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Betrayal Trauma: Helping Couples Rebuild Connection (from PESI-UK)

Note: This was originally published at PESI-UK. You can read the original blog here. What are the tasks for couple therapy in the wake of...

Sex & News: Sex Toy Awareness Growing

You need to add a widget, row, or prebuilt layout before you’ll see anything here. 🙂 Sometimes market predictors can reflect what we see...

Guiding Couples through Fantasies and Discussions on the Open Monogamy Continuum

Recently Kristen Bell shared with Upworthy how her husband, actor Dax Shepard, is able to openly share with her who he finds attractive –...

A Statement from Tammy Nelson, Ph.D., Director of the Integrative Sex Therapy Institute (ISTI), abou

The staff and faculty at the Integrative Sex Therapy Institute (ISTI) have been carefully monitoring the news around the repeal of Roe...

Open Monogamy vs Radical Monogamy: Are They the Same Thing?

Nick Levine recently wrote in Vice Magazine What Is ‘Radical Monogamy’? Reflexive monogamy is an assumption we make that we’ll find our...

Does therapy really help an emotional relationship?

Being in a relationship is the most challenging part of being alive. We struggle to connect and at the same time, we want the freedom to...

3 Things to Consider About Open Monogamy

Open monogamy is in the public eye now more than ever before. We have seen couples like Will and Jada Pinkett Smith talk about their...

The Fairytale

Excerpt from Open Monogamy: A Guide to Co-Creating Your Ideal Relationship Agreement By Tammy Nelson, Ph.D. Being a couple does not make...

Trauma, Affair, & Recovery: You Are Not Alone

When you discover that your partner cheated on you, it can feel like your world is ending. You rewrite the whole history of your...