Good Sex @NYU

In this episode, April and Danielle are joined by Chris Diggs and Dr. Rafael Rodriguez to discuss restorative practices. Listeners might recognize Dr. Rodriguez, NYU’s Associate Vice President and Dean of Students, from his previous episode in season 2, episode 8. Chris is the Senior Director of the NYU Changemaker Center.  This conversation explores the key concepts of Restorative Practices and h...

Welcome back for season 3 of Good Sex @NYU! New this season, we are giving you Just the Tip. This will be our new short segments that offer a tip on sex, dating, and health. This episode includes practical tips for self-validation on a daily basis. Tune into to @hello_hpo on TikTok and Instagram or @Good Sex at NYU on YouTube for our videos. If you have questions about this episode or others then...

Have you missed your weekly dose of Good Sex @NYU? April and Danielle have missed you and and we have exciting news and a few changes to share. Our first full episode will drop on Monday, September 25, we hope you will join us for our sometimes funny and always sex positive conversations in our second season.

Today on the podcast, April and Danielle are joined by NYU Counseling and Wellness Racial Justice team members, Bernadette Mwelu Kerr and Sian Caisey. Listeners might remember Bernie from our Sex and Spirituality episode last season but she is a licensed clinical social worker who has been at NYU for 7 years starting as a crisis response counselor in Wellness Exchange and shifting to her current r...

Today on the podcast, April and Danielle are once again joined by Zabie Yamasaki, the Founder of Transcending Sexual Trauma through Yoga, an organization that offers trauma-informed yoga to survivors, consultation for universities and trauma agencies, and training for healing professionals. Zabie received her undergraduate degree in Psychology and Social Behavior and Education at UC Irvine and com...

Today on the podcast, April and Danielle are joined by Zabie Yamasaki, the Founder of Transcending Sexual Trauma through Yoga, an organization that offers trauma-informed yoga to survivors, consultation for universities and trauma agencies, and training for healing professionals. Zabie received her undergraduate degree in Psychology and Social Behavior and Education at UC Irvine and completed her...

On this episode of Good Sex @ NYU, April and Danielle revisit their chat with Caroline Grunwald. Caroline is a first year graduate student in the School of Global Public Health. During her undergraduate studies at Princeton University, Caroline completed her thesis on hookup culture and has since been focused on completing a public health masters degree with an emphasis on reproductive health. Thi...

Today on Good Sex @ NYU, April and Danielle are joined by Dr. S, a board-certified physician working in family medicine for over 15 years. Dr. S has spent many of her years of medical practice providing gender-affirming care to her patients.  In this episode, April and Danielle explore what it means to provide gender-affirming care at the Student Health Center (SHC) and more broadly. Dr. S goes in...

Today April and Danielle are refreshing on of their favorite conversation this season with Dr. Reji Mathew who is an award-winning artist, thinker, educator, and neuroscience-informed psychotherapist. Dr. Reji Mathew is a senior clinical social worker at the Counseling and Wellness division of the NYU Student Health Center. She is trained in CBT, DBT, TF-CBT, EMDR, Narrative Therapy and the Voice...

Today on Good Sex @ NYU, Danielle converses with Meghan Kelley, LCSW at NYU London Counseling and Wellness Services and Aisling Leen, Student Life Coordinator. Meghan has worked with NYU students for over 15 years as an off-campus therapist and then as the full time global wellness counselor in London since 2019. Aisling worked at NYU for two years in the student life coordinator position where sh...

Today on Good Sex @ NYU, Danielle chats with Abhishek Rana. Abhishek is studying Integrated Design and Media at NYU Tandon. He is also a graduate assistant for communications and design at the NYU Office of Global Inclusion. He loves talking about books, AI ethics, accessible design, and his dating life!  In this episode, Abhishek shares the impact of being bullied growing up.  He opens up about w...

On this episode of Good Sex @ NYU, April and Danielle are joined by Dr. Reji Mathew who is an artist, thinker, educator, and neuroscience-informed psychotherapist. Dr. Mathew is a senior clinical social worker at the Counseling and Wellness division of the NYU Student Health Center. She is trained in CBT, DBT, TF-CBT, EMDR, Narrative Therapy and the Voice Dialogue method. Dr. Mathew is an arts acc...

Today on Good Sex @ NYU, April and Danielle are joined by Dr. Virginia Robertson and Dr. Sandra Curet, medical providers at the GYN health department at the NYU Student Health Center. Dr. Robertson is the SHC’s Associate Medical Director of GYN and Specialty Services and is a family medicine doctor by training. Dr. Curet is an OBGYN who practices general gynecology at the Student Health Center and...

Today on Good Sex @NYU, April and Danielle are joined by Chris Woods, Senior Director, Inclusive Policy; Director of LGBTQ+ Center at the Office of Global Inclusion, Diversity and Strategic Innovation. Chris has over a decade of experience working in diversity, equity and inclusion within higher education. His research and publications are on various topics include:queer and trans people of color,...

Today on Good Sex @NYU, April and Danielle welcome Genny Cuocci, LCSW and Dr. Akinola Adebisi to discuss how substance use impacts our lives, including our relationships and sexual experiences. Genny Cuocci is the Assistant Director of Clinical Services  and Group Programming at Counseling and Wellness Services as well as the Substance Assessment Feedback Evaluation (SAFE) Team Leader. Genny has b...

Today on Good Sex @NYU, Dr. Marybec Griffin joins the podcast. Dr. Griffin holds a PhD in Social and Behavioral Health Science from NYU and is a professor at NYU and Rutgers University. She is a trained doula, certified sexologist, and co-creator of Dr. Period Hackers, a menstrual health research education collective.  In part 2 of our discussion, Dr. Griffin compares condom negations with COVID-1...

Today on Good Sex @NYU, Dr. Marybec Griffin joins the podcast. Dr. Griffin holds a PhD in Social and Behavioral Health Science from NYU and is a professor at NYU and Rutgers University. She is a trained doula, certified sexologist and co-creator of Dr. Period Hackers, a menstrual health research education collective.  In part one of April and Danielle’s conversation, Dr. Griffin describes hearing...

Today on Good Sex @ NYU, April and Danielle are joined by Dr. Reji Mathew who is an award-winning artist, thinker, educator, and neuroscience-informed psychotherapist. Dr. Reji Mathew is a senior clinical social worker at the Counseling and Wellness division of the NYU Student Health Center. She is trained in CBT, DBT, TF-CBT, EMDR, Narrative Therapy and the Voice Dialogue method. Dr. Mathew is an...

Today on Good Sex @ NYU, April and Danielle chat with Caroline Grunwald. Caroline is a first year graduate student in the School of Global Public Health. During her undergraduate studies at Princeton University, Caroline completed her thesis on hookup culture and has since been focused on completing a public health masters degree with an emphasis on reproductive health. In this episode, Caroline s...

Today on Good Sex @ NYU, April and Danielle are joined by Dr. Anne McEneany and nurse practitioner Pelagia (Peggy) Pappathomas from NYU’s Counseling and Wellness Services. Dr. McEneaney has been a practicing mental health provider for 30 years, 18 of which were at NYU. Throughout her career, she focused on working with people who experience disordered eating challenges. Peggy has been working at N...

Today on Good Sex @ NYU, April and Danielle are joined by Dory Gurinsky, the Assistant Director at the Center for Student Life, working to support the student experience and providing resources for their time at NYU and in NYC.  In this episode, Dory talks about her journey as an only child and how that impacted her feelings around conflict and her ability to communicate her boundaries. The conver...

Today on Good Sex @ NYU, April and Danielle are joined by Dr. Virginia Robertson and Dr. Sandra Curet, medical providers at the GYN health department at the NYU Student Health Center. Dr. Robertson is the SHC’s Associate Medical Director of GYN and Specialty Services and is a family medicine doctor by training. Dr. Curet is an OBGYN who practices general gynecology at the Student Health Center and...

Today on Good Sex @ NYU, April and Danielle are joined by Rafael (aka Raf) Rodriguez, NYU’s Associate Vice President and Dean of Students. As the Dean of Students, he is the principal student advocate and provides guidance and direction to all students at NYU. Dean Rodriguez works with his team and partners across the university to strengthen community and belonging at NYU. In this episode, Dean R...

On this episode of the podcast, April and Danielle are joined by Counseling and Wellness Services Psychiatrist, Dr. Brunhild Kring. Dr. Kring has worked at NYU for the past 17 years and recently retired from her role as Associate Director of Psychiatry and is now a part-time staff psychiatrist. Dr. Kring has written on topics related to sex and gender throughout her 30 year career.  In this episod...

Today on Good Sex @ NYU, April and Danielle chat with Ruby Carmel. Ruby is a senior, in her last semester at Tisch School of the Arts, where she studies theatrical management, production, and intimacy direction. She works as an electrician, cheesemonger, and community organizer.  In this episode, Ruby shares the impact of growing up with a therapist in the family and learning from an early age the...