All Things Love and Intimacy with Katie Ziskind

🌈 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 successful professional, while secretly hiding an important pa...

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-rejection, childhood trauma, sexual abuse, mascul...

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 encourages couples to identify and overc...

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, playfulness, and authentic desire in...

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-dressing normal?” "Why...

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 episode breaks down the science of desire, includi...

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 been feeling stuck in the sam...

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 your partner grew up in a strict religious or con...

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 relational root causes that often go unspok...

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 for people practicing or exploring polyam...

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 people think non-monogamy is simply abo...

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 maintain emotional safety when more...

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 processing differences, trauma histo...

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 so much more than mechanics. It...

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 associate arousal...

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, and many couples don’t ...

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 safety, connection,...

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 neurodivergent couples find themselves...

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.

In this episode of All Things ...