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Originally Posted by scorpiosis37
Actually, SHE HERSELF says it is all about sexual arousal and male desire on her website. I am taking her at her word.
This is the FIRST sentence on her website:
"Naked Therapy is an experience that combines elements from positive and person-centered talk therapy, experiential therapy, and creative play therapy, with the added component of the client and/or therapist getting naked to facilitate more honest and unique insights through the experience of arousal."
Then she goes on to say: "in Naked Therapy the patient and therapist also engage in arousal-enhancing conversations and activities."
"Naked Therapy is different for every patient because it is based on the patient’s arousal, which is always personal and unique."
Then, she explains the kinds of (primarily sexual/relational) problems that have brought her clients to Naked therapy:
"different patients seek Naked Therapy for different reasons. Some are single and they’re trying to get better at meeting someone significant. Some are married and they’re looking for someone new to talk to. Some are having sexual or relationship problems and want help working through them. Some lack confidence around the opposite sex and need to practice and improve in that area. Some have unresolved issues from childhood that are keeping them from realizing their full potential. Some are frustrated and simply need to vent. Some are dealing with pornography addiction and want to overcome that. Some merely want to express themselves and engage in thoughtful conversation with someone who listens. Some are just curious. And some are interested in taking a long, fascinating journey through their arousal."
Then she lists some (again, sexual) goals that she helps her clients work on:
"- Achieving a more satisfying sex life
- Improving intimate relationships
- Understanding and resolving feelings about porn use
- Seeing positively and harnessing the power of masturbation"
I find it problematic that she helps her clients who have porn addictions resolve their FEELINGS about their excessive porn use, rather than explore what has led to the addiction or try to reduce the behavior. She talks more about this later on-- about how the FEELINGS of guilt are the problem, not the addiction. After all, isn't watching her undress feeding their addiction? I should probably also mention that I have no problem with porn itself-- I have a problem when it (or anything) becomes an uncontrollable addiction that interferes with one's ability to function in daily life. And I have a problem with "therapists" enabling clients' maladaptive behaviors.
Finally, her homepage has a 5-paragraph section under the bolded heading:
What’s So Important About Arousal?
http://sarahwhitetherapy.com/naked-therapy
Feel free to read it in its entirety.
Perhaps this post is a bit of quote-overkill, but I wanted to make it clear that my comments were in fact well-founded, and based on the Naked Therapist's own words. |
Yes she does state it is a part of the therapy. The sexual arousal is an added component, not the sole purpose of the therapy. You are picking one aspect of the therapy and labeling it evil. Your statements may have been based on the facts but just the facts that you choose. You only seem to make comments on the sexual part in Bold letters. It is not a total sexual experience except for those that seek her out for that, which is a shame. Some of these people that are being treated for sexual problems may have had bad experiences with puritanical people that see things only one way. Nude bodies and sexuality are bad. Are sexual problems only physical, NO. These people that she treats may have trouble with sexuality because of inadaquicies introduced by people that see sexuality in any form as bad or evil.
As far as being certified. Just as she stated if she got certification she would have wasted her time and money because she would have lost her certification. I'm not going to waste time compiling a list of people with out degrees or certification that have gone on to do great things from industry to medicine. Just because someone has a piece of paper doesn't mean they know what they're talking about. I work in the electrical field and find my self educating and correcting engineers and technicians with pieces of paper. I supervised people in the NAVY that out ranked me on a regular basis, even though they had a higher rank and a piece of paper to boot.
Stop looking at her therapy with blinders on and see the whole picture. With all the free porn sites and web chats why would someone spend $200.00 and hour when they could spend a lot less on the internent chat rooms. Obviuosly there is more going on than sexual arousal here, but if thats all you want to see then thats your choice intentionally or subconsiously.
"Naked Therapy is an experience that combines elements from positive and person-centered talk therapy, experiential therapy, and creative play therapy, with the added component of the client and/or therapist getting naked to facilitate more honest and unique insights
through the experience of arousal