Kinks are rarely just preferences. They are often eroticized adaptations  — ways the psyche and body learned to manage power, attachment, shame, and unmet needs when direct resolution wasn’t available. From a depth-oriented and trauma-informed perspective, desire frequently organizes itself around unresolved emotional material — not because someone is broken, but because the nervous system is attempting completion. Erotic Patterning as Meaning-Making Arousal is not neutral. It forms at the...

Surrogate partner therapy is a form of therapy in which a therapist & a surrogate partner work with a client to explore and overcome...

Codependency has a variety of definitions however, I would like to pose the idea that we are not just codependent with our partners, but...