Couples Sexual Therapy

Couples come to sex therapy because they wish to improve their intimate and sexual relationships. Couple’s therapy is not limited to married couples. “Couples” may be straight, same sex couples, married, unmarried or dating. Couple’s sex therapy is most effective when both partners are present for most the sessions. However, if you partner is unable or unwilling to attend therapy you may proceed with individual counseling.

Common reasons for therapy:

Learn or improve communication skills around sex and intimacy; wants, needs, preferences

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Develop a better understanding of each other’s sexual backgrounds and other life influences

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Learn effective ways of giving and receiving expressions of love, touch and pleasure

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Sex education: male and female anatomy and sexual functioning

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Improve intimacy and connection

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Rebuild trust after an affair, or other forms of betrayal

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Learn new ways for sexual exploration

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Address sexual concerns such as desire discrepancies, sexual style discrepancies, compulsive sexual behaviors, sexual anxieties or aversions, sexual functioning concerns

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Sexual changes due to pregnancy

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Understand and adapt to the influences of medical concerns on sexual functioning and intimacy

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Sexual changes due to Infertility

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Heal from past sexual abuse as a couple and understanding the influences on the relationship