What is Sex Therapy?
Sex Therapy is : a highly specialized type of psychotherapy that addresses the intersection of mental health, emotional wellbeing, behavioral concerns and relational issues and sexual function, intimacy, desire and pleasure. Intimacy issues can be addressed individually or within partnerships. Sex therapy can even help families find more balance and ease talking and addressing sexual concerns with their children.
Sex Therapy is NOT : sex therapy with a licensed sex therapist never involves nudity, touch, or sexual behavior. It is outside of my scope of work and ethical professional standards to have sexual or social relationships with clients of any kind.
I often provide clients with empirically grounded, practical homework to try at home which is often accompanied by relevant resources, readings and videos.
Who is Sex Therapy for? : people from all walks of life can benefit from gaining accurate and comprehensive knowledge of how bodies function, develop self-love and confidence to advocate for emotional, sexual, and physical needs as well as becoming more effective at communicating with loved ones around sensitive topics. Sex therapy can often help families, couples, and individuals gain more confidence, restore or improve sexual health, communicate more effectively, and work on achieving a more fulfilling sex life and sexual identity.
Why I Love Sex Therapy: Becoming a Sex Therapist was a very natural and exciting process for me. I have always found sexuality an essential and fascinating topic. I find profound meaning and purpose in helping my clients integrate, transform and embody pleasure, presence, wholeness and health in their lives and relationships. My approach is strengths based, non-judgmental, and compassionate. Building trust and vulnerability is an essential key in our work together.
Sex Therapy for Couples: Relationships can simultaneously be the most rewarding, love-filled endeavors we embark on as well as the most painful and frustrating hardships.
Sex Therapy is NOT : sex therapy with a licensed sex therapist never involves nudity, touch, or sexual behavior. It is outside of my scope of work and ethical professional standards to have sexual or social relationships with clients of any kind.
I often provide clients with empirically grounded, practical homework to try at home which is often accompanied by relevant resources, readings and videos.
Who is Sex Therapy for? : people from all walks of life can benefit from gaining accurate and comprehensive knowledge of how bodies function, develop self-love and confidence to advocate for emotional, sexual, and physical needs as well as becoming more effective at communicating with loved ones around sensitive topics. Sex therapy can often help families, couples, and individuals gain more confidence, restore or improve sexual health, communicate more effectively, and work on achieving a more fulfilling sex life and sexual identity.
Why I Love Sex Therapy: Becoming a Sex Therapist was a very natural and exciting process for me. I have always found sexuality an essential and fascinating topic. I find profound meaning and purpose in helping my clients integrate, transform and embody pleasure, presence, wholeness and health in their lives and relationships. My approach is strengths based, non-judgmental, and compassionate. Building trust and vulnerability is an essential key in our work together.
Sex Therapy for Couples: Relationships can simultaneously be the most rewarding, love-filled endeavors we embark on as well as the most painful and frustrating hardships.
- sexual desire/template discrepancy (difference in sexual desire or preference)
- divorce prevention (overcoming long-term relationship stress and finding a new normal)
- conscious uncoupling (processing and bringing closure to a relationship that is no longer healthy. This process uses integrity, compassion, respect and vulnerability to gently separate)
- premarital issues (gain skills to smoothly navigate the road bumps of marriage)
- repairing after an affair (healing and repairing trust and satisfaction after infidelity)
Common Presenting Sex Therapy Issues
- Lack of Connection & Intimacy
- Desire Discrepancy/Mismatched Libido
- Recovery/Reconnection after Infidelity/Affair
- Sexual Dysfunction
- Polyamory
- Sex after Trauma and major Transitions
- Loss of desire
- Difficult arousal
- Sex & Aging
- Performance anxiety
- Sexual abuse
- Anorgasmia
- Body image
