248. Hollywood Ruined Us – Sex Therapist Brooke Bralove

You Are Not Broken

Kelly Casperson, MD

Medicine, Health & Fitness

5 • 743 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Hollywood Ruined Us – Sex Therapist Brooke Bralove Brooke Bralove, LCSW-C is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Psychotherapist, Master Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) Practitioner, AASECT Certified Sex Therapist, and Certified Daring Way™ Facilitator. Brooke specializes in treating adults, couples, and groups with anxiety, trauma, and relationship challenges. Brooke’s new passion is Accelerated Resolution Therapy, a brief treatment modality using bilateral eye movements that provides lasting relief and healing to patients with PTSD, trauma, addiction, anxiety, and depression. She has maintained a private practice in Bethesda, Maryland for 20 years. Summary In this episode, Dr. Kelly Casperson interviews Brooke Bralove, a licensed clinical social worker and certified sex therapist, about her work in treating sexual health issues and trauma. Brooke discusses her evolution into specializing in sexual health and the importance of education and normalizing sexual issues. She explains the benefits of accelerated resolution therapy (ART) in treating trauma and shares success stories. Brooke also addresses the role of vulnerability in intimacy, the spectrum of trauma, and the integration of therapy into medical practice. She provides resources for finding an ART therapist. Takeaways Education and normalizing sexual issues are crucial in helping individuals and couples address sexual health challenges. Accelerated resolution therapy (ART) is a brief treatment modality that uses bilateral eye movements to provide lasting relief and healing for trauma and sexual health issues. Vulnerability is essential for intimacy, and therapy can create a safe space for open communication and healing. Trauma can manifest in various forms, including sexual trauma, medical trauma, and developmental trauma. Finding a therapist who is trauma-informed and trained in specialized therapies like ART can be beneficial for individuals seeking help. www.brookebralove.com FB: brookebralovepsychotherapy IG: @brookebralovepsychotherapy Tik Tok: @bbralovepsychotherapy Acceleratedresolutiontherapy.com Check out details for my retreat: https://ascendretreats.com/ Listen to my Tedx Talk: Why we need adult sex ed Take my NEW Adult Sex Ed Master Class: https://www.kellycaspersonmd.com/adult-sex-ed Join my membership to get these episodes ASAP, a private facebook group to discuss and my private accountability group for your health, hormones and life support! www.kellycaspersonmd.com/membership --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kj-casperson/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the You Are Not Broken Podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Kelly Casperson, a board-certified
0:09.9	jurologist, thought leader, and conversation starter on midlife living, hormones, and sexuality.
0:16.6	Enjoy the show. Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the You're Not Broken podcast. Today, I have
0:21.4	Brooke Braylove on the show today, and she's a licensed clinical social worker, psychotherapist,
0:26.8	master accelerated resolution therapy practitioner, which we're going to talk about, and an asex certified
0:32.0	sex therapist. She specialized in treating adults, couples, and groups with anxiety, trauma,
0:37.2	and relationship
0:37.8	challenges.
0:39.2	Brooke's new passion is accelerated resolution therapy, a brief treatment modality using bilateral
0:44.1	eye movements that provides lasting relief and healing to patients with PTSD, trauma,
0:49.3	addiction, anxiety, and depression.
0:51.6	She's maintained a private practice in Bethesda, Maryland for 20 years.
0:55.5	Thanks for joining us, Brooke. Thanks for having me, Kelly. Thank you. So we have a mutual friend,
1:00.7	Dr. Rachel Rubin, which is how we got introduced. Tell me a brief history of time of how you
1:05.9	got to treat people with sexual health issues, sexual dysfunction issues, sexual trauma.
1:11.8	How did you evolve to be this person?
1:15.0	Yeah, so I had a regular private practice kind of doing, again, anxiety, depression and that sort of thing.
1:22.3	And then I found that when I was working with couples, I just wanted to be able to give them more information,
1:31.4	educate them more about sexual issues, give them lots of strategies for increasing intimacy.
1:39.0	And I couldn't really do that with a regular sort of social work degree.
1:43.9	And so I went and did the
1:45.9	asex training. And it's been amazing and super fun. I often say to people, you know, they're like,
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