Welcome to the Center CD!
Hello and Welcome!
Welcome to our Blog Page and this, our first blog. I’m Cat the practice owner here at The Center but more than that I’m a passionate Sex Educator and Sex Therapist. Together with my expert colleagues and teammates, we are enthusiastic about providing caring, nonjudgmental, supportive services.
So what exactly do we do?
We are psychotherapists who specialize in and provide sex therapy for individuals and sex therapy for couples, we also provide relationship therapy for couples, throuples and more, and we provide psychotherapy focused on sexually-marginalized populations (LGBTQ, queer, poly/ENM, kinky, sex-worker populations). We also do Adult Sex Education both online and in person and we also offer Professional Training.
What is sex therapy?
Sex therapy is for anyone with a sexuality concern or challenge. Really. That’s it. No challenge is “too small” or insignificant. Some challenges may be considered concerns like desire differences between you and your partner. Some challenges may be considered dysfunctions like erectile dysfunction or pain disorders. In any case, the therapists here at The Center CD have years of experience, training, and education in sexuality in addition to our therapeutic clinical degrees.
This detail about our sexuality education is really important because as Doug Braun-Harvey (researcher, author, therapist) noted in a sex therapy training I attended a few years ago, our mental health field is traditionally “sexually illiterate.” This means that most therapy students aren’t required to have taken many or any hours of training in sexuality. However, when you bring yourself to therapy as a client, you bring your WHOLE self, sexuality and all. And when you do, you probably expect that the therapist in front of you has sufficient knowledge, training, and a nonjudgmental sex-positive approach. Here at The Center, we are a group of open-minded, smart, supportive therapists and professional educators who have that deep training and have that needed warm nonjudgmental approach. We can help you connect more deeply with self-care, connection with or pleasure in your body, or connection with your partner relationships.
Our Mission
So what’s our mission? The Mission of The Center CD is to increase sexual self-compassion and sex positivity, radically reduce and challenge sexual shame, build self-empowerment, expand sex-positivity and sexual self-agency, facilitate close connected, intimate relationships, promote pleasure as self-care, expand bodily comfort, love, & compassion, and increase comprehensive knowledge of the diversity of healthy sexuality and expression.
We do this through caring and competent sex therapy, couples therapy, psychotherapy, adult sex education, and professional consulting, development, & training services.
Our purpose and values are to support individuals in being comfortable, confident, joyful and connected in their bodies, their relationships, their sexuality, and their sexual expression.
We are so glad that you found us and that you are here!
In deep gratitude,
