Queen City Healthy Sex and Relationships

Sophia Dorton Caudle, PhD

Hi, I’m Dr. Sophia and I am so excited to bring over 25 years of professional experience to my new office in Charlotte. I specialize in all things related to human sexuality and development, such as creating intimacy and connection, sex therapy, sex addiction, love addiction and codependent relationships, as well as LGBTQIA and transgender care. Feel free to check out my Durham office website www.bullcitypsychotherap y.com to see what I have been up to professionally.

For people who want to feel better faster and live the life of their dreams, I offer High Speed Intensive Therapy, which is a much faster method to heal and feel better. Intensive sessions are longer and help promote deep healing, as well as intimacy and connection.

I also specialize in healing early attachment wounding, called Original Grief©, as grief is the foundational feeling state that must be worked through in order to grow into deep and satisfying intimate relationships.

I am passionate about working with individuals and couples as they grow and learn to have satisfying and great sex. Sex Therapy is a speciality area of focus for me, and I have extensive training to work with all kinds of people on the human sexuality continuum, such as problematic sexual behaviors, kink/fetishes, polyamorous relationships, sexual dysfunctions, menopause, difficulty to orgasm, and most importantly how to create intimacy and connection again after the fire has faded.

For the past 25 years, I have also become a valued resource for high achieving, high profile individuals in business and sports, who require privacy and strong, direct and effective therapy and personal coaching. Sometimes, people in positions of power can make poor decisions or participate in unhelpful behaviors that create issues not only for themselves, but their families, companies, team mates, and organizations. I am especially talented at working with this population in corporate and sports organizations.

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Dr. Sophia’s Healing Shop

Visit Dr. Sophia’s Healing Shop where you can browse and learn more about her online workshops, E-Books, audio recordings and future live workshops.

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I’m A Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor and Supervisor, Certified Sex Addiction Supervisor, Certified Sex Therapist, Certified Multiple Addiction Therapist Supervisor, and Certified Transgender Care Therapist

I specialize in individual and group psychotherapy for adults and couples. I also conduct online workshops for Sex and Love Addiction, Original Grief©, Modern Codependency©, Modern Dating, and Sex & Food Co-occurring Addictions for people all over the world. I also supervise counselors who are in the process of obtaining their LCMHC.

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Certified Sex Therapist

Licensed mental health professionals, trained to provide in-depth psychotherapy, who have specialized in treating clients with sexual issues and concerns.

Couples Therapy

Couples therapy provides a supportive environment for partners to navigate challenges, enhance communication, and strengthen their relationship.

Menopause

a natural biological process marking the end of a woman’s reproductive years, characterized by hormonal changes that can lead to various symptoms such as hot flashes and mood swings.

Individual Therapy

Individual therapy offers a confidential space for personal exploration, self-reflection, and the development of coping strategies to address individual concerns and promote mental well-being.

Certified Sex Therapist

Licensed mental health professionals, trained to provide in-depth psychotherapy, who have specialized in treating clients with sexual issues and concerns.

Couples Therapy

Couples therapy provides a supportive environment for partners to navigate challenges, enhance communication, and strengthen their relationship.

Individual Therapy

Individual therapy offers a confidential space for personal exploration, self-reflection, and the development of coping strategies to address individual concerns and promote mental well-being.

Menopause

a natural biological process marking the end of a woman’s reproductive years, characterized by hormonal changes that can lead to various symptoms such as hot flashes and mood swings.

Sophia Dorton Caudle, PhD is a Certified Sex Therapist (CST), and has a great deal of professional training to help people heal and experience safe and satisfying sexual expression throughout the lifespan.

‘I especially enjoy helping couples emotionally heal through trauma and grief, then come together to experience physical and emotional intimacy.

I also appreciate working with individuals who have sexual trauma and they would like to work through this, so they can experience safe and intimate sex.’

Sophia Dorton Caudle, PhD also specializes in menopause and helping women feel sexy and enjoy sex during and after menopause.

‘Women are amazing sexual beings. We have the power to feel sexy, regardless of what our hormones tell us as we age. Being connected to our true self, exactly where we are, and expressing our sexuality is possible, even if our body is changing. Luckily there is support for women to experience sexual pleasure after menopause.’

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Frequently Asked Questions

Into-Me-You-See……Intimacy.

Intimacy is organic and intentional, chosen closeness with another. When in a healthy intimate relationship, we are fully known, seen, heard, and accepted. For most of us, we must be very mindful about learning the tools of intimacy, because our attachment was disrupted when we were very young, and we need to learn certain skills before we can truly show up in our adult relationships how we want to.

Absolutely and 100%! In fact, as we get older and become more mature, it is very likely that we will be MORE willing to do what it takes to learn healthy intimacy that we can share with our partner. If both people want to learn to create healthy connection and intimacy, it is very possible to do. In sex and relationship therapy, we have many exercises that are very easy and helpful to build intimacy. Interestedly, intimacy skills building is also very important and also easy for singles to do, in preparation for future relationships. There are also certain typed of therapy that can quickly help us heal old wounds and move forward to being ready for intimacy.

Frequently engaging in more sex and with more partners than intended.

Being preoccupied with or persistently craving sex. Or wanting and trying to cut down and unsuccessfully attempting to limit sexual activity.

Thinking of sex to the detriment of other activities or continually engaging in excessive sexual practices despite a desire to stop.

Spending considerable time in activities related to sex, such as cruising for partners or spending hours online visiting pornographic Web sites.

Neglecting obligations such as work, school or family in pursuit of sex.

Continually engaging in the sexual behavior despite negative consequences, such as broken relationships or potential health risks.

Escalating scope or frequency of sexual activity to achieve the desired effect, such as more frequent visits to prostitutes or more sex partners.

Feeling irritable when unable to engage in the desired behavior.

Am I a sex addict? PATHOS Questionnaire

A positive response to just one question would indicate a need for additional assessment. Two or more positive responses indicates the possibility of sexual addiction. If you answered, “YES” to one or more of these questions, please contact us for an appointment.

1. Do you often find yourself preoccupied with sexual thoughts? [Preoccupied]   

2. Do you hide some of your sexual behavior from others? [Ashamed]   

3. Have you ever sought help for sexual behavior you did not like? [Treatment]   

4. Has anyone been hurt emotionally because of your sexual behavior? [Hurt others]   

5. Do you feel controlled by your sexual desire? [Out of control]   

6. When you have sex, do you feel depressed afterwards? [Sad]   

Healthy sex is going to look different for each couple, individual, or polyamorous relationship. There is no one definition or picture of what healthy sex is or looks like. However, we do know what traits must be included in a sexually healthy relationship. Some of these traits are: safety, freedom, enjoyment, fulfillment, intimacy, connection, feeling valued, important, seen, heard, and interdependent.

Narcissistic abuse is a very painful relationship experience. Oftentimes we do not even know we are in a relationship with someone who has narcissistic tendencies until it is too late. Some narcissists are sneaky and covert, and they weasel themselves in our lives without us understanding what’s really going on, or what we are being set up for. Other narcissists are direct and selfish and it is easy to see what they are about. Either way the pain is overwhelming. As with most other painful experiences we want to heal from, we need to focus on ourselves and our own personal growth work, and not the other person in order to heal. For instance, focusing on our own healing recovery work, feeling the deep grief from the narcissistic relationship, and building our sense of self is a good plan for healing from narcissistic abuse, among many other tools. Please contact us to schedule for this very specific healing work.

Nurturing Intimacy, Fostering Connection: Your Path to Wellness with Queen City Healthy Sex and Relationships.

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