate degree.