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By Susanna Casubolo
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e are here for “IM Italian magazine” with Dr. Selene Gemelli, whom I have known for some time because we have worked together in the social field. She was born as an educator, became passionate about consultancy, and created a project dedicated to a particular target. Meanwhile, Susanna, it’s a pleasure to see you again. “SHER” is a program of voices, born and designed especially for women or people belonging to the LGBT community. It was created, above all, to help and guide people to improve the sentimental and sexual aspects of their life, which is why the specific target of this project refers above all to people who have already achieved professional or life goals, in short, satisfactory, but that in the explicit and sexual aspect fail to arrive at the satisfaction that in short, they desire. Very often, the people I work with start from a solid base of malaise or, in any case, from substantial uncertainty and doubt regarding this inability to achieve this satisfaction. And how did you come to this target? Then I get there both with me. In short, you anticipated at the beginning during
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the presentation I get there for a professional passion referring to the fact that I have a strong experience, especially with women victims of trafficking, abuse and maltreatment, for which I have been busy for many years with women who were in difficulty. And then there is a very personal aspect which refers precisely to the fact of having been a part of this problem in the first person in the sense that I am a bisexual woman. Well then, explore the issues that clients bring you and to work on. And by the way, you also work in close contact with some psychotherapists, one of which is me. In short, supported from that point of view. Let’s explore, I try to throw in some keywords so maybe it binds to talk about it a bit. And the first that comes to mind is freedom. Freedom the word freedom undoubtedly comes to mind women who feel insecure and unhappy, are dissatisfied and have perhaps achieved this economic, social, and working freedom within their families. But they are unable to feel free on a sentimental and sexual level. But even more, people who belong to the LGBTQ Plus world come to mind and who find this muscular discomfort of acceptance of approval.
