Increase safety.
Increase pleasure.
ABOUT ME
Hi, I’m Maureen.
Maureen Galindo
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist AssociateSupervised by Laurie Hightower, PhDMaster’s in Marriage & Family Therapy
Master’s in Community Psychology
Bachelor’s in Sociology
I bring a liberation and systems approach to my work, with attention to how societal conditions shape our sexuality.
I’ve spent nearly a decade studying sex therapy, working to create a world where the possibilities for pleasure never stop expanding, because we trust ourselves to go after what we want and meet whatever unfolds with confidence.
My specialty is helping you build self-trust:
noticing what’s happening in the body,
understanding desires and fears,
& making choices that align with your most authentic future.
The framework I’ve developed for better pleasure
Erotic Self-Trust
Good sex depends on being able to trust ourselves: to know what we want, communicate it, and respond to what we’re feeling. That takes practice. Erotic Self-Trust gives that learning a process.
We begin by looking at safety and pressure points—what affects our ability to be present and make choices.
Safety
How our bodies, emotions, relationships, and circumstances affect how safe we feel and how much choice we have.
Pressure points
Places where desires, needs, expectations, or circumstances pull us in different directions, making it harder to know what we want or act on it.
Once we understand what affects our safety and where the pressure is, we can use five skills to work through it and build self-trust:
5 Skills of Erotic Self-Trust
ATTUNE
- Sense
- Notice what’s happening in the body.
- Discern
- Understand what you want and what’s influencing it.
- Connect
- See how relationships and circumstances shape the experience.
INTEGRATE
- Allow
- Make room for feelings, needs, and uncertainty.
- Align
- Make choices that feel confidently you.
Over time, we learn to know ourselves and trust that we can move through life’s challenges.
Erotic Self-Trust App
Reflect on a situation through the five skills
WORK TOGETHERSex Therapy
Individual & couples therapy · Virtual in Texas
LEARN & EXPLORESexEd
Resources · Books · Trainings & workshops