a podcast
about sexuality, relationships, and health.
One psychotherapist gives you the sex and psych education you didn’t get in social work school…or most likely anywhere.
is ultimately about stories.
Incessant questioner and taboo topic discussant Sarah Kelleher, investigates the most misunderstood and stigmatized sexuality and relational topics.
Disenchanted and downright discouraged by the lack of discussion of sexuality and its impact on overall health during her Master’s of Social Work program, Sarah decided to fill in the gaps for herself. She couldn’t help but wonder how a major aspect of health could be so blatantly disregarded in a field that not only aims to teach but claims to help others reach optimal mental health.
As many therapists do, while along her journey to become a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW), sex educator, and psychotherapist, Sarah found that the information provided was nonexistent and/or basically terrible when it came to sexual and relational health. And the information that was available was very heterosexual, very stigmatizing, very limiting, and very grounded in 19th century old white men. Psych and the City aims to provide real education and conversation about the things we need to know but maybe, for whatever reason, can’t ask.
Through interviewing friends, strangers, and experts in the sexuality and mental health fields, Psych and the City aims to help you learn, unlearn, and question the social scripts we were told were true.
Psych and the City
Meet the Host
Sarah Kelleher is a psychotherapist and sex educator living and working in Brooklyn, NY.
I pursued a Master’s degree in Social Work from New York University after working for many unfulfilled years in healthcare advertising and copywriting. I became a licensed social worker in September 2019. I am pursuing certification to become a holistic sex educator and sex therapist through the Institute of Sexuality Education and Enlightenment.
For three years, I worked in an infectious disease clinic, working with individuals and couples navigating a positive status or mixed status relationships as well as providing HIV prevention and drug and sex education. Now, I work in private practice primarily as a sex, attachment, trauma, and relationships therapist.
I am most passionate about working with and destigmatizing identities, behaviors, and mental health conditions that are perceived to exist on societal margins and are most misunderstood.