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What strategies do you use to engage clients and help them feel comfortable talking about sensitive topics like sex and masturbation?

A recent study looking at individuals’ masturbation habits over time found that patterns were usually pretty stable over a person’s lifetime and were not significantly impacted by romantic partnerships or frequency of partnered sex.

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What are some trainings you’ve attended that have felt meaningful in building your own competence with trans concerns? What kinds of training would you want to attend next?

Supporting clients with trans-affirming mental healthcare is especially important right now as increasing discrimination and anti-trans legislation raise rates of psychological distress and suicide attempts even higher in our community.

New research suggests that taking even one additional training outside of general coursework significantly improved skills and confidence among clinicians with -In Training licenses, especially folks who don’t have personal experience or familiarity with trans and queer identities.

What approaches have you found useful in helping clients navigate exploring and sharing their experiences?

This study also confirmed that for both men and women, having a shared perspective and sense of "we-ness" in a relationship is important to long-term sexual satisfaction.
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Researchers recently documented patterns around use of sex as a coping strategy for managing emotional difficulties and found that while men were in general more likely to use sex in this way, women were more likely to do so when they reported low levels of emotional awareness and regulation.