Okay, hey guys what's going on Drew here that anxiety guy dot com with you to with me today is my friend Leslie Gustafson all the way from Colorado

who has agreed to spend some time with us today and talk about the topic of anxiety disorders and sex and intimacy.

Yes, Leslie?

Yes, absolutely.

So glad.

So yeah, yeah, thanks for taking the time. Really, appreciate so I'll give you the 30 second version of where Leslie comes from Leslie is a clinical psychologist correct

Nope, I'm a licensed marriage and family therapist and a certified sex therapist.

Okay, good answer. So I screwed up right away.

Strike one on Drew.

Some people call me doctor, but it's not technically accurate.

Yeah, okay, no problem. So, so, problem so let lessee comes from that

background of of therapy and and you had mentioned to me in a previous chat that

you had spent some time even treating anxiety disorders in the past? I still treat anxiety disorders

because anxiety disorders are so prevalent and show up in my office all of the time.

More specifically early on I was doing only anxiety and depression and bipolar but I work with couples a lot and also everybody walks in with everything so yeah.

So it's good combo so Leslie brings that to the table and that

specialization in marriage and intimacy therapy and sex therapy and good so one of the things that comes up a lot one topic that comes up a lot in our

discussion forum and around the podcast is the topic of how these anxiety issues panic

disorder panic attacks agoraphobia, impact intimacy and relationships and people's

sex lives.

So it appears to be a topic that many people have in their minds, not too many people

for comfortable discussing, and I thought it would be worth spending

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