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Why Try Sex and Relationship Counseling?
-Has anxiety or not being able to perform as you used to caused issues in your sex life?
-Are you dealing with wounds to your relationship, such as infidelity?
-Are you struggling with communication in your relationship?
-Has not feeling good about your body deterred you from experiencing healthy sex?
If any of these sound familiar to you, it might be time to try Sex and Relationship Counseling. You deserve happy relationships and a healthy sex life -- I can help.
As we grow older, we often experience decreased sexual intimacy as a result of changing life roles or problems with desire and arousal. It’s important that we can talk openly and address these things since sex is a part of our wellness.
That’s exactly what we do in this type of therapy – we resolve issues regarding communication, anxiety, sexual energy, self-concept, and barriers to desire and arousal.
Sex and Relationship Issues Happen to Most of Us
Sex and Relationship Issues Happen to Most of Us
There are lots of reasons we experience decreased sexual connection – we get busy, we get bored, and we experience sexual traumas. Sex is a crucial part of health and wellness, and it’s important to process these things with someone who specializes in these areas.
Sometimes we think we’re the only ones, but there are lots of other people who experience what we do – in fact, sexual pleasure issues are estimated to affect about 43% of women and 31% of men, according to a study by Rosen in 2000.
Sex and relationship issues happen and, with the help of an experienced therapist, we can get you to where you want to be.
Sex and Relationship Counseling Can Help You Regain Pleasure and Satisfaction
Sex and Relationship Counseling Can Help You Regain Pleasure and Satisfaction
In Sex and Relationship Counseling, we work on discovering the roots of the problems using lots of communication. You'll be encouraged to complete homework assignments with your partner/s as well. We’ll discuss the success and struggles you had with the homework, and I’ll likely assign new tasks at the following session.
We'll discuss a whole range of topics in therapy, from your sexual history to mental health, relationships with family, trauma, your sexual interests, and more. Why? Because we are sexual beings, and sex is an important part of our sexual wellness.
So often in therapy we ignore that part of ourselves or think it’s too inappropriate to discuss. Culturally, we may have even been taught that sex is “bad” or that we should feel embarrassed about it.
It’s our job to uncover what those preconceived notions are so that we can heal the sexual part of ourselves.
There are two kinds of energies in relationships — compassion and eroticism, or what we can refer to as Eros.
The opposite of Eros is Thanatos, or death, so if you are alive you have Eros. The compassion is defined as the caring for each other, working together as one team, raising children perhaps, taking care of life responsibilities, going to the movies, spending time with your families.
The Eros is the sexual energy — romance, kissing, sex, intimacy. Eros is a part of being alive, yet we don’t talk about it too often. We might even feel ashamed of it due to cultural issues, familial morals, or traumas in the relationship (e.g., being lied to, cheated on). In Sex and Relationship Counseling, we resolve issues concerning compassion and Eros.
Specific interventions we may focus on include Imago Therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), sensate-focused therapy (e.g., mindfulness during sex), and making referrals to other professionals as needed, such as pelvic floor therapists, physicians, and gynecologists.
You Can Have a Happy and Healthy Sex Life
You deserve happy relationships and fulfilling sex lives, so let’s get you there.
According to research done by the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, families and couples who have attended family or couples therapy sessions indicate high levels of patient satisfaction (GuideDoc, 2021).
Over 98 percent of those surveyed reported that they received good or excellent couples therapy, and over 97 percent of those surveyed said they got the help they needed. After working with a marriage or family therapist, 93 percent of patients said they had more effective tools for dealing with their problems.
You deserve happy relationships and a healthy sex life, so let’s get you there. Schedule an appointment today.
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GuideDoc, R. T. (2021, January 18). Does marriage counseling work? 10 surprising Statistics & Facts. GuideDoc. Retrieved August 29, 2022, from https://guidedoc.com/does-marriage-counseling-work-statistics-facts
Rosen, C. Brown, J. Heiman, S. Leiblum, C. Meston, R. Shabsigh, D. Ferguson, R. D’Agostino (2000) The Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI): A Multidimensional Self-Report Instrument for the Assessment of Female Sexual Function, Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 26:2, 191-208, DOI: 10.1080/009262300278597
The State of Marriage Counseling | MidAmerica Nazarene University. (2017, November 3). MidAmerica Nazarene University. https://www.mnu.edu/graduate/blogs-ideas/the-state-of-marriage-counseling-study
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