May 31, 2020
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Natasha interviews Dr. Doug Braun-Harvey for part three in a 6-part series series to discuss the principles of Sexual Health, developed by the World Health Organization.
The fourth principle of “honesty” is discussed in length and detail. Why is a value most of us have sometimes so difficult to practice? What types of things get in the way of sexual honesty? Honesty requires vulnerability and vulnerability requires safety. But what if what you’re trying to share doesn’t feel safe to the recipient of the information?
Douglas Braun-Harvey is a sexual health author, trainer and psychotherapist. Doug is a co-founder of the The Harvey Institute, an international education, training, consulting and supervision service for Improving health care through integration of sexual health. He teaches and trains nationally and internationally linking sexual health principles within drug and alcohol treatment, group psychotherapy, HIV prevention and treatment, and child maltreatment. Previous publications include “Sexual Health in Recovery: Professional Counselor’s Manual” (2011) and “Sexual Health in Drug and Alcohol Treatment: Group Facilitator’s Manual”(2009). Doug is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Certified Group Psychotherapist and Certified Sex Therapist. He currently serves as Treasurer of AASECT and, as an alumni of the University of Minnesota, to join their Advisory Board for the Program in Human Sexuality in which he is a founding donor of the Doug Braun-Harvey Fellowship in Compulsive Sexual Behavior. He has been providing individual and group therapy in his San Diego private practice since 1987.