

She believes relationships should be easy-and that, with room for self-reflection and the right toolkit, they can be. She’s particularly enthusiastic about helping softhearted women get re-energized around the dating experience and find joy in the process of connecting with others. With her warm, playful approach to coaching and facilitation, Kelly creates refreshingly candid spaces for processing and healing challenges around dating, sexuality, identity, body image, and relationships. Her work has been featured at The Cut, Vice, Teen Vogue, Cosmopolitan, and elsewhere. She has a degree in journalism from Northwestern University, and she’s been trained and certified by leading sex and relationship institutions such as The Gottman Institute and Everyone Deserves Sex Ed, among others. In addition to working with individuals in her private practice, Kelly serves as the Sex & Relationships Editor at mindbodygreen. Kelly Gonsalves is a multi-certified sex educator and relationship coach helping people figure out how to create dating and sex lives that actually feel good - more open, more optimistic, and more pleasurable. If it's a no, at least you know! And if it's a yes, now the fun stuff begins. It sounds scary, but it definitely doesn't have to be! A simple "Hey, I think you're really cool, and I'm kind of into you-are you into me?" is casual, direct, a little sexy, and also nonthreatening. If you're not sure if a guy likes you but is hiding it, just ask him and let him tell you directly how he feels. That means that even though they like someone, it might be harder for the other person to tell. "For instance, my shy clients sometimes struggle with externalizing their feelings for a crush even in subtle ways. "Some folks may be less able to express their attractions as overtly as this," Battle says. Some guys will do all of the above with their friends, while other guys will like someone but not do any of the above. Here's the thing about trying to know if a guy likes you: Sometimes looking for small signs is never going to give you an accurate full picture of what's going on.
