PT567 – Sex and Psychedelics: Healing Through Altered States, with Bria Tavakoli, LPCC, MA, MS
Psychedelics Today
Psychedelics Today, LLC
4.6 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2024
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Joe interviews Bria Tavakoli, LPCC, MA, MS: a therapist specializing in relational and sex therapy, with a focus on helping clients integrate psychedelic experiences.
She shares her personal journey with psychedelics and how they unlocked deep trauma, allowing her to develop a level of comfort with intimacy, love, and her sexuality. She talks about the parallels between psychedelic journeys and sexual experiences, and how both can be gateways to unexplored parts of ourselves, as well as catalysts for healing and transformation. She discusses society's cultural shame surrounding our sexuality, why we need to view sexuality from a wellness-based model, and how psychedelics can help couples grow together, and at times, really challenge their relational structures. When asked how to combine sex and psychedelics, she answers, "very carefully."
She also discusses:
- The immense importance of creating a safe space for couples discussing their intimacy
- How clients reporting sexual concerns is usually a cheat code to determining what their real issues are
- Ethical and practical considerations for combining psychedelics and sex therapy, related to stories of concerning sexual behavior in the space
- Why humor and lightness is so important in this work
- The importance of honoring individual capacity and being true to yourself when exploring new experiences
and more!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody, Joe Moore here. |
| 0:13.6 | Welcome back to psychedelics today. |
| 0:15.5 | Today on the show, we have Brea Tavacoli, |
| 0:18.0 | who's a sex therapist living in Boulder, Colorado, and we get into some really |
| 0:23.1 | interesting intersection points around sex therapy and psychedelics and have a really, I think, |
| 0:29.6 | lovely conversation. We've known each other for a long time now. Brea used to help us a bit with |
| 0:36.1 | some of our writing, has a really interesting background, |
| 0:38.8 | sometime at Yoga Journal and elsewhere. And it was just really great to finally have Bria on the show. |
| 0:43.6 | So thank you, Bria, for being here. Really appreciate it. That's it for the intro. Thank you all for |
| 0:48.8 | listening. And we will see you on the other side. |
| 0:55.1 | Hi, everybody. Welcome back to psychedelics today. Joe Moore here with Brea Tavacoli. Did I say it |
| 1:01.2 | right? You sure did. Outstanding. Well, I should get it right at this point in the game. |
| 1:06.7 | How are you today? I'm good. Sometimes I don't get it right myself, to be quite honest. But yes, I'm great. So good to be here with you. I feel like this has been years in the making. I'm beyond happy to be here. Let's talk about that. So we, I don't even know how we got in touch with you, but we had you helping a bunch on a bunch of editorial stuff years ago. And you had some experience, yoga journal and some other magazines. |
| 1:31.2 | And it was really cool to be able to work with you like that. |
| 1:33.9 | And I don't even remember when that was. |
| 1:35.8 | Was that deep COVID? |
| 1:37.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:37.7 | I think it was sometime in 2021. |
| 1:41.6 | And I initially had gotten in, like had somehow gotten onto one of your |
| 1:46.0 | we connected somehow around your courses and then we started talking about other stuff and it |
| 1:52.9 | turned out that it was like oh yeah there's this a way that we can collaborate and that was |
| 1:57.8 | really that was super fun it's I love it when I get to use my different skills in different contexts. So that was cool. Yeah. So we are here today to talk about, |
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