8 Questions That Tell You If Therapy Is Worth Your Time
Silicon Valley professionals and couples: You're used to solving complex problems fast, but therapy works differently. These 8 questions help you find someone who understands high-functioning stress, relational distance, nervous system patterns, and the body-mind disconnect—without wasting time on generic advice. What to ask them, yourself, and how to know it's a real fit.
Understanding Women’s Desire: Intimacy and a Nonliner Sexual Response Model in High-Achieving Lives
Women’s desire does not always arrive spontaneously. For high-achieving women and couples in Palo Alto, Atherton, Los Altos Hills, and surrounding Silicon Valley communities, Basson’s sexual response model offers a way to understand low libido, sexual pain, and intimacy challenges—emphasizing context, safety, and relational connection over expectation.
Healing Vaginismus: EMDR and the BeTogether Approach
Vaginismus treatment in Palo Alto combining EMDR and the BeTogether Approach addresses both the involuntary muscle response and underlying trauma. Learn how therapy helps reconnect with the body and resolve pain.
When Love Is Present But Desire Isn't: Navigating Sexual Shutdown in Relationships
Desire discrepancy—when one partner is sexually shut off while still deeply in love—is one of the most common and confusing issues couples face. This isn't about attraction fading or relationship problems. It's often about disconnection from one's own body, the weight of obligation, and a nervous system that has learned sex means pressure rather than pleasure. Through clinical examples and therapeutic insight, this article explores how reconnecting with oneself, establishing genuine boundaries, and creating safety for both yes and no allows authentic desire to emerge naturally. For individuals and couples in Palo Alto, Los Altos Hills, Atherton, and throughout the Bay Area navigating mismatched libidos, therapy can help rebuild the foundation from which connection and desire arise.
Bridging the Gap: Understanding Desire Discrepancy in Couples
Desire discrepancy refers to the situation where partners in a relationship have different levels of sexual desire or interest.
Empowering Men: Navigating Sexual Initiation with Confidence and Respect
Empowering Men: Navigating Sexual Initiation with Confidence and Respect
how sexual trauma can impact the process of trying to conceive
Though trauma doesn't manifest in every instance of sexual violence, and it certainly doesn't manifest in the same way for everyone, it's quite common for survivors to experience long-lasting emotional and physical effects after nonconsensual sexual encounters — and if you do, you’re not alone.