Andrea Glik, LMSW is a psychotherapist, somatic healer, and sex educator. Andrea specializes in treating trauma and PTSD for women, survivors, and queer & trans folks, utilizing body based and feminist therapy practices to help clients come home to themselves. Andrea practices on occupied Lenape territory (colonized as NYC) and can also be found on Instagram @somaticwitch. In this episode, Andrea gives us a primer on some of the key aspects of her work: attachment styles and somatic healing. We talk about how healing can happen through BDSM and sex, small ways to enhance intimacy and pleasure, and lots more. Throughout the conversation Andrea shares some wonderfully tangible tools and exercises, which I hope you'll find as useful as I did! (more…)