#807 Sex Esteem®️ & Therapy - Sari Cooper
Mental Illness Happy Hour
Paul Gilmartin
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2026
⏱️ 133 minutes
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Summary
Sari Cooper is the founder and Director of the Center for Love and Sex. A professional dancer turned sex therapist, Sari opens up about her path to this profession, including her own family history of mental illness. She also talks about her work and how you can begin to work through shame and build your sexual self-esteem.
More about Sari Cooper:
Follow her on TikTok @saricooperofficial
www.centerforloveandsex.com -Group private practice offering both individual and relationship sex therapy.
Sex Esteem® Coaching for international clients and partners who want targeted help in their erotic and sexual goals.
Erotic Intimacy Academy: www.eroticacademy.net
IG @saricooperofficial
FB @saricooperofficial
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SXEsteemwithSariCooper
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 807 with my guest, Sarah Cooper. I'm Paul Gilmartin, and if you're new, |
| 0:07.4 | welcome to a place for honesty about all the battles in our heads, from medically diagnosed |
| 0:13.1 | conditions, past traumas, and sexual dysfunction, to everyday compulsive negative thinking. |
| 0:19.6 | This show is not meant to be a substitute for professional mental counseling. |
| 0:23.9 | I'm not a therapist. |
| 0:25.6 | But welcome. |
| 0:27.5 | Make yourself at home. |
| 0:29.9 | Say hello to Gracie. |
| 0:31.1 | Say hello to Pablo. |
| 0:34.1 | Pablo, for those of you that are not regular listeners, is my girlfriend's cat. |
| 0:40.7 | And they moved in about six months ago. |
| 0:42.7 | And I was really afraid there were three feral cats that hang out around my neighbor's house. |
| 0:51.8 | And she feeds them. |
| 0:53.4 | So I think that's obviously one of the reasons they hang |
| 0:55.9 | out. But they're kind of badass. They are not afraid of Gracie. And Gracie pretends that she |
| 1:03.1 | does Gracie as my dog, pretends that she doesn't see them when I take her on a walk. And they'll |
| 1:07.9 | pass within eight feet of each other and they won't budge crazy's |
| 1:12.3 | just eyes straight ahead he doesn't want any part of it and so uh before christina and gracey moved in |
| 1:22.9 | christina and pablo moved in uh pablo had gotten loose out of her apartment and got in a fight and almost had his ear torn off. |
| 1:36.9 | And my fear when they moved in was, oh my God, those three feral cats are gonna kill him and it turns out he's the bully |
| 1:50.8 | and they're they're afraid of him i don't i don't know how that works but in an interesting |
| 1:58.1 | twist uh apparently he has fallen for one of them, |
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