Sex Therapy Meets EMDR: Healing Shame, Reclaiming Pleasure, and Sexual Health with Cassie Krajewski

In this episode of Notice That, we dive into one of the most avoided—and most essential—topics in mental health: sex, pleasure, and sexual health.

We’re joined by Cassie Krajewski, LCSW, AASECT-certified sex therapist, EMDRIA Approved Consultant, and co-founder of Iris Training Collective. Cassie brings a deeply integrative lens to sexuality—one that moves far beyond technique and into conceptualization, embodiment, and healing.

Together, we explore how sexual health is not a “specialty concern,” but a core dimension of human wellness—and how EMDR therapy offers a powerful, attuned framework for addressing sexual shame, desire, pleasure, and trauma.

In this conversation, we explore:

• Why sexual health is a birthright, not a performance metric
• How culture, religion, and shame disrupt embodiment and desire
• The role of pleasure as a healing mechanism, not a reward
• Why many therapists avoid sex—and how that avoidance shows up clinically
• Integrating sex therapy principles into EMDR case conceptualization
• Creative and embodied resourcing for sexual trauma and low desire
• Consent, curiosity, and reclaiming agency in sexuality
• How therapists can reflect on their own relationship to sex and pleasure

This episode is an invitation—to therapists and humans alike—to pause, notice, and gently question the stories we’ve inherited about sexuality… and to consider what healing might look like if pleasure were allowed back into the room.

Free Resources on Cassie's website at inneratlastherapy.com

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