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The Surrogate Partner Therapy Episode
Manage episode 333539695 series 2965418
Would you pay someone to teach you how to be sexual and intimate? Some people do! Surrogate partners work with clients to learn their bodies and how to have consensual, boundaried, erotic contact with others. Brian Gibney of bgsurrogatetherapy.com talks about touch, legality, and a misleading movie related to surrogate partner therapy.
1:00 he helps people learn to be sexual and intimate
4:00 Cheryl Cohen Greene sounds awesome
6:00 reasons why people seek out a surrogate partner
10:00 what is the training process like?
13:00 examples of boundary exercises
15:00 people cry a LOT
18:00 teaching people how to say No and Yes confidently
23:00 freedom to be yourself
26:00 some clients are not in distress, others are
29:00 challenges of the surrogate partner work
32:00 clients may fall in love and experience an ending
35:00 yes it affects how we do dating as providers
39:00 your host cries again here
44:00 do clients have to be attractive?
47:00 how can LMFTs work with surrogate partners?
53:00 on Brian’s deceased son with disabilities
58:00 life should be less painful
Find your host on Twitter.com/ellestanger
Follow your host onPatreon.com/strangebedfellows for just $1 a month
Find our guest at briangibney.org
85 episodes
Manage episode 333539695 series 2965418
Would you pay someone to teach you how to be sexual and intimate? Some people do! Surrogate partners work with clients to learn their bodies and how to have consensual, boundaried, erotic contact with others. Brian Gibney of bgsurrogatetherapy.com talks about touch, legality, and a misleading movie related to surrogate partner therapy.
1:00 he helps people learn to be sexual and intimate
4:00 Cheryl Cohen Greene sounds awesome
6:00 reasons why people seek out a surrogate partner
10:00 what is the training process like?
13:00 examples of boundary exercises
15:00 people cry a LOT
18:00 teaching people how to say No and Yes confidently
23:00 freedom to be yourself
26:00 some clients are not in distress, others are
29:00 challenges of the surrogate partner work
32:00 clients may fall in love and experience an ending
35:00 yes it affects how we do dating as providers
39:00 your host cries again here
44:00 do clients have to be attractive?
47:00 how can LMFTs work with surrogate partners?
53:00 on Brian’s deceased son with disabilities
58:00 life should be less painful
Find your host on Twitter.com/ellestanger
Follow your host onPatreon.com/strangebedfellows for just $1 a month
Find our guest at briangibney.org
85 episodes
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