My Approach to Helping
I’m Dr. Stephanie Bathurst, clinical sexologist, relationship therapist, certified integrative mental health specialist, PFilates instructor, and EMDR trauma recovery therapist. use communication and intimacy to create fulfilling relationships. Particularly, I connect with romantic partners who have finally reached their limit of tolerance for the way life has demanded self-sacrifice. I am an expertly trained, deeply empathetic clinical guide on your life journey toward a more connected self and a more fulfilling relationship. I own a private practice, Bathurst Couples, and sex therapy, located in Oahu, HI, and listened in the states of HI, VA, MD, and FL as a marriage and family therapist. I’m also a board-certified clinical sexologist in the US. I integrate an integrative approach of holistic and traditional therapies in my work with individuals and relationships to treat clients with mood conditions, sexual difficulties, and relationship instability that impair their quality of life and quality of relationships.
I help clients embrace what it means to be healthy, connected, and sexual with themselves and their partners. I also offer education on herbal sourcing and supplementation as a conjunctive wellness treatment. When I was an undergraduate student, I traveled to Honduras with a group of students. We volunteered to build infrastructure for the local community and orphanages. I can vividly recall walking into a room of young children aching for human affection from touch starvation. I felt their longing viscerally... at a core depth of human connection that is almost inexplicable. We do what we do in hopes that fewer people feel that painful longing for connection in this world. At the end of the day, we are all human and every single human is built to experience affectionate touch, to feel loved, and to desire a sense of belonging with others.
Communication, contracting, sexual satisfaction, and compatibility are also a professional interest of mine, seeing as intimacy often intersects with relational difficulties. I excel in supporting advanced and complex relational systems with a holistic approach, which includes ethically non-monogamous (ENM) systems. Clients often seek EMDR with me for trauma healing. Specialties in 5 different health fields promise that I am equipped to support imbalance in your relationship growth even if we find out a core issue or blockage during the retreat. Whether we discover hormonal imbalance, pelvic floor dysfunction, unmanaged addiction or attachment, unprocessed trauma, sexual incompatibility, or untreated resentment… you’re with the right provider.
