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She's Back! Sex Therapy 101 | Sex PharmD · Pharmacy Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: You are listening to the global network of podcasters dedicated
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  Speaker 1: to the pharmacy profession. Welcome to the Pharmacy Podcast Network.
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  Speaker 2: This is the sex pharm d podcast with your host,
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  Speaker 2: Doctor Nadia Archimbaald, licensed clinical pharmacist and certified sex therapist
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  Speaker 2: with a focus on women's sexual health and wellness. Doctor
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  Speaker 2: A is here to cover important health topics and answer
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  Speaker 2: all of your questions about subjects that can be applied
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  Speaker 2: to pharmacy practice. And now here's doctor A.
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  Speaker 3: Hello everyone, I am so excited to be back on
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  Speaker 3: Pharmacy Podcast Network.
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  Speaker 4: I am your host of Sex farm D. My name
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  Speaker 4: is doctor Nadilla Archambeau.
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  Speaker 3: I am also a certified sex therapist, so I am.
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  Speaker 4: So excited to just be here and doing this again.
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  Speaker 4: I took a little hiatus, but I am back.
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  Speaker 3: So I wanted the first episode to be a review
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  Speaker 3: again of sex therapy.
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  Speaker 4: So what is sex therapy?
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  Speaker 3: So basically, sex therapy is talk therapy used for individuals
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  Speaker 3: or couples, and it can be related to a various
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  Speaker 3: number of things such as intimacy, sexual function, desire, communication
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  Speaker 3: between couples, or just.
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  Speaker 4: The dynamics in a relationship. So no actual physical.
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  Speaker 3: Contact occurs in sessions. That's a big misconception. You know,
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  Speaker 3: people aren't using sex toys in the session or anything
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  Speaker 3: like that. It's simply just talk therapy. I consider myself
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  Speaker 3: a coach, so it doesn't limit my practice, and I've
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  Speaker 3: been seeing patients via telehealth for the most part, and
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  Speaker 3: it's been very rewarding for me, given I had a
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  Speaker 3: history with compounding pharmacy, talking to a lot of individuals
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  Speaker 3: about hormone replacement therapy, low libido medications for.
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  Speaker 4: Both men and women.
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  Speaker 3: So this kind of combines everything that I've done in
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  Speaker 3: my pharmacy practice.
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  Speaker 4: And I really love doing it.
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  Speaker 3: It's extremely rewarding for me, and I've seen individuals and
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  Speaker 3: couples really progress and change. So as far as specific
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  Speaker 3: things that I've talked about with couples or individuals, so
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  Speaker 3: first individual sometimes UH, an individual may come to me
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  Speaker 3: with low libido or sexual desire. I deal mostly with
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  Speaker 3: females on this, but there are males that I've seen
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  Speaker 3: in in couples situations. UH. And then on as far
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  Speaker 3: as woman's health goes, I've specialized in women who have
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  Speaker 3: vaginismus or pain UH via any type of insertion. I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to be doing an episode that's specifically dedicated just
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  Speaker 3: to that. There's also anxieties that develop around sex or
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  Speaker 3: just navigating your sexual identity or orientation. UH. As far
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  Speaker 3: as with couples, there can be a lot of different
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  Speaker 3: things such as communication. That's that's a big barrier, an
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  Speaker 3: emotional disconnection between couples, UH, and that can that can
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  Speaker 3: cause issues around intimacy. And then also you know women
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  Speaker 3: get older, we go through perry menopause, menopause, post metopause.
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  Speaker 4: That's a big hot topic.
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  Speaker 3: Now I'm going to be taking some deeper dives into
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  Speaker 3: that and some other episodes that can have an effect
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  Speaker 3: on your sex life for sure. So the first thing
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  Speaker 3: usually in a session, the first thing I do with patients.
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  Speaker 4: Is I go through what their chief.
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  Speaker 3: Complaint is as we would as we would pharmacists would
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  Speaker 3: look at it first.
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  Speaker 4: But basically why are they there? Go through I go through.
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  Speaker 3: Like their medical background, what their relationship status is, like
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  Speaker 3: what's going on there? The first thing I always ask
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  Speaker 3: them is when was your last doctor's appointment for a
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  Speaker 3: physical lab work?
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  Speaker 4: Things like that.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes that's something I need to review with patients because
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  Speaker 3: that may.
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  Speaker 4: Be having an effect on their.
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  Speaker 3: Basically, Like, for example, if a patient comes to me
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  Speaker 3: and they have low thyroid, that could be affecting your
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  Speaker 3: your sexual desire and your libido. High cholesterol is another one.
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  Speaker 3: I've seen that a lot in males, and then of
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  Speaker 3: course hormones, So there's a lot of different factors that
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  Speaker 3: come into play.
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  Speaker 4: And then I'd like to.
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  Speaker 3: Also educate the patient and that's a big part of
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  Speaker 3: sex therapy. Also, you're educating them on any information and
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  Speaker 3: anything related to their sexual health. And then I always
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  Speaker 3: give an individual or couples homework exercises, and that could
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  Speaker 3: be a whole different range of things. From one homework
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  Speaker 3: exercise could be just be schedule an obgyn appointment and
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  Speaker 3: have your labs check. That's your first order of business
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  Speaker 3: for it could be a communication exercise, things like that.
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  Speaker 4: So there's a lot of different there's a lot of moving.
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  Speaker 3: Parts in sex therapy, which is why it interests me
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  Speaker 3: so much. Also a big myth is that is sex
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  Speaker 3: therapy just for serious problems.
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  Speaker 4: The answer to that is no.
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  Speaker 3: Some people are already feeling pretty good in a relationship,
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  Speaker 3: but maybe they're seeking a deeper emotional connection or just
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  Speaker 3: feeling more confident overall, maybe they're going through a life transition,
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  Speaker 3: uh that they're navigating, so they need some help with that.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, as far.
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  Speaker 5: As sex therapy goes, the biggest goal is to feel
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  Speaker 5: a sense of connecting again with yourself first.
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  Speaker 4: And then with your partner.
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  Speaker 3: So that's that's really the biggest takeaway with sex therapy.
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  Speaker 3: So I just wanted to give a little a little
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  Speaker 3: rundown of what sex therapy is or sex therapy one
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  Speaker 3: on one for our new listeners, for returning listeners, I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to be having some.
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  Speaker 4: Topics that we haven't talked about yet.
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  Speaker 3: And then I also wanted to just go through one
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  Speaker 3: of the first exercises I have someone do when we
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  Speaker 3: get through medical history background and things like that, is
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  Speaker 3: to do the love language quiz.
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  Speaker 4: There's different websites out.
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  Speaker 3: There where you can do it, and there's five love languages.
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  Speaker 3: So we have words of affirmation, quality time, receiving gifts,
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  Speaker 3: acts of service, and physical touch. I think they should
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  Speaker 3: add a sixth one, which is personal space.
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  Speaker 4: I think some people really value their alone time.
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  Speaker 3: That definitely came about more so during COVID, when couples
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  Speaker 3: were home to one four to seven around them.
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  Speaker 4: Around each other and they needed some personal space. So
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  Speaker 4: I think that eventually they should add that one too.
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  Speaker 4: So words of affirmation, so that is.
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  Speaker 3: Through the spoken word praise or appreciation. Some people are
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  Speaker 3: just needing that type of affirmation and that's their love language.
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  Speaker 3: Quality time, giving that other person your undivided attention, receiving gifts,
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  Speaker 3: so this doesn't have to be anything expensive, but it's
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  Speaker 3: just receiving a present that shows thought, that shows you
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  Speaker 3: were thinking of them.
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  Speaker 4: Acts of service. This is doing a.
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  Speaker 3: Helpful thing like for example, filling up your partner's gas tank,
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  Speaker 3: or getting them their favorite coffee, or even just making
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  Speaker 3: them their favorite coffee. It's not about with the acts
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  Speaker 3: of service, it's not about the money behind it, it's
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  Speaker 3: about the thought also behind it. And then we have
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  Speaker 3: physical touch. So physical closeness does not have to necessarily
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  Speaker 3: be sex, just maybe hugs, kissing, hand holding.
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  Speaker 4: The power of touch can be very powerful.
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  Speaker 3: So everyone has their primary love language is usually a
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  Speaker 3: primary and a secondary. So the thing that I tell
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  Speaker 3: a person to do is to take the love language
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  Speaker 3: quiz because it helps them understand really how they operate,
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  Speaker 3: you know, what makes them feel good as an individual.
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  Speaker 4: And then for couples.
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  Speaker 3: It's great because sometimes it's eye opening where they didn't
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  Speaker 3: realize the person, for example, was an act of service
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  Speaker 3: love language and this is interesting too a lot of couples,
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  Speaker 3: so you'll tend to gravitate towards giving your partner the
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  Speaker 3: love language that you prefer. So, for example, if your
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  Speaker 3: love language is physical touch, you're going to be touchy
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  Speaker 3: feeling with that person thinking that's what they want to
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  Speaker 3: because how could they not because that's something that is
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  Speaker 3: your primary love language. However, that may not be the
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  Speaker 3: case for them, and sometimes that often creates a feeling
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  Speaker 3: of rejection. So that's why it's important too to understand
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  Speaker 3: and know that other persons love language.
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  Speaker 4: So that's one.
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  Speaker 3: Of the first exercises and homework pieces I have individuals
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  Speaker 3: and couples do. So as you listeners, I would like
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  Speaker 3: you to complete the love language quiz and it could
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  Speaker 3: actually shock you.
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  Speaker 4: I will post a link to get to the love.
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  Speaker 3: Language quiz in the show notes, so you have a
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  Speaker 3: good idea of where to find it so you don't
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  Speaker 3: have to search all over Google. But that's one that
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  Speaker 3: I particularly really love to have other couples and individuals do. So. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: So I'm excited for a really interesting lineup of guest
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  Speaker 3: speakers that I have.
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  Speaker 4: I'm also going.
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  Speaker 3: To have a segment where I rate a product, and
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  Speaker 3: I'll be dropping that little episode snippet as well.
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  Speaker 4: That's going to be before each episode.
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  Speaker 3: I'm thinking of calling it RX meter, but I love
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  Speaker 3: your opinion too. I was thinking farm or harm, but
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  Speaker 3: I think I like RX meters, so we might end
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  Speaker 3: up going with that one so I can rate it.
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  Speaker 4: On a scale.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, I'll be taking a deep dive into different
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  Speaker 3: products that I've heard about over the counter or prescription
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  Speaker 3: related to sexual health and wellness, and I'll be giving
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  Speaker 3: my opinion and rating on.
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  Speaker 4: It, so I think that might be helpful also. So
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  Speaker 4: I hope you all enjoyed this little.
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  Speaker 3: Mini episode introduction again and I'm looking forward to having
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  Speaker 3: all of you listen in on some of the amazing
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  Speaker 3: top fis and speakers that I have lined up for you.
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  Speaker 3: I hope you all have a beautiful day.