You Got Choices

11/12/2019

WOW! 900 likes. I rarely touch this page, since my life is just too full. But - what would you like to see more of? What s*xuality choices would you like to read about? What navigation of s*x and intimacy would be cool to read about?

11/12/2019

Hi, I am a new clinician, LCSW, at the Institute for Emerging Adulthood, with offices in Northampton and Amherst. And -- I have availability to accept new clients! (I know it's a rare find around here!)
I employ a psychodynamic, cultural-relational lens and am LGBTQ affirming, healing focused, and trauma informed. I also am trained as a couple therapist and am a certified s*x educator.
I am most interested in receiving referrals for couple therapy, LGBTQ individuals and/or couples/relationship polycules, s*x and intimacy therapy, kink dynamics, non-monogamy, as well as anyone facing anxiety and life transitions.
You can read more about me on my Psychology Today profile https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/shanna-fishel-northampton-ma/702898

If interested, please call the intake line at (413) 497-7100, extension 499. It is recommended that you email Rachel Locke, who is managing intake, at:
rachel @ instituteforemergingadulthood.com

Our full fee is $150-$85 per weekly session. You can read the blurb on our website regarding insurance https://www.instituteforemergingadulthood.com/insurance . Any questions about this or how you may access out of network benefits, can be done through out intake process.

Shanna Fishel, Clinical Social Work/Therapist, Northampton, MA, 01060, (413) 628-2052, Some seek therapy as a way to discover a new way of being. As you navigate your life, my intention is to offer clinical perspectives that may help you work through concerns, highlight your purpose, and your pleasu...

06/18/2019

S*x talk today.
Gotta watch it. Who teaches who?
How does s*x talk look at your home? How far from reality?

A father realizes that he should’ve done his homework before trying to talk to his son about the birds and the bees. About Alternatino: Alternatino is a sket...

06/08/2019

Notice: lawsuit against PreP!

"housands and thousands of HIV/AIDS patients may have been unwittingly exposed to significant kidney and bone damage from TDF as a component of their ostensibly lifesaving antiretroviral drug regimens—all manufactured and sold by Gilead. In addition, many HIV-negative individuals seeking to prevent HIV acquisition may have suffered similar harm to their kidneys or bones from taking Truvada as part of their PrEP protocol."

Press release content from Business Wire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation.

06/03/2019

Hooray! Love yourself, you are welcomed! 🌈

05/15/2019

Alabama passed gag rule on near total abortion ban. No words can express the horror. Choice and body autonomy is slipping away, one state at a time.
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The legislation is the most restrictive anti-abortion measure passed since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973

04/04/2019

S*xuality and disability. Great video for teens!

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This video represents young people with disabilities and educates their peers.

03/17/2019

Fu***ng Trans Women

Some great info about how to finger trans c***s, or inguinal canals of someone with a p***s.

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The groundbreaking zine 'Fu***ng Trans Women' has been an invaluable resource for trans women for nearly a decade. We revisit one particularly illuminating section explaining how to finger the inguinal canals of someone with a p***s.

03/04/2019

B**M is more than play.

Decrease anxiety and stress, improve relationship and communication, and it goes beyond the scene. Now science backs it all up.
I f* #! love science.

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Studies devoted to B**M have shown that being kinky may have health benefits. Learn more about how B**M affects your health.

02/27/2019

Its not the p**n that makes you bi, its that p**n watchers are more aware of their s*xual template and realized that more than one gender gets them turned on. Correlation is not causation.

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Watching p**n might make you bis*xual. At least that seems to be the takeaway from a study released by the online p**n portal xHamster. Dubbed the xHamster “Report on Digital S*xuality”…