5 Ways Sex Therapy Can Improve Your Life

While sexual activities and desires are often perfectly normal, knowing how to express one’s sexuality isn’t always simple. Many people struggle with sexual expression, both during acts of intimacy and while living their everyday lives.

Several factors can influence the challenges that some people experience regarding their desires, including upbringing, religious background, cultural norms, and more. In many cases, these challenges can lead to sexual dysfunction, which can go unnoticed and unaddressed by medical professionals. Sex therapy can be an essential solution to complex challenges, providing resources to those who need them most.

If you are wondering how sex therapy can improve your life, here are five ways:

It allows people to improve their sex lives.
It creates a safe space for exploring sexuality, including desires or interests that may be considered taboo.
It helps people heal from sexual trauma, allowing them to recover from painful events and move toward healthy intimate relationships.
It gives people an opportunity to get expert guidance on issues of sexual dysfunction, regardless of the manifestation.
It provides a safe space for the exploration of sexual identity, including internal beliefs, outward expression, and everything in between.

Experiencing challenges with sex and sexuality is not only common, but is normal. However, that doesn’t mean people don’t need guidance. Sex therapy can offer support, understanding, and insight in a safe and constructive environment.

You can learn about sex therapy at The Sexual Health School. We specialize in providing AASECT and APA human sexuality CE courses that you can complete from the comfort of your home.

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Dr. Jay Watts (She/They), is a Muslimah Sexologist hailing from Appalachia, has spent more than 14 years in the field of diversity, equity, and inclusion and more than a decade in sexual health and wellness. Informed by her rural roots and intersectional identity, she has aided in the support of more than 28 school districts, 30 higher educational institutions, 12 corporate settings, 42 non-profits, and more than 60,000 touch points of development at local and national conferences as a keynote and esteemed facilitator/speaker.

Dr. Jay has a Bachelor's degree from the University of Louisville in Social Studies Education; a Master's from Eastern Kentucky University in Human Services; a Master's from Kent State University in Cultural Foundations of Education; and a PhD from Walden University in Human Services: Mental Health (Sexuality Studies). They are board certified as a clinical sexologist through the American Board of Sexology, pending certification as a Sex Counselor through AASECT, and is a current board member for the American Board of Sexology. She has worked as a clinical sexologist for the Washington Wellness Institute, Maven Clinic, The Center for Empowered Sexual Wellness, and has consulted for state and federal projects, non-profits, and corporations. She specializes in not only sex counseling/coaching but policy development, education, HIV prevention, STD/STI education, pleasure-affirming practices for those living with HIV and AIDS, and curriculum design.

Furthermore, Jay has several esteemed publications including her dissertation research "Appropriated Racial Oppression as a Moderator of Sexual Satisfaction of Black Women". She is contracted to release "Unboxed" to liberate pansexual voices around the world by 2025 with Jessica Kinsley Publishing. In addition, she has presented at international, national, state, local, medical hospitals, and university settings.

Dr. Jay has merged her previous two businesses (The Center for Empowered Sexual Wellness & DiversiFirm Group) to form a non-profit (The Jilan Center) that specializes in The "4" Cores of Healing Justice: Sexual Wellness, Racial Healing, Recovery, and Community Power-Building. This organization will also be the home of the current The Inclusive Sex Coach Program and expanded certification options for sexologists (new and seasoned).

In 2025, Dr. Jay will release a sex tech app to support sexual health and wellness that embodies her foundation in justice, dignity, and belonging. She is excited to venture into a new area within sexuality and welcomes those who want to join her in their journey. Although her focus is Islamic sexual health, she welcomes all and has a great network of providers who can provide expanded support.

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Foundations of Sexual Health: Empowering Ethical Decision-Making through Self-Reflection
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Dr. Janet Brito is an AASECT-certified sex therapist & supervisor who also has a license in clinical psychology and social work. She is a graduate of Pacifica Graduate Institute and completed her postdoctoral fellowship from the University of Minnesota Medical School, one of only a few university programs in the world dedicated to sexuality training. Currently, she’s based in Honolulu, Hawaii and is the founder of the Hawaii Center for Sexual and Relationship Health, a group practice that specializes in the areas of relationship and sex therapy, out of control sexual behavior, and providing an affirming space for gender and sexually diverse individuals.

In 2021, Dr. Brito started The Sexual Health School, an online training program for pre-licensed, licensed therapists, educators, graduate students, and health care professionals who are curious to learn more about sexual health. Dr. Brito has been featured on many outlets, including The Oprah Magazine, The Huffington Post, Playboy, Healthline, Women’s Health Magazine,Thrive Global, and Bustle. Her dissertation A phenomenological analysis on infertility in Mexican women living in the United States was published in the Revista Interamericana de Psicologia/Interamerican Journal of Psychology.

Devi Ward Erickson is the Founder of the world’s first and ONLY government accredited school for Tantric sexual healing in the world AND Founder of the world’s first advanced degree in lineage-based Tantric methods for holistic sexual healing (MA in Authentic Tantra).

Devi is a trauma survivor who has overcome and healed sexual and racial trauma through Tantric sexual and non-sexual practice. Devi is an internationally recognized Tantra Healing Expert, Certified Tantric Healer, and ABS Certified Clinical Sexologist. In 2015 Devi completed a 53 hour Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Advocacy Counselor training. Her background includes certification in Reiki and meditation. Devi Ward has been teaching meditation and personal growth workshops since 2000.

Devi is an author and the Host of Sex is Medicine with Devi Ward Podcast on Itunes and tunein.com. She has been featured as a Tantra and Sexuality Expert in countless articles and over 30 different radio and television net-works worldwide including Cosmopolitan Magazine, Ebony Magazine, VH1 Couples Retreat, Playboy Radio, Men’s Health Magazine, CBS, NBC, Rogers TV and the movie Sexology with Gabrielle Anwar and Catherine Oxenberg.

Most recently, Devi was awarded the 2021 AASECT Live Web Series Award and was featured in VH1 “Couples Retreat” (Episode 5,May 24th, 2021), Ebony Magazine , an article on Well + Good and most recently the Cosmo Bridgerton Article!

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