ALLternative® Therapy with Dr. Harmony
Hello Lifestyle enthusiasts, Lifestyle explorers, morbidly curious, relationship challenged, incurable romantics and lost souls.
I know…I know…the last thing the internet needs is yet again another darned relationship Q and A forum for exhibitionists to share their dastardly encounters hoping for some form of catharsis. However, this one does have a twist.
I am affectionately known as Dr. Harmony the ALLternative Therapist®. I am a licensed Acupuncture Physician (FL), Licensed Mental Health Counselor (FL), and Supreme Court Family Court Mediator however, more importantly; I am a sex positive, kink aware therapist, educator and advocate. Having been an alternative culture/lifestyle advocate for almost 2 decades and a direct service provider for the Kink community for more than 10 years, I have collected a number of experiences and developed an expertise in various ALLternative lifestyles, cultures and relationships. Oh, and if my walls could talk! I have clients who are so vanilla that they could challenge the bean and other clients who remind me regularly that I haven’t heard it all (and am not sure that I really want to). I have worked with social nudists (yes they were nude), Masters (a challenge to challenge), Slaves (very compliant clients), Transsexuals, Swingers, Poly people, and an incredible list of kinks that you could never imagine (you don’t want to know).
My professional practice, HarmonyUs, Inc., has developed into one that resembles a traid relationship. My primary practice consists of specializing in two distinct areas. They are: Traumatology, which is a broad scope of practice, which could include everything from war refugees to victims of pathological relationships and Collaborative Divorce also known as the “Harmonious Divorce”. Hence, I help people to break up, grieve, repair and recover. My secondary practice consists of my work with the Kink/ Lifestyle community. I offer a non judgmental, educated, therapeutic environment which is aware and nurturing to those practicing Kink or alternative Lifestyles and I can help address any issues that may arise as a direct result of the dynamics of these lifestyles.
In short (too late), I like to tell people that I specialize in ALLternative Solutions for ALLternative lives.
Most of your run at the mill relationship or alternative culture forum columnists are either educated experts and are non Lifestyle participants or they are simply laymen participants offering their experience. Both very valuable but both may offer a bias. With this column you get both a participant and an expert (bi-columnist).
I am here to offer you the chance to explore the mottled mess of alternative culture, Kinky Lifestyle and relationship data that envelopes my brain. I want to offer you the chance to ask your most secret kinky question, compelling relationship quandary or basic lifestyle inquiry all for the simple cost of time (oh and don’t forget, we love to read relationship drama stories as well). As I move forward in this column, I will usually have some recommend reading or resources and hope that you will seek them out. Please note that I do not receive credits or kickbacks from any recommendations that I make in my writings. They are pure recommendations based on the validity and reliability of their content. I encourage feedback from you and ask that in the future you can help me to expand my alternative culture, Lifestyle and Kink knowledge as well.