Are You (Living With or) Divorcing a Narcissist?
It doesn’t really matter if they’re diagnosed or not (they rarely are). A person with narcissistic traits/tendencies/ issue may be (almost) as difficult to deal with in real life, so it doesn’t really matter. Narcissism is on a spectrum and a matter of degree. We’re all just a little bit narcissistic, aren’t we? What we’re…
Read MoreManage Your Stress in 2020
I recently listened to a few podcasts that talked about stress reduction and thought there were a lot of good ideas. I have been working closely with all of them myself and will attempt to share these ideas in hopes that you will find them helpful too. Reducing stress in our lives is so important. …
Read MoreTake care of YOU!
It is so very important that we all take care of ourselves. No one else is going to do it. When we don’t, we ultimately run ourselves into the ground. This is a healthy reminder that seems to return over and over around the holiday season. It is especially needed for women, but truly it…
Read MoreGender & Healthcare: Part IV
Microaggressions & Culturally Competent Healthcare As healthcare providers for transgender, gender non-conforming or gender non-binary people, it is extremely important to continue learning about the population you treat because terminology and other things are changing constantly. It isn’t necessary to be perfect or never make mistakes, but it is important to be understanding of the…
Read MoreGender & Healthcare: Part III
Terminology In the area of gender and healthcare, please know that terminology is changing daily and there is no way to be up on all the latest terms all the time. You can only do the best you can to attempt to stay connected to the community and respond to terminology changes and additions long the…
Read MoreGender & Healthcare: Part II
As a healthcare provider, I notice where we drop the ball and don’t provide the best healthcare to many people. I also recognize several areas where we can make pretty simple changes for a large impact the transgender, gender non-binary (GNB) and gender non-conforming (GNC) population.
Read MoreGender & Healthcare: Part I
This is the first in a series of blog posts that will cover several ways in which healthcare workers can help make the healthcare experience more comfortable, safer, and accessible for transgender, gender non-conforming, and non-binary individuals.
Read MoreCourage over Comfort
Kimberly Atwood is a gender-affirming therapist with experience and passion on this topic. She would like to help other healthcare workers become more aware of their own biases; how they may hurt without meaning to; while also giving them tools to help gender nonconforming people feel more safe, comfortable and welcome.
Read MoreWomen & Painful Sex: Treatments
…different types of painful intercourse, but most importantly with each of these types of pain, relaxation, mindfulness, and more playfulness are key.
Kimberly Atwood is a licensed psychotherapist and certified sex therapist specializing in women’s sexual health, intimacy and relationship issues. She works in private practice in Princeton, NJ and provides online therapy with clients across the country (IN, MA, NJ, NY, PA). For more information, please check out her website.
Read MoreWomen & Painful Sex: Definitions
Pain or discomfort during intercourse may be diagnosed as dyspareunia, vaginismus or vulvadinia in women.
Kimberly Atwood is a licensed psychotherapist and certified sex therapist specializing in sexual health, intimacy and relationship issues. She works in private practice in Princeton, NJ and provides online therapy with clients across the country (IN, MA, NJ, NY, PA). For more information, please check out her website.
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