Taryn Harvey

With a background in media and Public Relations, I specialised for many years in the areas of sexual and nutritional healthcare, working with many experts in the field of impotence, menopause and nutrition. My profound experience was in meeting the many wonderful people who lived with debilitating disease or dysfunction, making evident the real benefit of promoting healthcare would be to explore and understand the grass roots of wellbeing.

Simply by being open to what else we can do, an abundance of resources became available. By better understanding the communication link between our bodies and minds, there’s evidence to show having a positive mindset and a healthy lifestyle (regular physical activity and nutritional eating) can enhance positive energy flow, helping in the prevention of disease. This sounds obvious, but how is it that we fall out of the rhythm? Often events in our lifetime can make us feel overwhelmed, thus triggering emotional eating and a general lack of interest in taking care of ourselves. When these patterns kick in, it’s difficult to work out why and sometimes we begin to get anxious, even depressed and angry. These spiralling thoughts take up way too much time, and before you know it, it’s hard to remember ever being happy or ‘normal’.

Studies in alternative health highlighted the many ways in which our lives can become more about ‘being’ and less about ‘doing’ or trying too hard to fit in. This in turn inspired me to practice more meditation and honour the holistic arts as part of long term healing.

My focus is on good nutrition and sexual health because I believe these elements are vital in sustaining life, thus my mission is to encourage a person to confront what isn’t working for them, and how certain lifestyle changes may need to occur for one to feel ‘well’. By mentoring and offering support, it is my approach to guide you through this process, helping you understand what feels good and what doesn’t. Often when battling issues of low self esteem or struggling with stressful relationships (love relationships or your own personal one with food and body image) it’s important to have someone on hand to witness from the outside what’s going on for you.

My aim is for you to tap into and build inner resources, plus with insight gain the strength and courage it may take to master positive thoughts and feelings. To be centred and in control will allow a better flow of energy and create balance within our connection to the source and our spirit. Living with love, laughter and passion is essential for everyday health.

• ALSO;   Teaching and counselling about human sexuality.

            a combination of sex education and personal life coaching

• is not a sex therapist, but due to my personal experience and additional training, I am able to balance between both modalities
• allows the individual an opportunity to explore what it is they need to know or better understand about sex
• can help build on self esteem
• supports learning better ways to relate to the opposite sex, or explore their own sexual inhibitions
• will talk less about sexual dysfunction, and more about self expression and education, benchmarking specific areas that may need further resources i.e. counselling in therapy (due to sexual trauma, low self esteem, depression) or medical assistance.In which case I am able to outline the appropriate plan of action and/or offer therapy where appropriate

     A Sex Therapist

• can focus on a specific fear or sexual problem, or dysfunction
• Many sex therapists like myself first receive training in general counselling or psychotherapy and then seek out specialized training in human sexuality 
• A sex therapist should have training in diagnosing and treating sexual dysfunction - I have spent many years speaking & working with sexual health professionals in both erectile dysfunction, testicular and prostate cancers, menopausal issues and depression & from a clinical perspective this has provided essential guidelines and an ethic for positive & supportive outcomes

     A Sexologist

• Someone who studies sex
• Anyone can call themselves a sexologist, and many people with no formal training or education in sexuality use this term to describe themselves as someone who is interested in sex professionally and not just personally