We were lucky to catch up with Elle Fultz recently and have shared our conversation below.

Elle, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. We’d love to hear the backstory behind a risk you’ve taken – whether big or small, walk us through what it was like and how it ultimately turned out.

Taking risks are a part of life. I feel I have taken many risks in my life but the biggest is continuing to believe in myself, pursue my goals and building the life I desire. Taking risk is something I talk to many clients about, specifically within their relationships. IF they want to build the relationship and life they desire, they must be willing to take risk both with themselves and their partner(s). During a very difficult time in my marriage, I had to take risks to be vulnerable and have hard and uncomfortable conversations. It was incredibly hard to be so vulnerable that you feel your partner is seeing your bare bones. But the only way to cultivate and strengthen our bond, attachment and security was to take the risk to truly be seen and heard on a deeper level than before. Once I took the risk with my husband, we were able to build a bond stronger than we have ever had and continue to strengthen it every day. This is what I wish for the people I help and who bare their souls, fears and dreams with me. Take the risk to pursue the life and relationship you dream of.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

I am a licensed professional counselor (LPC) and have been providing psychotherapy for many years but truly enjoy helping individuals and couples access their emotional, vulnerable selves and improve their sexual/physical intimacy. I am an AASECT Certified therapist which provides me the knowledge and skills to help people discuss their sexual/physical intimacy concerns in a safe and ex positive space. I also provide Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) to help couples be more vulnerable to build a stronger attachment and security within their relationship with their partner(s). I have always enjoyed helping others and found comfort an interest in helping people with their intimacy concerns. I am currently in the final stages of creating an online course couples can go through from the comfort of their home to open communication around sex and intimacy, explore and learn about themselves and their partner. I am always so proud of clients who take the risk of sharing their lives and hard places to create the relationship they desire and be their authentic selves. Talking about sex shouldn’t be scary! It should be connecting, exploratory and fun!

Can you tell us about what’s worked well for you in terms of growing your clientele?

Honestly I think being authentic to myself when working with my clients has been the best. When I am authentic in my life and work, client’s can feel and see this. This leads them to trusting my and sharing me as a resource to others in their life or community. Additionally, networking and putting yourself out there on search sites or social media (@Fultzsextherapy) can be helpful as well. Giving yourself permission to take chances and grind can be hard, but if your goal is to build your business, sometimes you have to really commit! But ultimately, creating a safe and non-judgmental space has been imperative in helping me grow more clientele in my field.

Do you think you’d choose a different profession or specialty if you were starting now?

A thousand times yes! I regret not getting into the field working with clients and participating in the trainings sooner. Unfortunately, I do not feel my schooling was very good when helping learn how to create a business and actually working in the field outside of school. Due to this, when I first finished school, my first job was working in state mental health and focusing on a lot of general mental health and addiction. While I am grateful for all the experience and growth I learned there, ultimately it was not my passion. I was continuously excited about the idea of working with couples and individuals around their sexual intimacy concerns and helping them strengthen their relationship. I learned later that I could have pursued this sooner and worked in private practice. So sometimes it does feel like years lost, however, I continued to work and create the practice I desired. I have continued to be excited by the clientele and people I work with. I feel 100% that I am in the right place in my life and in the right field to help people where it is so hard and not often talked about in our society as much as it should be.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://Fultztherapy.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fultzsextherapy/
• Other: TikTok – https://www.tiktok.com/@the.fit.sex.therapist?_t=8mvfoRDsFoM&_r=1