Do we need sex therapy?


How are your sexual relations affecting the rest of your relationship? How much stress and anxiety is the problem causing you? How much anxiety or distress is the problem causing your partner?

If your desires do not match and it is causing problems, if intercourse is painful, or if you have touble achieving orgasm you may benefit from sex therapy. Sex therapy is not only for those with impotence or other devasting sexual problems; it is also for couples who are not feeling satisfied with their sex lives or who are having sexual difficulties.

Many people are reluctant to seek sex therapy. They may feel embarrassed to discuss something so private. The sex therapist is there to help facilitate healing, learning and growth in the areas of sexual intimacy. The goal of this relationship counseling is to help couples reach their potential and to be happy. It focuses more on intimacy and sex than other relationship issues, these however may impact your sex life as well. If there are specific sex problems these can and will be addressed. Sex therapy is talk therapy with the counselor guiding the couple through their concerns. It is also most successful when you are in a committed relationship.