Answering questions with Kate Loree

Our guest for this week is Kate Loree. She is a sex-positive licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) with a specialty in non-monogamous, kink, LGBTQ, and sex worker communities and she is also the author of Open Deeply: A Guide to Building Conscious, Compassionate Open Relationships.

In addition to her master’s in marriage and family therapy, she also has an MBA and is a registered art therapist (ATR). She is an EDSE-certified sex educator and an EMDR-certified therapist with additional training in the Trauma Resiliency Model (TRM) for the treatment of trauma. She has been practicing psychotherapy since 2003.

She cohosts her own sex-positive podcast, Open Deeply, with Sunny Megatron (who has been a guest on Multiamory before), has been featured in Buzzfeed videos, and has been a guest on Playboy Radio and many podcasts, including American Sex, Sluts and Scholars, and Sex Out Loud. She has written for Good Vibrations and Hollywood Magazine and is a frequent public speaker.

Throughout this episode, Kate chimes in to give her perspective for some of our listeners’ questions:

• Do you have any advice for working through the embodied anxiety and fear response that takes over every time my partner tells me about a new potential romantic connection?

• What's the biggest pro and con for each of you when it comes to being publicly out as polyamorous?

• Any tips for navigating the " big city, small town polycule" aspect where everyone seems to be one or two degrees of separation?

• Do y’all have any stories of metas you started off on the wrong foot with but ended up being super close to?

• How can one be a good meta? Is it any of the meta’s responsibility to also navigate the relationship as best as possible?

To out more about Kate, her book, and her private practice in Encino, CA, please visit her on the web at KateLoree.com.