Professional Achievements: Book, Article, Chapter, and Presentations
I Wrote a Book!
After 5 years of work on it, I can finally announce that my book, The Better Man: A Guide to Consent, Stronger Relationships, and Hotter Sex, is available for preorder. Learn more here.
Publications
Wall, K., Nye, F., & FitzMedrud, E. (2013). Psychospiritual integrative practices. In G. Hartelius & H. Friedman (Eds.) The Handbook of Transpersonal Psychology. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
Wall, K. Warner, A. & FitzMedrud, E. & Meritt, K.(2015) Self-compassion in psychotherapy: A psycho-spiritual integrative therapy approach. I n T. G. Plante (Ed.), The Psychology of Compassion and Cruelty: Understanding the Emotional, Spiritual, and Religious Influences. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger.
Presentations
FitzMedrud, E., & Randall, A (2017, June). Ethics and multiple relationships when therapists serve their sexual minority communities. Presented at the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists Annual Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
FitzMedrud, E. (2017, February). Polyamory agreements 101: For therapists. Presented at the SAAR International Academic Polyamory Conference, Berkeley, California.
FitzMedrud, E. (2017, February). Polyamory: A quick introduction. Presented at the SAAR International Academic Polyamory Conference, Berkeley, California.
FitzMedrud, E. (2016, March). Keeping your relationship strong while parenting. Presented at Parent’s Nursery School Parent Education Night, Palo Alto, CA.
FitzMedrud, E. (2016, February). Polyamory: A quick introduction. Presented at the SAAR International Academic Polyamory Conference, Berkeley, California.
FitzMedrud, E. (2016, February). Dealing with desire differences and deadlocks: A clinician’s guide. Presented for The Alternative Sexualities Health Research Alliance (TASHRA) training for Mental Health Care Professionals.
FitzMedrud, E. (2015, November). Sex, intimacy, and cancer. In Sharing Knowledge & Inspiring Hope. Presented at Bay Area Cancer Connections Annual Conference & Resource Fair.
FitzMedrud, E., Sauln, C. Langer, K., & Remigio, R. (2012, February). Spiritually oriented psychotherapy in community mental health settings. In Spirituality: Promises and pitfalls. Presented at the Association of Transpersonal Psychology/Institute of Transpersonal Psychology biannual conference.
FitzMedrud, E. (2013, October). A clinical model for sensitivity to spirituality. In Therapeutic Issues of Spiritually Transformative Experiences. Poster presented at American Center for Spiritually Transformative Experiences, 2nd annual conference.
Blog Achievements
I used to say that me blogging was more an act of subservience to the search-bot overlords than of much practical value or that my writing was just me toiling away in obscurity on my private little corner of the internet. However, as I have kept the practice up, more and more of my clients say that they selected me from among other options because of what they read on my blog.
Then one site decided to list my blog as being in the top 100. It felt nice to see that my writing is reaching more people. For what it is worth:
