Welcome to Therapist Uncensored, a podcast where therapists freely speak their minds about real life matters.

Welcome to Therapis Unsensur. Throughout our podcast, we have an ongoing

mission to bring fresh ideas and innovative perspectives on the

relational sciences and insights on how neurobiology impacts your everyday life.

And today we're going to continue with this theme and apply it specifically to sex and

sexuality.

I'm Anne Kelly and I think you're really going

to enjoy our guest today. Today I get the pleasure of interviewing Dr.

Alexandra Katahawkus. Dr. Katahawkus is the founding director of the Center for Healthy Sex in Los Angeles, California.

She's also a clinical sexologist and a fairly prolific writer in the subject of sexuality.

For example, she's the co-author of the award-winning

Mirror of Intimacy, Daily Reflections on Emotional

and Erotic Intelligence.

And she's the author of sex addiction as effect

dysregulation a neurobiology-informed holistic treatment.

So as you can see she has an extensive knowledge and expertise in neurobiology,

affect regulation, and sexuality.

And from that base, we engage really in a very sex positive discussions,

discussion on many areas that I think you're going to find fascinating and

really compelling and very relevant to your everyday life. For example, if you're a

parent, we talk about sexuality as it relates to children and their growing development and

ways that you can best promote a positive healthy sexual development and the risk we run sometimes of doing just the opposite

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