Our clinically-based and professionally-supported content on the new MendEd site helps foster a comprehensive understanding of mental and sexual health. Here’s what you can expect. 

Sexual Health Is a Human Right

Sexual health is designed to be pleasurable, satisfying, and safe. Unfortunately, that’s not how many people experience it. 

Anxiety, sexual distress, dissatisfaction, and dysfunction are common. These can affect your quality of life and relationship satisfaction. Problems like these can also cause shame and resentment and even lead to significant relationship distress — especially if they go unaddressed. 

It is possible to address these problems in a safe, science-based way to not only decrease your sexual distress but improve your quality of life. 

The Start of MendEd

Kimberly Keiser is the founder of MendEd. She is a licensed counselor, AASECT-certified sex therapist, and EMDRIA-certified EMDR therapist. She has worked with hundreds of patients over the past decade helping them address all types of sexual concerns related to stress and dysfunction.

While working across the spectrum of sexual health concerns, she discovered things like, performance anxiety, lack of desire, avoidance, and not being present during sex are common. You are not alone if you’re experiencing strain with any aspect of your sexuality.

Many people who seek help for problems with sexual functioning carry so much shame. Your body is really smart and perhaps your symptoms actually serve a larger purpose in your overall, internal, and psychological stability. With MendEd courses, you will start to look at your sexual concerns through this lens.

Why MendEd?

This is a deeply personal part of your life. MendEd is 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 is not about the ending — it’s about the process.

For that reason, this course will focus on your process. You can go through this content, 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. 

As you work through the systematic process in this course, the physical symptoms will give way to a narrative that holds the key to symptom relief. You’ll be able to notice how the various components of a negative feedback loop involving thoughts and emotions have created or maintained your sexual distress or dysfunction — and most importantly how you can address that. 

This is not a replacement for therapy. It is encouraged that you see a therapist while taking this course. MendEd is meant to be educational and experiential and to start you on your journey toward sexual health. 

The goal is to help you start understanding sexual distress and dysfunctions, learn mindfulness principles and exercises — specifically tailor-made for this process, understand your negative feedback loop, and begin to work toward healthy sexuality with a positive feedback flow. 

We live in a culture in which most children and adolescents are given limited sex education through their schools that primarily cover the 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 their peers are getting their information from similar resources. 

Unfortunately, one out of every four women and one out of every seven men have suffered sexual abuse and have learned about sex in a traumatic way.

It makes sense that very few adults in our culture really understand what healthy sexuality 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 what you did learn and how this informs the thoughts and feelings you have about sex and how these in turn impact your current experiences and functioning as a sexual person. 

This 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 you feel safe with your partner, how comfortable you are with being touched, types of thoughts, feelings, and body sensations you experience in a sexual situation.

All of which developed over time through all of your life experiences and relationships. Problems with desire, arousal, or orgasm are not really about sex at all. 

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

Everyone deserves to live a life free of sexual concerns, dysfunctions, and problems; full of consensual, pleasurable, and enjoyable sex. MendEd provides the foundation to support you on your path.