#283 Building Loving Relationships, Nonmonogamy and Attachment Styles - with Kate Loree

What are the attachment styles and how do they impact relationships in general, especially non-monogamy? How do people know if they are non-monogamous? What’s the difference between fantasy and innate needs or desires? How do people’s unresolved attachment injuries get triggered within non-monogamy and how can they work with this once it’s triggered? What are some tools, and do they also apply to monogamous relationships? Lastly, what are some top tips for navigating both monogamous and non-monogamous relationships?

About our guest: Kate Loree, LMFT, is a sex-positive licensed marriage and family therapist with a specialty in non-monogamous, kink, LGBTQ, and sex worker communities and the author of Open Deeply: A Guide to Building Conscious, Compassionate Open Relationships.

In addition to her master’s in marriage and family therapy, she also has an MBA and is a registered art therapist (ATR). She is an EDSE certified sex educator and an EMDR certified therapist with additional training in the Trauma Resiliency Model (TRM) for the treatment of trauma. She has been practicing psychotherapy since 2003.

She co-hosts her own sex-positive podcast, Open Deeply, with Sunny Megatron, has been featured in Buzzfeed videos, and has been a guest on Playboy Radio and many podcasts, including American Sex, Sluts and Scholars, and Sex Out Loud. She has written for Good Vibrations and Hollywood Magazine and is a frequent public speaker.

Her private practice resides in Encino, CA. For more information, please visit her on the web at KateLoree.com.

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