Do you feel dissatisfied with the frequency of sex in your marriage? Are you or your spouse addicted to pornography? Do you want to feel comfortable talking about foreplay, orgasm, and gain sex positive skills? Would you like to build emotional intimacy as a foundation for sexual pleasure? A lot of times, when partners talk about sex together, old unresolved anger and trauma comes up. Maybe, you and your spouse try talking about sex, but it’s hard. Often times, couples avoid talking about sex and intimacy, and this results in a sexless marriage. Have you have been feeling a bit down or depressed about your sex life? Now, all of the feelings that you are experiencing are okay. However, intimacy therapy and working with sex specialist in Connecticut can teach you positive coping strategies.
Intimacy therapy and working with sex specialist in Connecticut can help you create a satisfying, safe, and passionate sex life
In intimacy therapy and working with sex specialist in Connecticut, you can learn to ask for what you want. You can can talk sexual desires and talk about sexual needs.
Many times, couples have negative limiting believes that prevent them from asking for what they want. Talking about limiting sexual beliefs and sexual myths can be a positive part of couples therapy. In your relationship, does it feel like you are no longer important sexually?
Are you stuck feeling like sex is an obligation or a chore? Does sex feel like work? Do you avoid sucks because you are just too tired? Are you struggling with performance anxiety around sex? Is one of you always initiating any other always declining or rejecting sex? Would you like your spouse to come on to you sexually?
Do you fear getting into arguments every time one of you tries to bring up sex?
The team of marriage therapists here help families thrive through therapy. In intimacy therapy and working with sex specialist in Connecticut, you and your spouse can talk about sexual desire and goals.
Your relationship doesn’t need to be sexless. You might feel like sex and intimacy are taboo topics or off-limits. Culture can lead us to fear sex and think it is taboo.
Maybe, one of you grew with a different cultural background. Couples therapy can be a safe place to talk about your meaning behind sex.
You might feel like sex is equivalent to love. However, your partner may feel like emotional intimacy must come before sexual pleasure. Talking about the meaning behind sex is very important in intimacy counseling.
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As you know, culture plays a huge role in our meanings around sex and sexual intimacy.
So, if one of you grew up with a conservative background, this plays a role in your sex life.
Intimacy therapy and working with sex specialist in Connecticut can help you create a secure bond, physically.
Many times, couples get caught up in work and spend many more hours than necessary working. You might be overwhelmed with household responsibilities.
Every day, it feels like there’s a mountain of laundry. You fight about money and finances. At the end of the day, you feel exhausted. Couples counseling can be a safe place to talk about prioritizing your marriage again. Scheduling time for couples therapy can be the beginning of creating a healthy sex life.
Many couples do not prioritize each other enough.
Intimacy therapy and working with sex specialist in Connecticut can help you schedule in time for your spouse and for your partner.
Often times, parenting and child rearing arguments also play a role in frustration. Frequently, intimacy therapy and working with sex specialist in Connecticut help reduce anger and marital conflict.
On that note, intimacy and marriage therapy can help you feel like you are scheduling time to prioritize your marriage and your relationship again.
Couples ignore each other’s sexual needs out of fear and anxiety. Intimacy therapy and working with sex specialist in Connecticut can help you create an emotionally vulnerable, positive, and very fulfilling sex life together. Not all touch hast to lead to sex. Couples and counseling and learn how nonsexual touch can promote bonding and connection. Holding hands, kissing, and back rubs are all beneficial. You can feel inspired to add these back into your marriage.
Also, you can learn to hold hands, build touch, and suspense again in intimacy counseling.
Essentially, Wisdom Within Counseling can help you create sex positive experiences and build a healthy foundation of trust.
Right now, your relationship might feel like you are walking on eggshells.
Build a secure, romantic, sexual, playful and nurturing foundation.
Essentially, starting in intimacy therapy and working with sex specialist in Connecticut can help you build positive meaning together.
We help distant couples build strong communication skills. Empathy skills and strong communication skills are a foundational element for a healthy sex life.
Couples can also learn to talk about past trauma in intimacy therapy and working with sex specialist in Connecticut. If you are on a second or third marriage, you may have past trauma. If you had an ex partner who cheated on you, this is a form of trauma. As well, unwanted touch or sexual abuse in childhood as a form of trauma. Many of us go through life experiencing trauma.
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Couples counseling helps you process and heal from past trauma.
You can learn to talk with your spouse about your trauma triggers and they can learn to better understand you better. Empathy skills can help you and your spouse feel a sense of connection and an emotional bond.
Many times, in childhood, you may have experienced some form of trauma. In many cases, all humans and adults have a history of trauma. Sometimes, trauma can be from being in a relationship where someone was cheating on you. To add, experiencing trauma of any kind plays a role in your current marriage conflict and fights.
What is trauma and how does it play a role in intimacy therapy in Connecticut?
Other times, trauma can be from surviving physical, emotional, or sexual abuse as a child. As well, traumas can also look like being in an abusive relationship or experiencing bullying in your childhood.
Essentially, growing up with a parent who was an alcoholic or identifying as an adult child of alcoholic parents is trauma.
To continue, having experiences of, means that you are more likely to feel on edge, have PTSD flashbacks, feel like you are reliving the past, or feel unsafe in your current relationship.
With this said, intimacy therapy and working with sex specialist in Connecticut can help you learn to live in the present moment. For one, couples who have PTSD have trouble calming down and identifying the feelings of right now. Often, couples with complex trauma end up refusing to have sex with each other because it feels unsafe.
Intimacy therapy and working with sex specialist in Connecticut supports healthy trauma healing.
To add, in trauma recovery, our therapists support sex positive communication. Our team of marriage counselors specialize in helping couples who have complex trauma histories and identify as adult children of alcoholics through holistic support.
Now, how does complex childhood trauma play a role in high conflict marital fights in counseling?
Also, in high-conflict marriage fights, these trauma wounds may hurt again.
And, we can help you talk about unmet needs from childhood. As well, in intimacy therapy and working with sex specialist in Connecticut, we specialize with with high conflict couples and complex trauma counseling.
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But, our team specializes with complex trauma in marriage fights.
To begin, click below for a phone consult for intimacy therapy and to work with sex specialist in Connecticut.
As well, we offer holistic Gottman marriage counseling for after betrayal and affairs.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, we help you understand self-regulation, poly vagal theory, and trauma recovery.
And, we support you as a couple system verses seeing you as individuals to help create connection. Intimacy and physical touch are part of trauma symptoms and responses.
Sometimes, after a traumatic experience, you might not want touch. And, it might be hard giving touch to your spouse. This is a trauma response. Intimacy therapy and working with sex specialist in Connecticut supports trauma recovery.
Once you feel rejection sexually by your spouse, it can be really hard to move through those feelings. For one, there might be a sadness and loss. Rejection is a really challenging emotion that we can help you deal with.
We help spouses love, appreciation, and nurture each other in the present moment while letting go of the negativity of the past.
As well, couples may experience reduction in physical sex or touch after having a baby or after adopting a child. Overall, intimacy therapy and working with sex specialist in Connecticut helps couples keep their sex life alive and build it back up once it dies.
Holistic intimacy therapy and working with sex specialist in Connecticut helps you rebuild your playfulness in the bedroom
And, once there is a reduction in sex in touch, often depression, anxiety, and insecurity may follow. Really, intimacy therapy and working with sex specialist in Connecticut helps create deep security and rebuild romantic playfulness. For some, having sex means receiving love. However, for others, having sex can simply be a pleasurable experience and not at all similar to receiving love.
Intimacy therapy and working with sex specialist in Connecticut helps distant couples get back on the same page again.
We are LGBTQIA+ affirming.
Are you looking for the feeling of emotional intimacy and togetherness? Right now, does it feel like you are living on different planets. You can slow down your intense conversations.
And, you can learn how to use sensate touch and be sexual with each other again. In addition, intimacy therapy and working with sex specialist in Connecticut helps distant couples gain clarity around sexual needs and sexual desires. Right now, it may feel hard to hold hands.
To begin, click below for a phone consult for intimacy therapy and to work with sex specialist in Connecticut.
Frequently, we help couples who stop having sex and have trouble re-creating intimacy again rebuild playfulness.
To add, it can be really hard to juggle responsibilities and stresses of raising a family, managing in-laws, and financially managing your home. Sometimes, it can feel like way too much to handle and be overwhelming. And, these stresses play a role in your sex drive and libido. Many times, marriage is not at all what you see in the movies. Also, intimacy therapy and working with sex specialist in Connecticut supports emotional closeness.
Essentially, holistic therapy and intimacy counseling allows you to reflect upon what you need to feel safe opening up sexually again.
And, you can have a safe place to talk and healthy communication. With stress on your mind, it can be very hard to open up sexually. And, this goes back to your primal instinct as a cave person.
Holistic counseling to rebuild intimacy and support your marriage
Additionally, holistic counseling is a one-of-a-kind experience. And, you get to use your mind, body, and spirit in holistic counseling. Essentially, you can pack from art therapies, yoga and music therapies, expressive art therapies and walking. For one, you and your couples therapist can go for a walk in nature to release anxiety and feel grounding earthy energy. Walk and talk therapy is about being in nature while talking about your relationship. Also, you can ask your therapist to provide you mindfulness meditation to connect in marriage counseling.
