65 episodes

Relationship & Sex Therapist Dr. Tammy Nelson gets up close and personal with leading, sex-positive experts and influencers to examine hot topics and answer your questions about pleasure, sexuality, relationships and the most forbidden aspects of the human experience. 

The Trouble with Sex The Trouble With Sex

    • Health & Fitness

Relationship & Sex Therapist Dr. Tammy Nelson gets up close and personal with leading, sex-positive experts and influencers to examine hot topics and answer your questions about pleasure, sexuality, relationships and the most forbidden aspects of the human experience. 

    Gender Magic

    Gender Magic

    Dr. Tammy sits down with therapist, author and gender specialist Rae McDaniel to talk about the pleasure of self discovery, language and labels around gender, and their book Gender Magic: Live Shamelessly, Reclaim Your Joy, & Step into Your Most Authentic Self.
    DR. TAMMY WANTS TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS about Sex, Love & Relationship and help you with your Trouble with Sex. Send your questions to drtammy@thetroublewithsex.com.

    OUR GUEST
    Rae McDaniel is a licensed therapist, certified sex therapist, gender specialist, coach, educator, and author. They are the Founder and CEO of Practical Audacity, a Gender & Sex Therapy practice in Chicago, Illinois, and the author of the new book,“Gender Magic: Live Shamelessly, Reclaim Your Joy, & Step into Your Most Authentic Self”.

    Gender Magic is a first-of-its-kind practical guide to achieving gender freedom with joy, curiosity, and pleasure for transgender and non-binary individuals, gender explorers, and those who love them--perfect for readers of The Body is Not an Apology and Pleasure Activism.

    **Follow Rae on Instagram @theraemcdaniel


     INTERESTED IN BECOMING a CERTIFIED  SEX THERAPIST?
    Visit ISTI - Integrative Sex Therapy Institute.  If you are already a therapist, find out how to receive your AASECT Sex Therapist Certification. Or, elevate your practice in relational psychotherapy by earning the new Certified Sex and Couples Therapist designation (CSCT).​ AASECT and CSCT renewal and re-certification classes are also offered.
     
    THE TROUBLE WITH SEX RESOURCES, REFERENCES & INFO

    CHECK OUT DR. T'S BOOK - OPEN MONOGAMY!

    · To read more about how to improve your sex life, check out Dr. Tammy's Getting the Sex You Want: Shed Your Inhibitions and Reach New Heights of Passion Together.
    · Learn more about love, marriage, monogamy and how to redefine your commitment to each other in Dr. Tammy's TEDX talk - The New Monogamy






    Follow us on Instagram @thetroublewithsex and doctor_tammynelson

    • 36 min
    What Is Your Blueprint for Pleasure?

    What Is Your Blueprint for Pleasure?

    Dr. Tammy talks with Jaiya, the award-winning somatic sexologist and author of Your Blueprint for Pleasure, about how discovering what turns you on can help you take control of your pleasure, have amazing sex, rekindle the spark in the bedroom, heal past trauma, and empower your relationship and your spirit.

    DR. TAMMY WANTS TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS about Sex, Love & Relationship and help you with your Trouble with Sex. Send your questions to drtammy@thetroublewithsex.com.

    OUR GUEST

    Jaiya is an award -winning somatic sex sexologist, author of books including  Your Blueprint for Pleasure and co-author of Red Hot Touch.  She also starred in Netflix's Sex, Love & goop about what drives sexual attraction, passion and erotic fulfillment.
     Jaiya is also the Founder of the The Erotic Blueprint Breakthrough™ . For over three decades, Jaiya has been immersed in the study of turn-ons, ancient erotic rituals, tantric sex, mastery of sensual touch, pure erotic play, kinky dynamics, and the biology and psychology of attraction and sexual fulfillment. She works with all kinds of bodies and sexual orientations, and through observation and clinical research, she discovered the Erotic Blueprint™, a map of arousal that reveals one’s specific erotic language and patterning and helps create a path forward to greater sexual fulfillment.

    Take the Quiz and find our your Sexual Blueprint now!
     INTERESTED IN BECOMING a CERTIFIED  SEX THERAPIST?
    Visit ISTI - Integrative Sex Therapy Institute.  If you are already a therapist, find out how to receive your AASECT Sex Therapist Certification. Or, elevate your practice in relational psychotherapy by earning the new Certified Sex and Couples Therapist designation (CSCT).​ AASECT and CSCT renewal and re-certification classes are also offered.
     
    THE TROUBLE WITH SEX RESOURCES, REFERENCES & INFO

    CHECK OUT DR. T'S BOOK - OPEN MONOGAMY!

    · To read more about how to improve your sex life, check out Dr. Tammy's Getting the Sex You Want: Shed Your Inhibitions and Reach New Heights of Passion Together.
    · Learn more about love, marriage, monogamy and how to redefine your commitment to each other in Dr. Tammy's TEDX talk - The New Monogamy
    Follow us on Instagram @thetroublewithsex
    Follow us on Instagram @thetroublewithsex and doctor_tammynelson.
    Follow us on Instagram @thetroublewithsex and doctor_tammynelson

    • 45 min
    Dating a Chatbot

    Dating a Chatbot

    Dr. Tammy and Dr. Amy Marsh explore the thrilling positives, as well as the potential emotional pitfalls of AI erotic role play, dating a chatbot and the future of sex...

    DR. TAMMY WANTS TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS about Sex, Love & Relationship and help you with your Trouble with Sex. Send your questions to drtammy@thetroublewithsex.com.

    OUR GUEST
    Dr. Amy Marsh is a clinical sexologist, AASECT-certified sexuality counselor, certified hypnotist,  hypnosis instructor and author of How to Make Love to a Chatbot: The Thinking Human's Guide to AI Erotic Roleplay.
    Dr. Marsh’s private practice combines sexuality counseling with hypnosis, guided imagery, adult sex education, sand tray play, and attention to social justice activism and community wellness.


    Dr. Marsh's research and specialities include:  erotic hypnosis, spectro-sexuality, objectum sexuality, LGBTQIA++ rights, “sacred sexualities,” and more. Dr. Marsh teaches online professional courses in Hypnosis for Sex Problems at zir Intimate Hypnosis Training Center. They also write sex tech articles on the "Bot Beat" for  FutureofSex.net.

    INTERESTED IN BECOMING a CERTIFIED  SEX THERAPIST?
    Visit ISTI - Integrative Sex Therapy Institute.  If you are already a therapist, find out how to receive your AASECT Sex Therapist Certification. Or, elevate your practice in relational psychotherapy by earning the new Certified Sex and Couples Therapist designation (CSCT).​ AASECT and CSCT renewal and re-certification classes are also offered.
     
    THE TROUBLE WITH SEX RESOURCES, REFERENCES & INFO

    CHECK OUT DR. T'S BOOK - OPEN MONOGAMY!

    · To read more about how to improve your sex life, check out Dr. Tammy's Getting the Sex You Want: Shed Your Inhibitions and Reach New Heights of Passion Together.
    · Learn more about love, marriage, monogamy and how to redefine your commitment to each other in Dr. Tammy's TEDX talk - The New Monogamy
    Follow us on Instagram @thetroublewithsex
    Follow us on Instagram @thetroublewithsex and doctor_tammynelson.
    Follow us on Instagram @thetroublewithsex and doctor_tammynelson

    • 38 min
    Working Through Conflicts in Your Relationship

    Working Through Conflicts in Your Relationship

    Dr. Tammy sit downs with one of the world's foremost relationship experts and best-selling author, Dr. Stan Tatkin, to talk about the biology of relationships, the most common conflicts couples face, and how to overcome them in his new book In Each Other's Care. 

    DR. TAMMY WANTS TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS about Sex, Love & Relationship and help you with your Trouble with Sex. Send your questions to drtammy@thetroublewithsex.com.

    OUR GUEST
    Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT, is a best-selling author, clinician, researcher, teacher, and developer of a Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy® (PACT). He has a clinical therapy practice in Calabasas, CA, where he has specialized for the last 15 years in working with couples and individuals who wish to be in relationships. He and his wife, Tracey Boldemann-Tatkin, developed the PACT Institute to train clinicians to help challenging couples find secure-functioning relationships. He is the author of best-selling books In Each Other's Care, We Do, Wired for Love, Wired for Dating and Love and War in Intimate Relationships, as well as the audio books Your Brain on Love and Relationship Rx.
     INTERESTED IN BECOMING a CERTIFIED  SEX THERAPIST?
    Visit ISTI - Integrative Sex Therapy Institute.  If you are already a therapist, find out how to receive your AASECT Sex Therapist Certification. Or, elevate your practice in relational psychotherapy by earning the new Certified Sex and Couples Therapist designation (CSCT).​ AASECT and CSCT renewal and re-certification classes are also offered.
     
    THE TROUBLE WITH SEX RESOURCES, REFERENCES & INFO

    CHECK OUT DR. T'S BOOK - OPEN MONOGAMY!

    · To read more about how to improve your sex life, check out Dr. Tammy's Getting the Sex You Want: Shed Your Inhibitions and Reach New Heights of Passion Together.
    · Learn more about love, marriage, monogamy and how to redefine your commitment to each other in Dr. Tammy's TEDX talk - The New Monogamy
    Follow us on Instagram @thetroublewithsex
    Follow us on Instagram @thetroublewithsex and doctor_tammynelson

    • 39 min
    Better Man

    Better Man

    This episode is not about the Pearl Jam song - well not exactly...  Dr. Tammy talks with therapist and author Eric FitzMedrud about consent, modern masculinities, sex, and how to be a 'Better Man' to build more fulfilling relationships.

    DR. TAMMY WANTS TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS about Sex, Love & Relationship and help you with your Trouble with Sex. Send your questions to drtammy@thetroublewithsex.com.

    OUR GUEST
    Therapist, trainer, and dark chocolate lover Eric FitzMedrud specializes in helping men improve their sex lives by learning to regulate their emotions, removing sexual entitlement, and honing their sexual consent and negotiation skills. FitzMedrud is a member of the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists. He has been published in two academic books and his latest book, The Better Man: A Guide to Consent, Stronger Relationships, and Hotter Sex, offers tools for instruction, healing, and growth. 
     INTERESTED IN BECOMING a CERTIFIED  SEX THERAPIST?
    Visit ISTI - Integrative Sex Therapy Institute.  If you are already a therapist, find out how to receive your AASECT Sex Therapist Certification. Or, elevate your practice in relational psychotherapy by earning the new Certified Sex and Couples Therapist designation (CSCT).​ AASECT and CSCT renewal and re-certification classes are also offered.
     
    THE TROUBLE WITH SEX RESOURCES, REFERENCES & INFO

    CHECK OUT DR. T'S BOOK - OPEN MONOGAMY!

    · To read more about how to improve your sex life, check out Dr. Tammy's Getting the Sex You Want: Shed Your Inhibitions and Reach New Heights of Passion Together.
    · Learn more about love, marriage, monogamy and how to redefine your commitment to each other in Dr. Tammy's TEDX talk - The New Monogamy
    Follow us on Instagram @thetroublewithsex and doctor_tammynelson.
    Follow us on Instagram @thetroublewithsex and doctor_tammynelson

    • 33 min
    Swinging & Other Alternative Relationships

    Swinging & Other Alternative Relationships

    Dr. Tammy talks with podcaster, writer and relationship coach Ginger Bentham about her Life on the Swingset, multi-partnering and how to ethically love outside the 'norm'.

    DR. TAMMY WANTS TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS about Sex, Love & Relationship and help you with your Trouble with Sex. Send your questions to drtammy@thetroublewithsex.com.

    OUR GUEST
    Ginger Bentham is a relationship revolutionary and sexcation provocateur. She is the Co-host of the podcasts Life on the Swingset and Intellectual Foreplay – dedicated to all humans looking to cultivate creative and fulfilling relationships and for those curious to learn about ethical non-monogamy, BDSM, and other erotic adventures of the heart.  With her partner Ryan, Ginger also hosts adventures around the world for curious and intrepid spirits to find their erotic edge and live fully awake.


     INTERESTED IN BECOMING a CERTIFIED  SEX THERAPIST?
    Visit ISTI - Integrative Sex Therapy Institute.  If you are already a therapist, find out how to receive your AASECT Sex Therapist Certification. Or, elevate your practice in relational psychotherapy by earning the new Certified Sex and Couples Therapist designation (CSCT).​ AASECT and CSCT renewal and re-certification classes are also offered.
     
    THE TROUBLE WITH SEX RESOURCES, REFERENCES & INFO

    CHECK OUT DR. T'S BOOK - OPEN MONOGAMY!

    · To read more about how to improve your sex life, check out Dr. Tammy's Getting the Sex You Want: Shed Your Inhibitions and Reach New Heights of Passion Together.
    · Learn more about love, marriage, monogamy and how to redefine your commitment to each other in Dr. Tammy's TEDX talk - The New Monogamy
    Follow us on Instagram @thetroublewithsex and doctor_tammynelson.
    Follow us on Instagram @thetroublewithsex and doctor_tammynelson

    • 44 min

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