Have you lost your passion and sexiness in the bedroom?
Do you want to have an intimate, hot sex life?
Wanting more pleasurable and frequent sex?
Arguing about sex and intimacy?
Do you wonder if certain emotions might be holding you or your partner back from being sexually open and passionate with each other? Also, are feelings like anger, anxiety, or betrayal limiting your ability to be trusting, have fun, and sexually expressive? Intimacy therapy and marriage counseling at Wisdom Within can help!
Do you question your gender or sexual orientation and want a therapist who is passionate about LGBTQIA+ affirming counseling? We are glad you’re here. These are all great reasons to reach out to a professional and seek a specialized form of counseling. Gender, intimacy, and sexuality issues are not something a general therapist has speciality training in.
The team of therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling in Connecticut are specialists with couples and are passionate about helping couples improve their sex life. Wisdom Within Counseling and Coaching is a group offering queer and transgender affirming intimacy therapy in Mystic, Connecticut.
To begin, click below to book a phone consult for intimacy therapy and marriage counseling.
Why start in intimacy therapy and marriage counseling in Mystic, Connecticut?
Stressors on a marriage
Over the course of a romantic relationship and marriage, couples may have a series of challenges and emotional issues arise. Infidelity and betrayal is one of the major issues that brings bubbles to counseling. Miss matched sexual desires, differences in libido, or sexless marriage are also great reasons to reach out for intimacy therapy and marriage counseling.
As well, in the category of sex is also religion. Certain religious upbringing, childhood viewpoints, and cultural believes play a role in sexual expression and healthy sex life.
Overall, intimacy therapy and marriage counseling in Mystic, Connecticut can help you talk about religious viewpoints and start to see eye to eye.
The female orgasm in couples therapy and intimacy therapy
For women, couples therapy and intimacy therapy can include talking about how to achieve an orgasm. As well, there is a lot of sexual pressure in our society. Women can learn how to pleasure themselves, feel empowerment around pleasure, and talk about their sexual needs in a calm way only from going to therapy. In school, women are not taught about their physical body, anatomy, or how to achieve an orgasm.
Additionally, sexual trauma plays a big role in sexual expression for a woman. At times, a woman may experience a little to no desire and a very low sex drive.
Essentially, after trauma, a woman closes up and stops trusting.
Working with a marriage therapist can help to pinpoint these sexual challenges while removing any blame or self-criticism.
When there are complex traumas and a past history of sexual abuse or sexual assault, Therapy can help a woman and her romantic partner build security and trust.
After sexual abuse and sexual trauma, a woman may feel like her body is dirty or that she is unworthy of love. In couples therapy, overcoming sexual trauma is possible and can help with sexual expression in a positive way.
What is intimacy therapy and marriage counseling in Mystic, Connecticut like for men?
In addition, intimacy therapy and marriage counseling sessions can be helpful for a man too. So, a man can begin working on challenges like premature ejaculation. Sometimes, a man becomes aroused much too quickly.
This can lead to a dissatisfying sexual experience for their partner. Prolonging ejaculation can be done by giving relationship and couples therapy homework. A rating scale can be positive to understand how sexually aroused your partner is. You can use it in a sexual activity or in general.
Your intimacy therapy and marriage counseling in Mystic, Connecticut can provide you with that scale and ask you to use the scale throughout your week. You can talk about how the intimacy therapy and marriage counseling be homework went with your therapist and your next session.
Erectile dysfunction is a major issue as well for couples.
Intimacy therapy and marriage counseling can help address emotional challenges present here. Erectile dysfunction has an emotional impact on men and self-esteem. Many times, men with erectile dysfunction feel down and depressed about it, but don’t know where to go for help.
Also, erectile dysfunction can leave a man feeling insecure and doubting his own sexual abilities.
In couples therapy and intimacy therapy, a man can learn how to love and accept himself. Therapy helps to remove the anxiety and pressures of performance that our culture places on men. Many times, men feel it is their duty to make their partner orgasm.
So, intimacy therapy and marriage counseling in Mystic, Connecticut can help alleviate this sexual performance anxiety. A man can learn how to cope with anxiety and shift his mental state to relaxation and confidence. And, his partner can lean to accept and comfort him in sexual moments also.
Different skills and techniques can be offered from a sex and relationship therapist to help a man improve his erectile dysfunction.
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Intimacy therapy and marriage counseling in Mystic, Connecticut helps with OCD around sex.
As well, some men experience obsessive sexual behaviors. A man might have a very high sex drive and feel like he must have sex multiple times a day. Out-of-control behavior around sex can challenge a marriage and a romantic relationship.
Trauma and being a survivor of sexual abuse can cause a man to be overly or under sexual. As well, intimacy therapy and marriage counseling can be helpful if a man has a history of sexual trauma, sexual assault, or molestation. As a child or adolescent, if a man was sexually touched in an unwanted way, this impacts him for life.
Holistic intimacy therapy and marriage counseling in Mystic, Connecticut helps to heal sexual trauma and sexual abuse
On that note, sexual trauma plays a major role in challenges with sexual expression and hyper or hypo sexual energy in adulthood. In general, intimacy therapy and marriage counseling in Mystic, Connecticut can help to address trauma responses and hyper or hypo sexualized behavior.
Often, due to trauma and disassociation, the act of sex becomes separate from the true self. So, a person stops feeling intimate and that part needs reintegration through therapy for trauma healing. Intimacy therapy and marriage therapy can help you if you are dealing with any of the above issues.
Working too much causes a sexless relationship
As well, another important reason why a couple seek couples therapy, intimacy therapy, and relationship counseling is because they work too much.
Couples do not know how to make time to prioritize each other.
Also, the glitter and sparkly part of the relationship dies down. It’s hard to get back to good sex too. Maybe, it started because you feel pressure to make money, maintain your home, and save for your children’s college education. In our society, there are a lot of financial pressures ani matter your gender, to be successful.
But, emphasis on emotional success is not talked about. And, emotional closeness and empathy really matter in and for a loving, healthy, positive marriage.
A lot of couples reach out for counseling because they want to schedule time, such as with an intimacy therapy and marriage counseling, to feel closer. Scheduling intimacy therapy and marriage counseling sessions and relationship counseling and help you improve your sex life. You can learn how to train yourself to be sexually expressive together again.
As well, you can learn to talk with your partner about fears, inhibitions, and insecurities that hold you back from being your authentic self.
Furthermore, if your work life and career is preventing you from enjoying your own sexuality, reach out for relationship counseling in Mystic, Connecticut today.
What can you do to set your marriage up for success?
Now, when you get home from work, you might feel angry because of a challenging day. And, it might seem easy to start unloading this work stress on your family members who are at home.
Now, see if you can do a meditation for five or 10 minutes before you leave your office to clear your mind. This way, you can return home feeling alive, happy, and excited to see your family memories.
Your spouse will also feel uplifted from seeing you excited to see them as well. If when you get home, you are cranky, see you at self-care practice can help you feel peaceful.
For example, you might need to take a 20 minute shower when you get home from work or at Epson salt magnesium bath to relieve anxiety. Taking a bath or a shower can help you decompress, feel calm, rejuvenate your mind, and feel present.
To begin, click below for a phone consult for intimacy therapy and marriage counseling to better your sex life.
Simply put, going to intimacy therapy and marriage counseling can help you understand what you need to do to bring your best self into the relationship.
To note, relationships only get better when you have a strong self love toolbox and positive coping strategies for conflict repairs. If emotions are running high, reach out for couples therapy and relationship counseling today. By learning to channel intense emotions like anger and anxiety in healthy ways, sexual energy, desire, and passion and your relationship will improve.
Schedule time for intimacy and sex
Right now, with the daily chaos and family overwhelm, it might be really hard to think about fitting your partner into your life. Overtime, distant couples get farther and farther apart. Distant couples start doing hobbies with other people and spending more and more time away from each other.
Fortunately, couples therapy can give you time to do something together. In the mean time, here is a recommendation for building emotional intimacy. Right now, go to your romantic partner. Physically find them to be closer emotionally and offer affection. If you are in a different room right now, go walk and sit right next to them where they are.
Furthermore, put what you’re doing aside to prioritize them and your marriage.
Reach for your partner‘s hand and offer love. Essentially, be the first person to go for it and be affectionate. Feel the warmth of your partner’s palm when you hold their hand. Then, look them in the eye and tell them you love them. Also, make sure to initiate some type of healing, loving touch.
Now, for many couples, this type of emotionally intimate interaction is awkward, and they might even start fighting or getting angry. Relationship therapy can make learning communication skills like this easier. Therefore, if you are in a relationship and feel frustration or anger, reach out for relationship therapy today.
Frequently, intense emotions like jealousy, anger, betrayal, and sadness play a role in a negative or lack of sex life. Lastly, intimacy therapy and marriage counseling in Mystic, Connecticut can help you and your spouse work through emotional challenges together while feeling like a team again.
What is intimacy therapy and marriage counseling all about anyway?
Well, couples therapy and intimacy therapy is about learning to love and accept yourself. Simply put, you can learn to feel beautiful just the way you are.
Your Mystic, Connecticut intimacy therapy and marriage counseling journey is freeing. Your therapist can teach you specific tools and techniques to relax your body, clear your mind, and connect to the spiritual world.
You can learn to step in to a feeling of enlightenment by building positive coping strategies.
As well, you can learn to communicate with your partner in the clear and calm ways.
Right now, you might even be having arguments or fights about more sex. Working with a marriage therapist can help you feel confident being in your body and living in your skin. Being sexy is healthy and natural!
How can couples therapy and intimacy therapy help with culture wand religious sexual tension?
Religious views can be limiting. For instance, if you grew up in a strict religious home where sex was not talked about, you might have shame about your body or guilt about having sex.
Therapy helps you separate the two things that are important.
to you.
One being that you deserve to feel pleasure and it is beautiful to feel pleasure. And, the second being what religious values are important to you and how do you define them while feeling pleasure.
Some religions do not allow sex before marriage. So, if a person has sex before marriage, they develop internal shame and guilt. Intimacy therapy and marriage counseling is all about removing cultural shame and guilt.
The team at Wisdom Within Counseling can help you feel attractive, desirable, and express your sexuality in a positive way.
Additionally, you can learn to overcome PTSD trauma triggers, and truly allow yourself to enjoy a pleasurable sexual experience in a safe and consensual way. To add, maybe you are a person who has a love language in touch and you’re feeling rejection from your partner. That can be really tough.
There is hope in working with one of the therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling. The team are experts when it comes to distant, lonely couples who deeply want to rebuild a loving connection, and passionate sex life. In time, your sexuality and sex life can become a part of your relationship that brings you joy.
As well, in intimacy therapy and marriage counseling, you can learn to spice up and create variations if your sex life is dull or repetitive.
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Creative expressive therapies for couples building a healthy sex life
Overall, the team of therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling love helping couples with a mixture of creative art therapies. Using expressive arts, drama therapy, yoga therapy, music therapy, and outdoor walking therapies in nature by the beach, the team of counselors help couples reconnect.
Many times, distant couples need help bonding, reuniting, and deepening communication and positive conversations.
In addition, these creative therapy offerings such as painting, drama therapy, or meditation and mindfulness provide couples with emotional connection.
Creative intimacy therapy and marriage counseling in Mystic, Connecticut helps distant couples build healthy communication
Create a more secure, trusting relationship, and a better sex life than you ever imagined
You can develop a newfound sense of freedom to pleasure yourself. In addition, you can feel confident pleasuring yourself. As well, you can learn to enjoy receiving pleasure, and pleasuring others. More so, you can learn about consent and healthy boundaries in intimacy therapy and marriage counseling.
On another note, culture education is a great part of couples therapy and intimacy therapy.
Our culture puts a lot of other necessary pressure on us to be perfect. And, we bring this anxiety and pressure into the bedroom. So, relationship therapy can help you overcome myths about sex that you may think are true from culture.
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Part of a happy sex life is relaxing into the present moment.
Couples also learn to stay calm, breathe deeply, center themselves and create relaxation.
Also, a calm nervous system, helps couples finally relax and truly enjoy each other in the bedroom. If you are stressed out all the time from work and parenting, you have nothing left to give him yourself or to your spouse.
It might feel like your spouse is your roommate right now. The team at Wisdom Within Counseling in Southeastern Connecticut would love to help you and your partner.
We help couples transition from the roommate status to romantic partners
Your couples therapist can make talking about sexual fantasies, sexual needs, and sexual desires fun. Gain playfulness around sexual expressiveness again.
To better connect on an emotional and sexual level, holistic therapies release anxiety and are lifelong coping tools for bonding.
