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Press and media

Interviews, podcasts and speaking

I contribute to podcasts, interviews and broadcast on relational psychology, attachment, performance pressure, sexual self-image and existential alignment.

Conversations are structured and psychologically grounded, and oriented toward clarity rather than sensationalism.

As featured in TNT, Woman&Home, Cosmopolitan, The Sun, DNA, Daily Mail, New, Asian Woman, Female First, Fabulous
Subject areas

What I'm usually asked about

Relationships and attachment Why couples disconnect, what keeps a pattern running, infidelity, and the difference between a communication problem and a structural one.
Burnout and performance High-functioning exhaustion, performance anxiety, and why success and alignment are not the same thing.
Sexuality and self-image Sexual self-image as core psychology rather than a separate topic, and how it runs through confidence, power and intimacy.
Conflict and mediation What people are really arguing about, how separating couples reach agreement, and what happens to the practitioner in the room.
The Six Domains Model A systemic framework covering the psychological, emotional, relational, physical, financial and spiritual, and why treating one in isolation rarely holds.
Meaning and direction Existential questions in ordinary language: what a life is for, and what happens when the answer stops working.

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CredentialsDr Massimo Stocchi-Fontana PhD. Psychologist, clinical sexologist, and a WTA mediator registered with the FMA. ABS certified, cert. 24011.
FormatsPodcast, panel, live broadcast, written comment and expert quotes. Remote or in person.
LanguagesEnglish, Spanish and Italian.
BasedSouthern Spain, working between Spain and the UK. Central European Time.
TurnaroundI can usually respond to a comment request within 24 hours. For live or recorded segments, give me as much notice as you can.
What I won't doComment on named individuals, diagnose anyone I haven't assessed, or take a segment where the framing is designed to shock rather than inform.

Podcast appearances

Conversations recorded with podcast hosts for general audiences.

These are podcast conversations, not clinical teaching. Several discuss sex explicitly, and some touch on trauma. Episode titles and framing are the hosts' own.

Relationships, attachment and family

Patterns, affairs, and what people inherit from the family they grew up in.

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Bridging the gap in your relationship

What sits underneath disconnection in a long relationship, and why date nights rarely reach it.

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Infidelity: the psychology of the other woman

How affairs begin, what keeps someone inside one, and the difference between attention and intention.

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I'm in a happy relationship, so why am I thinking about someone else?

Attraction that arrives inside a good relationship, and what it usually signals rather than what people fear it means.

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Healing from toxic, damaging or narcissistic parenting

What a difficult parent leaves behind, what can be repaired in adulthood, and what has to be accepted instead.

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Is seduction always manipulative?

Where influence ends and manipulation begins, and why that line matters more than it first sounds.

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Desire, intimacy and the body

Clinical sexology for a general audience. Explicit in places.

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Using the sexual flow state to find love

Dating from a different starting point than the apps encourage, and what changes when you stop auditioning.

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How men can understand and align with her pleasure cycle

The menstrual cycle as relational information rather than something to be survived.

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The RDBSMA conversation

Relationship status, desire, boundaries, sexual health, meaning and aftercare. The six things worth establishing beforehand rather than afterwards.

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Spontaneous or responsive desire?

What looks like mismatched libido is often mismatched style. How to tell the difference and how to name it.

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High, low and mismatched libidos

The range of sex drive, orgasm used as escape, and the causes sitting underneath both ends of the scale.

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Crying after sex: is it normal?

Post-coital tears as physical release, as emotional release, and when they point at something older.

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Sex happens in our bodies, so why are we in our heads?

Spectatoring, performance anxiety and body image, and how people get back into the body they are in.

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Arousal, breath and edging

How breath and arousal interact, and a frank discussion of the physical risks in practices people rarely ask about safely.

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When casual sex doesn't feel casual

Why it is straightforward for some people and destabilising for others, and what attachment has to do with the difference.

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We're having sex, not going to the circus

Expectation, performance, and the gap between what sex is sold as and what it is for.

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Bodies, shame and the stories we inherit

Where the shame attached to particular bodies comes from, and who it serves.

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How to seduce a man: a male sexologist's perspective

What actually registers, described from the other side of it.

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Interviews, panels and speaking engagements

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