By Natasha Helfer Parker Natasha Helfer Parker is a licensed clinical marriage & family therapist and certified sex therapist with almost 20 years experience working primarily with Latter-day Saints. She can be contacted at natashaparker.org. QUESTION: Our teenager recently came out to us as being gay, and, wanting to respond in a supportive way, …
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How Does Our Polygamous History Affect Our Marriages?
By Natasha Helfer Parker Natasha Helfer Parker is a licensed clinical marriage & family therapist and certified sex therapist with almost 20 years experience working primarily with Latter-day Saints. She can be contacted at natashaparker.org. Question: Mormons believe that if we are sealed together as husband and wife—and if we honor our covenants—we will …
The Mormon Therapist: Neither a Sin nor a Transgression
By Natasha Helfer Parker I am 29 and have my endowments, but I also masturbate. I feel guilty about it. I’m trying to tell myself it’s OK. But is it? I am a single LDS woman, age 31, hoping to get endowed soon. The problem is, I have had issues with . . . …
Navigating a Pornography Disclosure
By Natasha Helfer Parker THREE MONTHS AGO I discovered my husband was looking at pornography. He admitted he has been addicted to pornography since he was a teenager and that as it has become more accessible (through the Internet, smart phones, etc.) his problem has increased. I had a hard time with this discovery …
The Mormon Therapist on . . . Approaching Sexual Decisions
By Natasha Helfer Parker Is anal sex wrong? I asked my husband to do it with me once because I was curious about how it might feel. Since then, we’ve done it a few more times and I have enjoyed it about half the time, depending on my mood. But was I wrong to experiment …
Roundtable: Abuse and Forgiveness
By Tresa Edmunds, Natasha Helfer Parker, and Dan Wotherspoon The following is excerpted from Mormon Matters podcast episode 110, “The Abuse and Forgiveness Dilemma,” released on 4 July 2012. It can be listened to in its entirety or downloaded by visiting www.mormonmatters.org. The discussion was led by Mormon Matters host, Dan Wotherspoon. Short bios of …