EMILY KING

Emily is an Irish somatic sexologist & pleasure activist currently based in Edinburgh. She established her thriving private practice in 2023 & since then has supported hundreds of people through 1:1 & couples client work, various sell-out events & through her online platform, Pleasure Hub.

Emily’s experience within the field of professional sexuality began during her masters thesis project where she researched the effectiveness of using pleasure-based sex education as a tool to eradicate violence against women and girls. She became inspired to train as a relationships and sex educator, and progressed to work in the criminal justice sector to support women in prison as well as their rehabilitation in the community. From here she moved into the gender based violence sector where she continues to work as an advocacy worker for women selling sex in Edinburgh. 

It was during the early months within this role that she sought out somatic sexology training due to the clear gaps left in care by a purely psychological approach to working with women and sexuality. She trained as a somatic sexologist and bodyworker in 2022 and has since trained in Embodied Processing, Root Cause Therapy and specialised training in working with vaginismus and painful sex in women. 

Emily specialises in the needs of women in her private practice and brings a unique approach to somatic sex therapy, grounded in her direct experience of working with complex needs- substance misuse, compulsive sexual behaviour, trauma, domestic abuse, sex work - while pushing boundaries of mainstream therapeutic care to offer people a direct, hands-on & truly holistic avenue of support. 

Alongside her private practice, Emily works with various well-established brands in the sexual wellness industry & has been featured in cosmopolitan, sheerluxe, daily express, & the independent.