Alex Katehakis, Ph.D., LMFT
@alexkatehakis.bsky.social
Founder of Center For Healthy Sex | Public Speaker | Author | Certified Sex Therapist | Certified Sex Addiction Therapist
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Few interior personal states bear more external social weight than virginity. It's telling that we lose virginity rather than gain sexuality by our initial sexual experience.
October 27, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Few interior personal states bear more external social weight than virginity. It's telling that we lose virginity rather than gain sexuality by our initial sexual experience.
Today notice when and how you use the words 'Always' and 'Never' in conversation, and try to find more exact, realistic terms to describe what you're experiencing.
October 22, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Today notice when and how you use the words 'Always' and 'Never' in conversation, and try to find more exact, realistic terms to describe what you're experiencing.
We cannot regain sexual health—our sexuality—unless we take steps to create the improved conditions that will imprint our brains with healthy patterns.
October 21, 2025 at 4:22 PM
We cannot regain sexual health—our sexuality—unless we take steps to create the improved conditions that will imprint our brains with healthy patterns.
Few interior personal states bear more external social weight than virginity. It's telling that we lose virginity rather than gain sexuality by our initial sexual experience.
October 16, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Few interior personal states bear more external social weight than virginity. It's telling that we lose virginity rather than gain sexuality by our initial sexual experience.
How do you practice empathy in your relationships?
October 13, 2025 at 3:54 PM
How do you practice empathy in your relationships?
Sobriety and recovery often seem interchangeable terms, but are in fact very different. Sexual sobriety means ceasing to act out unhealthy sexual behaviors, while recovery means recapturing one's sexual health.
October 2, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Sobriety and recovery often seem interchangeable terms, but are in fact very different. Sexual sobriety means ceasing to act out unhealthy sexual behaviors, while recovery means recapturing one's sexual health.
Register for free via the link in bio to explore what scares you about sex, sexual insecurities and what to do when shame makes an appearance.
September 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Register for free via the link in bio to explore what scares you about sex, sexual insecurities and what to do when shame makes an appearance.
This 50-minute workshop will provide the s*x addiction basics: Tools, Hope, and a Path Forward
An introduction into compulsive s*xual behaviors, treatment options & recovery tools/resources.
Online | Wednesday, September 10th | 12pm Pacific
Call 424-391-3355 to register! #addictionrecovery
An introduction into compulsive s*xual behaviors, treatment options & recovery tools/resources.
Online | Wednesday, September 10th | 12pm Pacific
Call 424-391-3355 to register! #addictionrecovery
September 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
This 50-minute workshop will provide the s*x addiction basics: Tools, Hope, and a Path Forward
An introduction into compulsive s*xual behaviors, treatment options & recovery tools/resources.
Online | Wednesday, September 10th | 12pm Pacific
Call 424-391-3355 to register! #addictionrecovery
An introduction into compulsive s*xual behaviors, treatment options & recovery tools/resources.
Online | Wednesday, September 10th | 12pm Pacific
Call 424-391-3355 to register! #addictionrecovery
Studies have shown that those who receive "sex ed" actually wait longer to have sex, refuting the feverish notion that information leads to indulgence. Rather, information is empowerment. #sexeducation
August 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Studies have shown that those who receive "sex ed" actually wait longer to have sex, refuting the feverish notion that information leads to indulgence. Rather, information is empowerment. #sexeducation
Since you are solely responsible for your experience, it's healthy to be able to communicate what feels good and what could feel better. When you truly connect with your own erotic feelings and sensations, giving pleasure will begin to feel like receiving pleasure. #eroticintimacy #healthysex
August 11, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Since you are solely responsible for your experience, it's healthy to be able to communicate what feels good and what could feel better. When you truly connect with your own erotic feelings and sensations, giving pleasure will begin to feel like receiving pleasure. #eroticintimacy #healthysex
What does it really mean to live your best sex life?
Whether you're healing from trauma, navigating intimacy challenges, or simply curious to learn more about your desires, this workbook offers an affirming path toward greater connection with yourself and others.
Now available on Amazon.
Whether you're healing from trauma, navigating intimacy challenges, or simply curious to learn more about your desires, this workbook offers an affirming path toward greater connection with yourself and others.
Now available on Amazon.
August 4, 2025 at 7:58 PM
What does it really mean to live your best sex life?
Whether you're healing from trauma, navigating intimacy challenges, or simply curious to learn more about your desires, this workbook offers an affirming path toward greater connection with yourself and others.
Now available on Amazon.
Whether you're healing from trauma, navigating intimacy challenges, or simply curious to learn more about your desires, this workbook offers an affirming path toward greater connection with yourself and others.
Now available on Amazon.
Join me on Monday, August 4th for a free and interactive webinar that will explore fantasy and orgasm challenges!
July 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Join me on Monday, August 4th for a free and interactive webinar that will explore fantasy and orgasm challenges!
Living a life of secrets and lies doesn't allow love and sexuality to flourish but, instead, suffocates them.
July 15, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Living a life of secrets and lies doesn't allow love and sexuality to flourish but, instead, suffocates them.
What does consent mean to you? Do you have a clear definition when it comes to sex?
Join me on Monday, July 14th at 12pm Pacific for a free webinar event where we'll explore the topic of CONSENT from my workbook: What Turns You On?
Link in bio to register! #consent #healthysex
Join me on Monday, July 14th at 12pm Pacific for a free webinar event where we'll explore the topic of CONSENT from my workbook: What Turns You On?
Link in bio to register! #consent #healthysex
July 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM
What does consent mean to you? Do you have a clear definition when it comes to sex?
Join me on Monday, July 14th at 12pm Pacific for a free webinar event where we'll explore the topic of CONSENT from my workbook: What Turns You On?
Link in bio to register! #consent #healthysex
Join me on Monday, July 14th at 12pm Pacific for a free webinar event where we'll explore the topic of CONSENT from my workbook: What Turns You On?
Link in bio to register! #consent #healthysex
HEALTHY SEX: You have to decide what is and isn't healthy for you depending on your past, what you know about yourself today, and what safely brings you pleasure. #MirrorOfIntimacy
June 30, 2025 at 6:18 PM
HEALTHY SEX: You have to decide what is and isn't healthy for you depending on your past, what you know about yourself today, and what safely brings you pleasure. #MirrorOfIntimacy
Boxes marked "male" and "female" are too primitive to contain the limitless flowering of human sexuality. #HappyPride #LGBTQIA2S #GenderDiverse
June 16, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Boxes marked "male" and "female" are too primitive to contain the limitless flowering of human sexuality. #HappyPride #LGBTQIA2S #GenderDiverse
If you’ve discovered a partner’s sexual secrets or infidelity, you may be feeling shattered, confused, & alone.
The Partners Betrayal Trauma Intensive at CHS offers a powerful 5-day program to help you begin making sense of what’s happened & start reclaiming your voice, boundaries, & stability.
The Partners Betrayal Trauma Intensive at CHS offers a powerful 5-day program to help you begin making sense of what’s happened & start reclaiming your voice, boundaries, & stability.
June 11, 2025 at 8:41 PM
If you’ve discovered a partner’s sexual secrets or infidelity, you may be feeling shattered, confused, & alone.
The Partners Betrayal Trauma Intensive at CHS offers a powerful 5-day program to help you begin making sense of what’s happened & start reclaiming your voice, boundaries, & stability.
The Partners Betrayal Trauma Intensive at CHS offers a powerful 5-day program to help you begin making sense of what’s happened & start reclaiming your voice, boundaries, & stability.
Our constitutional freedoms of expression give us the right literally to take to the streets-to demonstrate-when some concern moves us passionately. When we "walk the walk," we get on our feet and prove our desire to make change happen by showing people around us that we mean business.
June 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Our constitutional freedoms of expression give us the right literally to take to the streets-to demonstrate-when some concern moves us passionately. When we "walk the walk," we get on our feet and prove our desire to make change happen by showing people around us that we mean business.
Manipulation denotes a dark desire to control others through deception, coercion and exploitation. This selfish skill takes over when a lover won't conform to our expectations. Our only path out is to embrace wholehearted honesty.
June 4, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Manipulation denotes a dark desire to control others through deception, coercion and exploitation. This selfish skill takes over when a lover won't conform to our expectations. Our only path out is to embrace wholehearted honesty.
Be careful not to compare yourself and your partner to images. If you watch pornography, make sure it’s additive to your experience and your psyche, not degrading or debilitating to your sexuality or to your self.
May 28, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Be careful not to compare yourself and your partner to images. If you watch pornography, make sure it’s additive to your experience and your psyche, not degrading or debilitating to your sexuality or to your self.
Patterns: You can train your brain to reset its patterns. Pick a simple goal such as exercising, deep breathing, or feeling your feelings, and spend just ten minutes a day in gentle practice in order to repattern. #MirrorOfIntimacy
May 23, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Patterns: You can train your brain to reset its patterns. Pick a simple goal such as exercising, deep breathing, or feeling your feelings, and spend just ten minutes a day in gentle practice in order to repattern. #MirrorOfIntimacy
Sexual energy is a creative force in our lives and contributes to the well-being of all--meaning that when you're vitally engaged and living a full life, others around you feel it and can be inspired to do the same.
May 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Sexual energy is a creative force in our lives and contributes to the well-being of all--meaning that when you're vitally engaged and living a full life, others around you feel it and can be inspired to do the same.
Truthfully any sexual problems, whether physical or psychological, are health problems. As a society we have much work to do in order to restore the concept of sexual health to its own state of health. #sexualhealth #healthysexuality
May 2, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Truthfully any sexual problems, whether physical or psychological, are health problems. As a society we have much work to do in order to restore the concept of sexual health to its own state of health. #sexualhealth #healthysexuality
Addiction is a disease of isolation, sequestering our souls from ourselves, from others, and from reality. #sexaddiction #loveaddiction
April 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Addiction is a disease of isolation, sequestering our souls from ourselves, from others, and from reality. #sexaddiction #loveaddiction
Join me on May 5th at 12pm PST for a free & interactive webinar on Unhealthy vs. Healthy Sex & how understanding the difference can help you reclaim your body as a source of comfort, pleasure, and eroticism.
Link in bio
Link in bio
April 21, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Join me on May 5th at 12pm PST for a free & interactive webinar on Unhealthy vs. Healthy Sex & how understanding the difference can help you reclaim your body as a source of comfort, pleasure, and eroticism.
Link in bio
Link in bio