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Laurie Watson, PhD, MA, LMFT, LCMHC, Director of Awakenings, certified sex therapist has thirty years of experience working with couples and individuals about love and sex. Laurie says, \\u201cI\\u2019ve never seen a couple who I didn\\u2019t feel hope about their healing and happiness. The difficulty is convincing them to give up the idea that only their partner will have to change!\\u201d

She\\u2019s the host of the popular podcast, FOREPLAY RADIO\\u2014Couples and Sex Therapy ranked in the top 10 in iTunes under Sexuality. Laurie authored her first book Wanting Sex Again\\u2014How to Rediscover Desire and Heal a Sexless Marriage (Penguin) in December 2012. A popular blogger for the general public with over 12.5 million reads on Psychology Today Online in Married and Still Doing It, Laurie also lectures physician residents, PAs and PTs at Duke\\u2019s and UNC Chapel Hill\\u2019s medical schools on sexual function and dysfunction. Featured in her hometown in the N&O, Laurie has also been published or quoted in most every nationally popular media resource including the New York Times, Buzzfeed, HuffPo, WebMD, Glamour, Women\\u2019s Health, Men\\u2019s Health, Cosmopolitan, etc. A popular media figure, she has appeared on the Katie Couric Show and is regularly on radio and television in Raleigh and Greensboro.

Director/owner of Awakenings, Counseling for Couples and Sexuality, Laurie supervises 11 clinicians in both Raleigh and Greensboro.\\xa0 Her podcast FOREPLAY RADIO\\u2014Couples and Sex Therapy is frequently ranked in the top 6-8 sexuality podcasts on iTunes.