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EPISODE · Mar 26, 2026 · 50 MIN

Navigating Desire: Initiation, Desire Types, and Mismatched Libido

from Untangling Intimacy: Build Your Therapy Toolkit · host Institute for Relational Intimacy

In this episode, hosts Martha Kauppi and Dr. K. Skye Henry Smith explain how they handle issues relating to initiation, desire discrepancy, and spontaneous and responsive desire. Whether it's a thoughtful intervention, or helping partners communicate to each other in respectful ways, there are a variety of positive solutions at clinicians' disposal. Use code UNTANGLINGINTIMACY to unlock 10% off "Consensual Non-Monogamy Level 1: Clinical Skills and Interventions" and individual webinars: https://www.instituteforrelationalintimacy.com/CNM-Level-1 https://www.instituteforrelationalintimacy.com/webinars Free training in Martha Kauppi's first-session sex issues assessment: https://www.instituteforrelationalintimacy.com/will-lily-brief-assessment-video-opt-in-page-podcast Join the ATSIP waitlist here and be the first to know when the course opens for signups: https://www.instituteforrelationalintimacy.com/atsip     To work with Dr. K. Skye Henry Smith, submit here: ⁠https://workwithdrskye.com/⁠    To find out more about Martha Kauppi, and access more training materials, visit here: ⁠https://www.instituteforrelationalintimacy.com/  Have a question for Skye and Martha? We can't promise every submission will be answered, but we'd love to hear from you! Send your thoughts to: ⁠[email protected]  ⁠     Thanks for listening!

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