When you want to talk about sex, does your spouse say they are too tired? Right now, Darien, CT sex and marriage therapy can help if you feel unwanted or unimportant sexually. Did your spouse cheat and have an affair that makes it hard to get close sexually again? As well, are you or your spouse questioning your gender or transgender? Gender questioning feelings play a role in sexual expression. Does your spouse struggle with depression and personal hygiene issues that make sex challenging? As well, do you or your spouse have a history of sexual and emotional trauma from childhood that comes up in your sexual experiences? Well, if any of these are true for you, Darien, CT sex and marriage therapy can really help your relationship. Wisdom Within Counseling offers a safe, playful space to talk about sex and touch.
What are red flags that you may benefit from Darien, CT sex and marriage therapy?
Many times, couples experience sexual challenges and tension during pregnancy. As well, sexual issues arise after the birth of a first child and after other big life adjustments. For instance, having a child can change a female’s sex drive. As well, this means that more attention and touch is going to her baby versus to her partner or spouse. In this case, her spouse, who has not given birth, may take on a more caregiving role. And, her partner may feel like they are missing out sexually expressing themselves.
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Reasons to begin in Darien, CT Sex Therapy
If you feel stuck in a caregiving role, you may feel you are missing out on physical intimacy and desire.
So, because a woman is giving to her newborn child, her spouse can develop sadness, loss, and depression. After years, being stuck in a caregiving role leads to anger and resentment in some cases. It can be a very exciting time to get pregnant and have a baby. However, if you find your sex drive is less and now you have marital tension, sex therapy can be a great help for you.
How does Wisdom Within Counseling specialize in sex therapy and the trauma response?
Sex therapy in Darien, CT can help you understand what parts of your body feel good when your partner touches them. Sometimes, after trauma experiences giving and receiving touch can be challenging. As well, sex therapy can help you share when you feel safe to have sex. In addition, a lot of couples don’t get education on their sex life as youth or in school. Essentially, we learn about math and science, but we never get to learn about sex positivity.
So, sex and marriage therapy in Darien, Connecticut teaches you how to be curious and create a positive sex life.
Many times, talking about sex is taboo in our culture. Especially, if you have religious trauma, working with a sex positive therapist can be liberating. And you might not want to talk to your friends about your sex life, so sex therapy can be a confidential place to explore sex with your spouse.
From Darien, CT sex and marriage therapy, what are positive intimacy changes that result?
And, the internet is not anywhere near equivalent to working with a professional tax therapist. Maybe, it is difficult to know where to start to have sex. In sex therapy session, we will help you start by talking about foreplay. On that note, sex therapy can help you learn about building desire and prolonging foreplay. Females take about 20 to 90 minutes to warm up in foreplay. On the other hand, males tend to take 2 to 7 minutes to warm up.
Therefore, we teach and educate couples about foreplay and sex.
Plus, prolonging foreplay can be a great way to improve and build desire. For instance, foreplay can be talking in a desirable way to your partner during the day. So, before you physically touch, your tone of voice is a big part in letting your spouse know you deeply desire them.
In marital and sex therapy in Darien, Ct, we specialize in helping couples who end up getting into arguments and fights due to the lack of sexual connection.
We teach partners how to build a healthy sex life through sex positive education in sex therapy. A lot of times, a woman might not be able to open up sexually due to lack of foreplay. Or, if foreplay is too short, this can lead to lack of desire. So, one thing you can do today is begin with playful foreplay. As well, your sex therapist can talk with you about female anatomy. And, you can learn how to support a female orgasm. Often, you may feel pressure to make your partner orgasm. Essentially, this mindset leads to sexual pressure and tension.
In school, we also don’t get to learn about female anatomy in a sexually positive way.
So, Wisdom Within Counseling teaches about somatic experiences and sensate touch. So, it can be helpful to start in sex therapy if you feel the female anatomy is confusing. Wisdom Within Counseling can help you feel confident about the female anatomy and body. If you feel confused about pleasuring your partner, start in sex therapy in Darien, CT today. In addition, if you want to expand your own self pleasure, we can help.
We would love to talk with you about what isn’t work and your goals for building a healthy sex life.
How does Gottman Marriage Counseling work?
To share, the Gottman Method has helped thousands of couples have the relationship that they desire. And, you can learn relationship skills for better communication. In research studies, the Gottmans study interactive patterns that cause couples to divorce. And, in sex therapy, we teach those skills to give distant, fighting couples a new communication toolbox. So, with sex and marriage therapy in Darien, Ct, we help couples learn to speak to each other with consideration and compassion. As well, our sex therapists help couples learn to be emotionally supportive of each other.
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At Wisdom Within Counseling, our marriage therapists are trained to pinpoint skills lacking in communication.
Essentially, these negative communication factors predict separation and divorce. For one, criticism of your partner’s personality is a negative sign. As well, defensiveness is a sign of negative communication. In addition, emotionally closing off, not speaking, or stonewalling is another negative feature. Sometimes, stonewalling can be you or your spouse becoming a brick wall or refusing to interact. Lastly, contempt is another predictor of a relationship ending. So, at Wisdom Within Counseling, our therapists are Gottman method trained to help couples thrive. Lastly, you can gain a toolbox of skills to increase closeness, trust, friendship, and truly resolve and repair from conflict.
Often, we help couples who forget how to connect and how to nurture each other.
With the stresses of life, parenting, in law’s, careers, and finances, a healthy sex life can be on the back burner. So, our sex and marriage therapists help partners who feel they are worlds apart. And, our therapists support couples across their whole lifespan. Plus, we teach couples how to reconnect and how to understand what their partner thinks and feels. Often, partners forget what what day-to-day life is like for their spouse. So, we help couples build empathetic connection.
Lastly, sex therapy helps distant couples join together and created shared values, hopes, aspirations.
Why is it so important to work with a gender affirming relationship therapist?
Wisdom Within Counseling offers Darien, CT sex and marriage therapy support. We specialize with LGBTQIA+, queer and transgender couples. Often, same sex couples have a different set of stressors from cultural oppression. In LGBTQIA+ queer affirming counseling, we help partners understand their spouse’s gender questioning feelings. Over the lifespan, gender and sexual orientation may evolve.
So, working with an LGBTQIA+ affirming couples therapist will help you feel confident verses prejudice talking openly.
On that note, working with a same sex couples therapist will make a huge difference in your counseling experience. As well, connecting with a gender and sexuality specialist in Darien, Connecticut can help you talk about your evolving sexuality. Plus, if you walk to talk about identifying as non binary, gender non confirming, or bisexual, our LGBTQIA+ marriage therapists are happy to sexuality those conversations.
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What is different about working with a Darien, CT sex and marriage therapist vs. a general therapist?
Now, you may have tried couples therapy before. But, I bet you have not tried holistic marriage counseling. So, you get to try out building communication through holistic, creative expressive arts at Wisdom Within Counseling. For one, you can use painting to reestablish a positive sense of living in the present. From there, you can try something new to connect and build playfulness at home. During your Darien, CT sex and marriage therapy sessions, your therapist may use drama, improv, expressive arts, painting, or clay.
Essentially, our sex and marital therapists in Darien, Ct understand you may need more than just talking in counseling to help you express emotions.
After trauma, somatic and mind-body therapies are very healing. Manytimes, couples get stuck in the cycle of talking, which turns to yelling. So, our therapists specialize in providing a positive emotional experience to help couples feel connection through expressive arts.
