Become a Patron!This is a directory of practitioners who underwent training on supporting clients to overcome Vaginismus by Relationship Counselor & Clinical Sexologist Dr Martha Tara Lee of Eros Coaching. Dr Lee is an AASECT certified sexuality educator and AASECT certified sexuality educator supervisor. In practice since 2009, she has worked with thousands of people with Vaginismus or unconsummated relationships, and successfully supported many to overcome their conditions. This is a list of practitioners she personally trained and highly recommends.
For more about Vaginismus, click here.
1. Shannon Schultz (She/ they)
Location: Big Island Hawaii
As a sexologist/ sex educator, I am dedicated to raising awareness and providing support for individuals experiencing vaginismus. I believe in promoting education about this condition, addressing its physical, emotional, and psychological aspects. I advocate for individualized treatment plans that encompass pelvic floor exercises, counseling, mindfulness techniques, and medical interventions. My goal is to empower those affected by vaginismus by equipping them with the necessary tools, resources, and support networks to overcome this condition and reclaim their sexual well-being.
How you work:
- Talk therapy
- Hands on
- Zoom
- In-person
Description of your services: I am a hands-on hands-in therapist
Language: English
Website: Shannonschultzsomatics.com Pacific Center of Somatic Sexology
Email Address: Shannonschultzsomatics@gmail.com
Best way to contact you: Through my website
2. Stella Topaz (she/ her)
Location: Sydney and Port Kembla, NSW
The experience of pain with sex, including vaginismus, can be overwhelming, and it might feel like your body is letting you down. It can be helpful to notice the relationship you currently have with your body and with sex, and to identify what you want and hope for. With your self-knowledge and intention setting, and my skills as a sexological bodyworker and erotic coach, together we can design a plan. This might include information and education, mapping out support networks, and planning a range of practical activities you can do by yourself, and/or with a partner, and/or in session with me. A key part of this work can be slowing down; finding and honouring your body’s pace, in a process of affirming sexual and bodily wellbeing.
How you work: Zoom or In-person, and for in-person, I offer hands-on
Description of your services:
- Sexological Bodywork
- Scar Remediation
- Erotic Education
- Wheel of Consent®
Language: English
Website: stellatopaz.com
Email Address: stella@stellatopaz.com
Social Media:
Facebook: @abundantbody
Insta: @abundant_body
Best way to contact you: Email or via Facebook / Insta messages
3. Georgia Grace (she/ her)
Location: Sydney
In session you can expect an integration of talk-based approaches, traditional eastern practices such as embodiment, meditation and mindfulness, with the pioneering insights of neuroscience and somatic learning theory. You will have the opportunity to discuss, share, process, learn and feel as we work with a range of modalities, tools and frameworks.
These sessions are co-created and client led, you have the time and space to explore, heal, get curious and discover. I’m a big believer in learning by doing – at the end of each session I offer options for take home practices to implement everything we’ve worked through in session.
All people are welcome and respected, sessions are LGBTQIA+ inclusive and safe.
- Sexual desire: desire discrepancy (aka mismatched libido), changes in desire, sexual frequency concerns
- Individual inquiries: sexual confidence, dating confidence, sexual stress or anxiety, feeling more present during sex, orgasm concerns, anatomy & pleasure, eroticism & sexuality
- Relationship dynamics: Communication skills, Non Monogamy, building trust, creating safety, learning about each others needs, having better sex, exploring new things, boundaries & consent, expressing & voicing desires, relationship choices and dynamics
- Sexual Function: premature ejaculation, erectile dysfunction, pre-orgasmia, difficulties with orgasm & climax, performance anxiety
- Painful sex: Vaginismus, general pain and discomfort, fear of pain leading to anxiety around sex
- Trauma: a body-mind and somatic approach to working with trauma
Can’t figure out whether your concern falls into these areas? Get in touch and I’ll point you in the right direction
How you work: Not hands on / Talk therapy / Zoom / In-person
Description of your services: Sex therapy and Embodied counselling
Languages you speak: English
Website: www.georgiagrace.co
Email Address: hello@georgiagrace.co
Social Media handle: @gspot._
Best way to contact you: Email
4. Susan Stark (She/ her)
Location: Brisbane
As a counsellor and bodyworker, working for the past three decades in the fields of trauma and sex, I am passionately committed to supporting people reclaim choice and healing through pleasure. My approach is gentle and focused on giving people practical tools to reshape their relationship with their bodies and sex. My intention is to meet people wherever they find themselves in their experience of vaginismus, and step by step together gently address obstacles and build confidence and choice through body awareness, information and skill building practice. I have a special interest and long-term commitment to working with survivors of sexual trauma and boundary violation. It is my absolute joy to walk alongside and resource this valuable journey of re-membering the body and healing sex.
How you work:
- Talk therapy
- Hands on
- Zoom
- In-person
Description of your services: I offer individual and couple sessions as well as workshops, groups and festivals.
Languages you speak: English
Website: www.susanstark.com.au
Email Address: susan@susanstark.com.au
Social media links: https://www.facebook.com/susan.stark.714
Best way to contact you: Email
5. Yedidya Zion (He/ him)
Location: Israel
As a Somatic Sex Educator, I believe in our ability to change. I believe in Our ability to Harness what is experienced as discomfort and pain and transform them into their complementary counter parts – Ease, Pleasure and Joy.
I am dedicated to raising awareness and providing support for individuals experiencing vaginismus. I believe in promoting education about this condition, addressing its physical, emotional, and psychological aspects. I advocate for individualized treatment plans that encompass pelvic floor exercises, counseling, mindfulness techniques, and medical interventions.
My goal is to empower those affected by vaginismus by equipping them with the necessary tools, resources, and support networks to overcome this condition and reclaim their sexual well-being. התשובה שלך
How you work: Zoom
Description of your services: Inviting you to meet by Zoom to create a personalized plan
Languages you speak: English and Hebrew
Email Address: yedidyabzion@gmail.com
Best way to contact you: Email
Compiled by Martha Tara Lee
Dr. Martha Tara Lee has been a passionate advocate for positive sexuality since 2007. With a Doctorate in Human Sexuality and a Masters in Counseling, she launched Eros Coaching in 2009 to help individuals and couples lead self-actualised and pleasurable lives. Her expertise includes working with couples who have unconsummated marriage, individuals with sexual inhibitions and discrepancies in sexual desire, men with erection and ejaculation concerns, and members of the LGBTQIA+ and kink communities. Dr. Lee welcomes all sexual orientations and is available for online and face-to-face consultations. Martha speaks English and Mandarin.
She is the only certified sexuality educator by the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) in the region (as of 2011) and is also an AASECT certified sexuality educator supervisor (as of 2018). She strives to provide fun, educational, and sex-positive events and is often cited in the media including Huffington Post, Newsweek, South China Morning Post, and more. She is the appointed Resident Sexologist for Singapore Cancer Society, Of Noah.sg, OfZoey.sg, and Virtus Fertility Centre. She is the host of radio show Eros Evolution for OMTimes Radio. In recognition of her work, she was named one of ‘Top 50 Inspiring Women under 40’ by Her World in July 2010, and one of ‘Top 100 Inspiring Women’ by CozyCot in March 2011. She is the author of Love, Sex and Everything In-Between (2013), Orgasmic Yoga: Masturbation, Meditation and Everything In-Between (2015), From Princess to Queen: Heartbreaks, Heartgasms and Everything In-Between (2017), and {Un}Inhihibited (2019).
You can read the testimonials she’s received over years here. For her full profile, click here. Email her here.
