Sexual health is a human right. It is designed to be pleasurable, satisfying, and safe — but that is not how it is experienced by many. 

Anxiety, sexual distress, dissatisfaction, and dysfunction are quite common and can affect your quality of life and relationship satisfaction. You are not alone if you are experiencing strain with any aspect of your sexuality. These problems can cause feelings of shame, and resentment, and even lead to significant relationship distress — especially if they go unaddressed.

Here at Kimberly Keiser & Associates, we want you to know it’s possible to address these problems in a safe, science-based way to not only decrease your sexual distress but improve your quality of life. Our licensed psychotherapists provide in-person and telehealth individual and couples sessions and in-person targeted group psychotherapy. 

But what if you are not ready or able to attend therapy at this time? Or what if you’re a provider who would like to supplement your own therapeutic toolbox with evidenced-based sex therapy programs? Or what if you’re interested in personal development and just want targeted sexual health information? MendEd is for you. 

Who’s Behind MendEd?

Kimberly Keiser is the founder of MendEd, a licensed psychotherapist, AASECT-certified sex therapist, and EMDRIA-certified EMDR therapist specializing in sex and trauma therapy.

She has worked with hundreds of patients over the past decade helping them address all types of sexual concerns related to distress and dysfunction.

While working across the spectrum of sexual health concerns, she discovered that no matter what you might be dealing with there are research-based methods and exercises that form the foundation for breaking free of sexual distress and dysfunction and help you work towards being healthy and satisfied sexuality.

Why Take a MendEd Course?

Far too often professional disciplines are siloed and information not only doesn’t get translated across professionals but does not reach the general public. MendEd is a sexual health education-oriented bridge between professional scientists conducting and publishing research, clinical therapists utilizing established theory and research in practice, and the general public. The mission of MendEd is to make evidence-based comprehensive sex education and sexual health strategies widely available to clinicians and the public to support and foster sexual health across the world. 

Many people who seek help for problems with sexual functioning carry shame are unsure of where to start and often feel alone. Others simply don’t have access to quality education or therapeutic services. Through MendEd courses, we will start to explore and learn foundational strategies to help overcome problems associated with sexual functioning and related distress. 

Your sexuality is a deeply personal part of your life. Our courses are here to support you, without judgment and guide you toward a deeper awareness of your own sexual and mental health. 

Many people who have sexual concerns are focused on the end goal, but good sex isn’t about the ending, it’s about the process. For that reason, courses will focus on your process. You can go through this content and do the exercises from the comfort of your own home, on your own schedule, and progress at the exact pace that’s comfortable for you.

Our First Course

Our platform launch course is designed to provide key pathways to sexual function, connection, and pleasure by understanding how sexual functioning works. As you work through the systematic process in this course, physical symptoms you may have will give way to a narrative understanding that holds the key to symptom relief. 

You’ll be able to notice how the various components of a negative feedback loop encompassing a number of critical touchpoints inform the thoughts and emotions that have created or maintained your sexual distress or dysfunction — and how you can address them.

This isn’t a replacement for therapy and you are encouraged to see a therapist while taking this course. This course is meant to be educational and experiential and start you on a journey toward improved sexual health. 

The goal of this course is to help you start understanding sexual distress and dysfunctions, learn mindfulness principles and exercises, understand your negative feedback loop, and start working toward healthy sexuality with a positive feedback flow.

What You’ll Learn

As a sex therapist, Kimberly Keiser is actively involved in helping people develop an understanding of sexual health.

In our first course, we will look more at your sexual and emotional development in the context of your concerns and go over strategies and exercises you can use to start to understand and transform your sexual experiences.

We live in a culture in which most children and adolescents are given limited sex education through their schools that primarily cover a medical or biological explanation of sexual and reproductive functioning. Others learn about sex through depictions offered in media, pornography, and popular culture. The vast majority of young people learn about sex through their friends and peers, but it’s likely that their peers are getting their information from similar resources. 

Unfortunately, one out of four women and one out of seven men have suffered sexual abuse and they learned about sex in a traumatic way. In addition, many children and adolescents learn sex-negative messages through religious teachings. It makes sense that very few adults in our culture really understand what sexual health actually is.

Comprehensive sexuality education includes learning about sexual diversity, sexual rights, healthy relationships, sexual empowerment, sexual consent, and sexual pleasure. If you didn’t learn about sex in this way, consider how you did learn about it and how that informs the thoughts and feelings you have about sex and how those, in turn, impact your current experience of sex and sexual functioning. 

As sex therapists, we are here to educate or re-educate others on healthy sexuality so they are empowered to learn about who they are as sexual persons. 

MendEd’s first course is grounded in a developmental model of sexual health. Sex really is about so much more than the act of sex. It’s about how safe you feel with your partner, how comfortable you are being touched and touching, and the types of thoughts, feelings, and body sensations you experience in any sexual situation — all of which are developed over time through your life experiences and relationships. Problems with desire, arousal, or orgasm are not really about the sex act at all. 

Your sexual freedom is a human right. Everyone deserves to live a life free of sexual concerns, dysfunctions, and problems. Life is full of consensual, pleasurable, and enjoyable sex. This course provides the foundation to support you on this path. 

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