somatics – The Sexologist https://the-sexologist.com Agnes Silvani Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:12:12 +0000 de hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://the-sexologist.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/S-big.svg somatics – The Sexologist https://the-sexologist.com 32 32 Treating the Nervous System Before You Treat the Symptom https://the-sexologist.com/nervous-system-before-symptom/ Tue, 16 Jun 2026 10:31:23 +0000 https://the-sexologist.com/?p=172241 A client presents with a symptom — pain, avoidance, numbing out, an arousal that switches off the moment things get close. The reflex is to treat the symptom: psychoeducation, sensate focus, a behavioural plan. Sometimes that works. When it stalls, it is often because the symptom was never the problem. It was a nervous system doing precisely what a threatened or shut-down state requires…

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]]> The Countertransference No One Trained You to Notice in Sex Therapy https://the-sexologist.com/countertransference-sex-therapy/ Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:30:58 +0000 https://the-sexologist.com/?p=172239 Generalist training teaches countertransference as a largely cognitive event: notice your reaction, reflect on it, bring it to supervision. Sex therapy adds a complication nobody quite prepares you for, which is that your reactions arrive in the body — sometimes as arousal, sometimes as disgust, sometimes as an urgent wish to fix a client’s pain — and they arrive before any reflection is possible.

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