Sex therapist gives advice for past sexual trauma

“It’s about finding something that works for you, depending on the extent to which the trauma is affecting you and how it’s affecting you, whether it’s showing up in your ability to form emotional connections with people.

Whether it shows up in your ability to feel physiological pleasure or whether it shows up in compulsive behavior and doing things that you know will give you short-term gratification in the moment but will cause you problems in your life or relationships in the long term, finding therapists you can talk to about it and finding people you can talk to about it is crucial,” Cyndi told BuzzFeed.