Heather McPherson Featured in The Body HIV/AIDS Resources

Tim Murphy – CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Sept. 8, 2020 My friend Dale Corvino is a 50-something New York City–area writer and landlord. But in previous decades, as he’ll proudly tell anyone, he was a bisexual sex worker. And among his many assignments over the years as an escort was one in which he was asked by…

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Body Dysmorphia in Gay Porn 

Body Dysmorphia In Gay Porn  By: Taylor Spaziani Tayte Hanson is a gay man who is involved in the adult film industry as a performer and speaks openly about his diagnosis of body dysmorphic disorder. In Tayte’s Vice article (2017), he explains that his body realistically is incredibly athletic and fit. He is 5’9”, 160…

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The Art of Tantra

The Art of Tantra: An exercise for individuals and/or partners By: Robyn Flores, MS, LPCC Schedule an online appointment with Robyn HERE What is Tantra?  The quick answer is that Tantra can be a practice of personal liberation and mindfulness. It views both the human body and earthly life as authentic manifestations of divine energy. Carrellas (2017)…

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How Respark® Therapy Was Created

Timeline of events For Respark Founder, Heather Mcpherson.  2011: Heather launched a private practice in Austin, Texas. -A solo private practice 2012: The private psychotherapy practice became a group practice and was renamed Respark® Therapy and Associates in Austin, Texas. 2013: Group Practice in Austin grows to 8 clinicians. 2015: Heather launches Sexual Health Alliance providing much-needed…

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SheKnows: Ethical Non-Monogamy

In August 2020, Respark’s founder and director Heather McPherson, LPC-S, LMFT-S, CST was mentioned in a She Knows article on ethical non-monogamy. This article describes that ethical non-monogamy is any consensual relationship that involves more than two people, whether that be inside or outside of the relationship. Ethical non-monogamy is seemingly growing to be a…

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GTK (Getting to Know) Katherine Van Noy

Respark Therapist, Katherine Van Noy is a sex therapist in Denver, Colorado. Katherine is a board-Certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP). She has experience seeing Sex Therapy clients throughout the state of Colorado in online therapy. Originally from Austin, Texas, Katherine now enjoys the best of both states. Here is an interview with her about some…

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Why the PRIDE Movement is Important

Hi there! My name is Taylor Spaziani and alongside being the clinical manager here at Respark Therapy, I am also a graduate student at CU Denver, and working on my certification to become a certified sex therapist with the Sexual Health Alliance. Have we met yet? If you’ve scheduled an appointment with us, we probably…

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How to Stop Blaming in your Relationship

Brene Brown begins her video by asking, “How many of you when something goes wrong, you want to know who’s fault it is?”  One day, Brene was in the kitchen and dropped a full cup of hot coffee on the tile floor. It splashed all over her white pants and went everywhere. The first thing that…

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What is Sex Therapy? 

What is sex therapy?  Are images of Barbara Streisand from Meet the Fockers flashing through your mind? As entertaining as that may be, sex therapy is actually just where we talk about intimacy and relationship issues. The office is similar to a living room, bright, welcoming and comfortable. At Respark Therapy, sex therapy is a…

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