“Everyone here is amazing,” reports one client. “The office is very comfortable and the location’s great,” says another. “This team really cares about their clients.” Riviera Therapy’s licensed staff specialize in trauma therapy, anxiety treatment, depression counseling, and couples therapy…
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.—Riviera Therapy owner Jenn Kennedy says the pandemic created a massive spike in the need for mental health services. A local banker helped Kennedy make the switch from leasing to owning, which has allowed Riviera Therapy to hire…
How can you have satisfying sex and feel more pleasure? More sensuality? In this episode, Diana welcomes Dr. Jenn Kennedy, a board-certified sex therapist, to explore ways to experience more pleasure and intimacy with our partner(s). Dr. Kennedy shares insights…
Dr. Jenn talks to Deepa Pulipati about relationships and intimacy. She discusses creating harmonious relationships and how to deal with fears of failure and unhealthy codependency. Jen teaches us about interest psychic blind spots and how insecurities show up in…
A FFF threesome is group sex involving three people who identify as female. This type of threesome involves female-female sexual activity between some or all of the participants. It can have several dynamics, such as everyone interacting sexually, one person…
Empathy is the ability to recognize what others are feeling emotionally. Some people feel they have an extra helping of empathy and may consider themselves empaths. The term “empath” is often used in popular culture to describe people who may…
Experts share what alarming signs and behaviors to look out for during the holidays and how to evaluate whether they’re relationship deal breakers. The holidays can be stressful for relationships — especially when that mistletoe is adorned with red flags.…
While lovesickness isn’t an official diagnosis, love, or lost love, can have physical symptoms. It may sound like the stuff of fairytales and rom-coms, but love and love loss can leave you feeling mentally and physically unwell. If you’ve ever…
Someone you know just dropped some news: their marriage is ending. Whether or not you expected it, knowing what to say to someone going through a divorce is tough. "When it comes to finding the right words to say to…
In some cases, a delusionship can refer to a relationship that isn’t rooted in reality at all. It describes “a dynamic where one partner is literally deluding themself about the status of the relationship,” said Jenn Kennedy, Ph.D., a licensed…