Welcome back to another sweet talks podcast today. We got a very very special guest sex therapist, correct?

Oh, yeah, also on the radio mr. Sam Zee. Welcome

Thank you very much for having me. I appreciate it. No, thank you for coming on. We

We've been wanting this for a long time actually Julie and actually brought this up. He was before we met Brent

He said we want a sex therapist on here or some type of counselor some type of therapist. Yeah, like how where do you

What would you like say you are your licensed marriage counselor? Yeah, Marit license marriage and family therapist and I'm also trained in sex therapy

I'm studying for a PhD in human sexuality

just and I have

training through a lot of trauma work and stuff like that

I'm considered a trauma specialist. I work with the VA people struggling with PTSD and also sexual trauma

And I work with couples and stuff like that normal normal mental health stuff

That's cool. What what kind of schooling like training does it take to become something like that?

Just to get to be a licensed marriage and family therapist you have to have a master's degree and either clinical

Psychology or social work. I have mine in clinical psychology and from there I

Went and got a sec training and you get supervision with that and now I'm going for a PhD in human sexuality at the

California Institute of integral studies so trying to get as much

As much experience under my belt with this stuff as I can because at the end of the day if I'm gonna help out the community

I'm this is the way you got to do it. We have as much artillery behind you as possible

This is how you get it education. How long did you go to school for this and how long have you been doing doing what you do now?

Master's took about two years wasn't that didn't take that long it was

The hard parts were just getting used to the fact that you're gonna be sitting in a room with somebody and getting

Getting comfortable with yourself in that situation

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