Respark Blogs

Respark Client Care Director, Taylor Spaziani Shares Influential Resources

Taylor Spaziani’s is our client relations director at Respark Therapy & Associates. She is in graduate school in Denver, Colorodo and soon will become a couples therapist and sex therapist. Here are some of her influential media resources that have helped her along in her journey. “There have been many books, podcasts, and public figures…

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Getting to Know our Denver Couple’s therapist, Mckenna Paulson!

At our Denver Respark Therapy Office, Mckenna Paulsen, specializes in helping couples in fun and productive therapy, sparking love, and relationship coaching involving match making! Mckenna has a deep passion for spreading light and love, and it shows up in her work with our clients (both in individual therapy and couples and sex therapy). Her dream…

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How The Concepts of “Sex Addiction” and “Porn Addiction” are Failing Our Clients

Our founder, Heather McPherson, LPC-S, LMFT-S, CST collaborated and contributed on a journal article published in the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists’ Magazine, The Therapist, in their September/October 2016 issue. The article is entitled How The Concepts of “Sex Addiction” and “Porn Addiction” are Failing Our Clients.   Contact us to schedule an appointment 512-537-0922.   Next…

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An Interview with Dr. David Ley about “Sex Addiction”

  A couple years ago Heather McPherson LPC-S, LMFT-S, CST interviewed Dr. David Ley, CSTS through the training organization, the Sexual Health Alliance discussing “Sex Addiction.” Below Dr. Ley discusses the position statement by the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT). 1. Where did the idea of “sex addiction” come from? Sex addiction is truly…

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Why We Go to Therapy in the Midst of a Global Pandemic

Why We Go to Therapy in the Midst of a Global Pandemic by Taylor Spaziani, Respark Intake Coordinator Being in the middle of surviving a global pandemic has all of us humans feeling all over the place with our emotions. Our feelings are riding a roller coaster ride, and we’re beginning to feel as if…

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The Respark Foundation

CONTACT: Heather McPherson, LPC-S, LMFT-S, CST intake@resparkfoundation.org www.resparkfoundation.org   The Respark Foundation Provides the Next Step of All-inclusive, Holistic and Educational Care to Survivors of Sexual Harm   AUSTIN, TX & DENVER, CO 4/6/2020 – Respark Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization providing sliding scale, trauma-informed care that offers the next step in recovery from…

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Dismantling the Myths of Teletherapy

By: Zanna Haney Stevanovic M.A., LPC-Intern, Supervised by Heather McPherson M.A, LPC-S, LMFT-S, CST This is a time when everything is moving to online platforms and digital media. This is something that we are accustomed to in other areas of our life, especially in the era of social media. However, it’s not something that many…

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Sex on the Decline Among Teens and Young Adults

  By Zanna Haney Stevanovic Sex is everywhere around us, but why are we having so little of it?   The statistics seem to show that sex is on the decline for teens and young adults in the United States. The CDC published “Trends in the Prevalence of Sexual Behaviors and HIV Testing” ranging from…

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