Dr. Esther Lapite-Garrett PsyD

When a story touches love, sex, or trauma and needs someone who can name what is actually happening in the body and mind rather than describe it from a polite distance, Dr. Esther Lapite-Garrett is the psychologist journalists, and podcast hosts can turn to. She is the founder of Alafiora, a private-pay practice built entirely around three interconnected areas of clinical depth, and one of the few clinicians currently speaking directly to how AI is reshaping all three. Love → love obsession, what many also call love addiction, along with relational dependency, limerence, obsessive attachment, erotomania, tenderness hunger, affection seeking, and the relational patterns increasingly shaped by AI companionship and AI-influenced attachment. Sex → compulsive sexual behavior, sometimes nam...