All Things Love and Intimacy with Katie Ziskind

In this Pride Month episode of All Things Love and Intimacy, host Katie Ziskind, LMFT, Certified Sex Therapy Informed Professional, and trauma-informed couples therapist, explores the history of the Stonewall Riot, hate crimes against the LGBTQIA+ population, good news in the LGBTQIA+ community, as well as a glossary of LGBT terms regarding accepting, and expressing your authentic sexual orientati...

🌈 Welcome to episode, "144: Coming Out Later in Life: Pride Month, Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation, Authenticity, Religious Trauma, Shame, and Finding the Courage to Be Yourself," with Katie Ziskind. What happens when you've spent years—or even decades—trying to be the "good wife," the "good husband," the perfect parent, the devoted church member, or the succ...

In episode, "143: Cross Dressing and Trauma Counseling (Healing the Parts You Hide): Gain Self-Acceptance, Heal Shame, Embrace Your Authentic Self, Talk About Masculinity and Femininity, Sexual Abuse, PTSD," of the All Things Love and Intimacy, trauma therapist and Certified Sex Therapy Informed Professional Katie Ziskind explores the relationship between cross dressing, shame, self-reje...

In episode 142 of the, All Things Love and Intimacy podcast, Katie Ziskind's speaks to the various aspects regarding libido, desire discrepancies, and rebuilding sexual libido and desire. Many couples have a strong friendship and identify as enjoying the companionship, but struggle with physical intimacy, eroticism, passion, orgasming, sexual playfulness, and sexual connection. Katie Ziskind e...

Welcome back to the All Things Love and Intimacy Podcast with Katie Ziskind, certified sex therapy informed professional, licensed marriage and family therapist, yoga teacher, and holistic couples counselor. In this empowering and educational episode, Katie Ziskind explores the history of eroticism, female pleasure, emotional intimacy, kink positivity, and how couples can reconnect with passion, p...

In episode, "140: Part 2: Let’s Talk Cross-Dressing- Feminine Energy & Sexuality: Breaking Shame Around Cross-Dressing with Katie Ziskind," on the All Things Love and Intimacy Podcast, we’re diving into a compassionate, affirming, and sex-positive conversation about cross-dressing, feminine energy, and breaking shame around gender expression. If you’ve ever wondered “Is cross-dressin...

In episode, "139: Part 1: Sexual Accelerators & Brakes: The Real Science of Female Desire," of All Things Love and Intimacy , we explore how to create deeper connection, pleasure, and emotional safety in your sex life by shifting away from performance-based intimacy and into play, curiosity, and nervous system regulation. Drawing on the groundbreaking work of Emily Nagoski, this epis...

In this episode, of the All Things Love and Intimacy podcast, Katie Ziskind, licensed marriage and family therapist, certified sex therapy informed professional, complex trauma specialist, takes you deep into the world of couples therapy retreats and how immersive, trauma-informed relationship work can help you and your partner reconnect, regulate, and truly understand each other again. If you’ve...

In episode, "137: Loving Someone Who Feels Afraid of Sex, Pleasure, or Their Body - How To Talk About Sex When Your Partner Feels Unsafe" of the All things Love and Intimacy podcast, Katie Ziskind speaks to couples where one person is on their sexual empowerment journey and the other is struggling with sexual shame from a strict, conservative, and purity culture upbringing. If you or you...

In this powerful and deeply insightful episode, "136: Infidelity Recovery Counseling and Coaching: Root Causes of Cheating, Why Affairs Happen, and Gottman Therapy Steps For Rebuilding Trust and Intimacy," of All Things Love and Intimacy , Katie Ziskind explores the real reasons behind infidelity—going far beyond surface-level explanations to uncover the emotional, psychological, and rel...

In episode, "135: Part 3: Complex PTSD, Anxious Attachment Styles, and Avoidant Attachment Styles in Polyamory and Ethically Non-Monogamous Relationships," of the All Things Love and Intimacy podcast, relationship coach Katie Ziskind explores how attachment styles, inner child wounds, emotionally neglectful parenting, and complex trauma shape our most intimate relationships—especially fo...

In episode "134: Polyamory and Open Relationships: How To Turn Hyper-Independence, Childhood Emotional Neglect, and Feeling Like A Burden Into Opportunities For Emotional Safety," of the All Things Love and Intimacy Podcast, relationship therapist Katie Ziskind explores the powerful connection between inner child wounds, emotional vulnerability, and polyamory or open relationships. While many peop...

What does it really mean to be in a polyamorous or open relationship? How do couples decide rules around sex, boundaries, jealousy, and emotional connections? How do couples come out to family and friends? What if coming out is not the right choice, leaving partners hurt or sad? And what happens when betrayal, secrecy, or broken agreements occur in non-monogamous relationships? And how do couples...

In episode 132 of All Things Love and Intimacy, Katie Ziskind explores the complex connection between neurodivergence and porn addiction. If you or your partner struggles with compulsive pornography use and identify as ADHD, autism, or is neurodivergent, this episode offers clarity without shame. Instead of framing porn addiction as a moral failure, Katie unpacks how dopamine regulation, sensory p...

In this powerful and compassionate episode of All Things Love and Intimacy, Katie Ziskind dives into a topic so many women struggle with silently: difficulty with orgasm, low libido, disconnection from their bodies, and anxiety around intimacy. If you’ve ever felt broken, ashamed, numb, or frustrated in your sex life, this episode is for you. Sex specialized therapy for women in Florida is about s...

In this powerful and deeply validating episode of All Things Love and Intimacy, licensed marriage and family therapist Katie Ziskind explores the lasting impact of purity culture and religious trauma on women’s sexual desire, pleasure, and emotional intimacy. This conversation is especially for women who were taught to be “good girls,” remain virgins until marriage, suppress sexual curiosity, and...

In this episode of All Things Love and Intimacy , Katie Ziskind, certified sex therapy informed professional, Gottman Level Two trained marriage specialist, and somatic trauma specialist, explores what happens when love starts to feel heavy, distant, or depleted—even when two people deeply care about each other. Emotional burnout is one of the most overlooked challenges in long-term relationships,...

Are you curious why sexual desire can feel elusive, even in a loving relationship? In episode 128 of All Things Love & Intimacy , therapist, sexuality coach, and sex educator Katie Ziskind dives into emotional foreplay—the often-overlooked foundation of female arousal, clitoral engorgement, orgasms, and lasting sexual satisfaction. Most women don’t just need physical touch—they need emotional...

In Part 2 of this conversation on All Things Love and Intimacy , Katie Ziskind continues exploring how marriage therapy intensives for neurodivergent couples in Melbourne, Florida support deeper healing, repair, and reconnection—especially when trauma, ADHD, grief, or chronic stress have shaped relationship dynamics over time. This episode focuses on what happens beneath the conflict. Many neurodi...

Relationships are challenging—even in the best of circumstances. When ADHD, neurodivergence, trauma, grief, PTSD, or C-PTSD are part of the relationship, conflict can escalate quickly and feel confusing, exhausting, and deeply painful. You may love your partner fiercely and still find yourselves stuck in the same arguments, wondering why it feels impossible to slow things down or feel understood....

What happens to intimacy when one or both partners are neurodivergent, highly sensitive, or high functioning on the autism spectrum—and no one ever taught you how your nervous system actually works? In this episode of All Things Love and Intimacy , we explore why conflict, emotional disconnection, and sex can feel so intense for sensitive and neurodivergent nervous systems—and why slowing down is...

Many people believe they struggle with chronic anxiety, digestive issues, panic attacks, or OCD—yet traditional coping skills don’t bring lasting relief. In this episode of All Things Love and Intimacy , trauma specialist and trauma therapist, Katie Ziskind, explores how fight, flight, freeze, and fawn responses are often misunderstood survival strategies rooted in early emotional stress, relation...

Retreats are designed for couples who feel stuck in painful cycles they cannot break on their own. You may love each other deeply, yet feel like enemies during conflict. Experience intense arguments, emotional shutdown, resentment, or a growing sense of loneliness in your marriage? Constantly walking on eggshells, or like nothing you do is ever enough? If your fights feel bigger than the present m...

In this powerful and compassionate episode of All Things Love and Intimacy, Katie Ziskind, LMFT, RYT500, infidelity and complex trauma specialist, guides you through what it actually takes to rebuild trust and repair the couple bubble when you’re the partner who cheated. Infidelity doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Infidelity often reactivates old wounds from childhood. There are attachment wounds, copi...

Welcome to All Things Love & Intimacy with Katie Ziskind, LMFT, RYT500, infidelity specialist, complex trauma therapist, and sex-positive educator. In this powerful episode (part 1), we dive deep into the hidden roots of affairs, porn addiction, and emotional disconnection—revealing how these patterns are often not random mistakes, but learned behaviors passed down through generations. We disc...