Wanting more sexual pleasure in your relationship, but not sure how to get there? Struggling with sexual challenges like erectile dysfunction or premature ejaculation? Are you disinterested in sex because it hurts and is painful? Do you wish sex could be fun, enjoyable, and pleasurable, but right now, it is painful? Or, do you feel sexually rejected by your partner? Are you feeling nervous and self-conscious about your sexuality? Our Wisdom Within Counseling intimacy and sex focused couples therapists in Melbourne, Florida can support you and your partner.
Wanting to explore a sexual kink? Or, do you have issues with masturbation and pornography use?
As well, have you had some difficult life experiences (grief, trauma, PTSD) that are preventing you from having a positive sex life?
Do you feel irritated and anxious when you hear certain sounds during sex and they drive you crazy? Would you consider yourself a highly sensitive person or neurodivergent?
Do you have self-confidence issues around sex or being a good lover?
Katie Ziskind is a Certified Sex Therapy Informed Professional (CSTIP), and is passionate about helping you and your partner build a meaningful sex life.
Our Wisdom Within Counseling team can help you develop bonding tools, improve your emotional intimacy, and help each other feel wanted, desired and attractive.
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What are some common reasons to work with an intimacy and sex couples therapist in Melbourne, Florida, like Katie Ziskind?
Painful vaginal intercourse is a good reason to seek marriage counseling with our intimacy and sexuality specialists
For one, if you are experiencing painful vaginal intercourse, this is a great reason to work with a couples therapist who specializes in sex and intimacy. Painful sexual intercourse can make sex a “grin and bear it experience.”
Our team of sex and intimacy specialists can assess as to why you are experiencing painful sex. There can be many contributing factors that lead to painful vaginal intercourse and penetrative sex.
Painful vaginal intercourse, also known as dyspareunia, can significantly impact a person’s sexual well-being and overall quality of life. Physical causes may include medical conditions such as infections, hormonal imbalances, or pelvic floor disorders.
As well, emotional and psychological factors can also contribute to the experience of pain during sex. Anxiety, fear, past traumatic experiences, or relationship issues create tension and discomfort. It is crucial to address both the physical and emotional aspects of painful sex.
Counseling at Wisdom Within in Melbourne, Florida, is a safe place where you can talk about the pain that you are experiencing during sex.
Intimacy therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling serves as a valuable resource when you are experiencing painful intercourse. We provide a safe space to explore the emotional and relational components of your sexual health. At Wisdom Within Counseling, near Rockledge, Florida, you can work with a trained therapist to identify and address any psychological factors that are contributing to painful sex.
Through open communication, you can express concerns, fears, or unresolved issues that may be impacting your sexual experiences. Counseling can involve techniques such as cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) to reframe negative thought patterns. As well, you can learn mindfulness strategies to reduce anxiety. To add, couples therapy can help you improve communication and intimacy with your partner.
By addressing the psychological and emotional aspects alongside physical causes, counseling with our team of specialists can play a pivotal role in helping you. With professional help, you can overcome painful vaginal intercourse, fostering more positive and fulfilling sexual experiences.
Instead of feeling pain, our team can give you skills and strategies to experience sexual pleasure and sexual safety.
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Erectile dysfunction a great reason to meet with our marriage counselors and our intimacy and sexuality specialists
For men, erectile dysfunction and premature ejaculation are great reasons to reach out for help with our intimacy and sex couples therapists in Melbourne, Florida.
Erectile dysfunction (ED) is a common medical condition characterized by the inability to achieve or maintain an erection sufficient for sexual activity.
While physiological factors such as cardiovascular issues, diabetes, and hormonal imbalances can contribute to erectile dysfunction, psychological factors also play a significant role.
Stress, anxiety, depression, relationship problems, and performance anxiety are among the psychological factors that can contribute to or exacerbate erectile dysfunction.
Therapy with our sex and intimacy specialists can help you recognize the interconnected nature of physical and emotional aspects in treating erectile dysfunction.
Counseling with or sexuality and intimacy specialists can be a valuable and effective approach in managing erectile dysfunction, especially when emotional and mental factors are identified as contributors.
Our trained therapists can work with men and their partners to explore the emotional and interpersonal aspects impacting sexual health.
Through counseling, men can gain insight into the root causes of stress or anxiety related to their sexual experiences. And, couples can improve communication and intimacy through counseling.
Behavioral therapy techniques, cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), and mindfulness strategies may be employed to help individuals cope with performance anxiety and negative thought patterns. The team at Wisdom Within Counseling promote a healthier mindset, therefore reducing the impact of emotional factors on sexual function.
In some cases, intimacy counseling can be used in conjunction with medical treatments to address both the physical and emotional dimensions of erectile dysfunction.
Our Wisdom Within Counseling team offers a comprehensive, playful, and holistic approach to improving sexual health.
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Premature ejaculation issues
As well, premature ejaculation issues can lead to insecurities and self consciousness as well as sexual performance anxiety. Working through premature ejaculation takes the health of a specialist who understands this disorder. We can give you homework to help you build awareness of your body’s signals.
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Low sexual desire disorder in females is a good reason to get into couples counseling
If you’re a female, and you just can’t seem to feel turned on or sexually aroused, you may have a low sexual desire disorder. If you feel like you can’t get sexually aroused, counseling can help you process the emotional side.
There are many reasons that our therapists can assess that lead to low sexual desire disorders in females. We look at your whole body, in mind, body and spirit when it comes to low libido issues.
Low sexual desire disorders and issues with low libido can significantly affect your sexual satisfaction and intimate relationships.
While physical factors like hormonal imbalances, certain medications, or underlying health conditions can contribute to decreased libido, there are emotional parts. Therapy with our intimacy and sexuality specialists at Wisdom Within Counseling can help you process the psychological factors, which often play a crucial role.
Stress, anxiety, depression, past trauma, body image concerns, and relationship difficulties can all cause low libido issues. As well, you may experience a low desire for sexual activity, or no desire at all, leading to sexual frustration and challenges in your marriage. Counseling can help you and your partner understand the complex interplay between the mind and body when it comes to experiencing sexual desire.
In general, counseling offers a supportive environment for women who are struggling with low sexual desire. Wisdom Within Counseling, provides a sex positive space to explore the emotional and psychological factors influencing sex drive, desire, and libido. Our sexuality specialists can help uncover and asses the underlying issues contributing to your decreased sexual desire. We can also help you and your partner gain a deeper understanding of personal triggers and emotional obstacles.
Through various therapeutic approaches such as cognitive-behavioral techniques, mindfulness practices, and sensate focus homework, you can work to get in touch with your sexual, erotic self.
In intimacy and sexuality counseling, you can address negative thought patterns, improve your body image, talk about past traumas, manage stress, and improve self-esteem.
As a whole, addressing these all can positively impact sex drive, sexual desire, and libido.
Additionally, couples counseling can aid you and your partner in understanding each other’s needs and desires.
From marriage therapy, you both can work on improving communication, intimacy, and rekindle a sense of connection. From more emotional connection and intimacy, emotional security develops, which can reignite sexual desire within your relationship.
Furthermore, intimacy and sexuality counseling can assist you in developing healthier attitudes and beliefs about sexuality. There may be shame or guilt holding you back from experiencing sexual desire.
From counseling, you can foster a more positive relationship with your own body and sexual desires.
By addressing both the psychological and relational aspects of low sexual desire, Wisdom Within Counseling in Brevard County, Florida offers a holistic approach. Our team of therapists help you improve your libido and create a positive, playful, fulfilling, and satisfying sexual life. From counseling, you can feel comfortable talking about sex and tackle low sexual desire.
From working with the professionals at Wisdom Within Counseling, you can develop a positive relationship with your sexuality, and improve your sexual well-being and intimacy.
Not being able to orgasm in females
Some females also have never experienced an orgasm, but have always wanted to. Intimacy counseling can be very helpful for building sexual confidence.
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Sexual performance anxiety
Additionally, for all gender, ages, and ethnicities, sexual performance anxiety can make it really difficult to enjoy the moment and feel sexual pleasure.
Maybe, you get sexually self-conscious, which prevents you from enjoying your sex life.
Your partner gives you a sexual compliment. And, your inner critic voice immediately jumps in with anxiety and self-consciousness. No matter what complement your partner gives you, you wonder if it is true or not. There is sexual insecurity lingering in your mind.
When your partner says that you do an amazing job touching your body, deep down, your doubts and anxiety says, “Am I that great?” Your insecure part says to you, “What is it that my partner sees in me? I’m not even that attractive.” Sexual insecurity can lead to performance anxiety in the bedroom, decreasing sexual desire and leading to arousal issues.
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When sexual performance anxiety and self-consciousness are present, intimacy and marriage counseling can help you learn how to be sexually confident.
Counseling can be a safe place to learn how to curiously and playfully talk about sex with your partner. You might be afraid to talk about your self consciousness or what you need in the bedroom because your fear driving your romantic partner away.
Self-consciousness, sexual insecurity, and performance anxiety concert fast no matter if you are newly into a relationship, or years into a long-term marriage. Working through these can be incredibly helpful when it comes to building sexual confidence.
Your anxious mind plays tricks on you right in the moments when your partner comes on to you and you could be enjoying pleasure.
For instance, your anxious mind keeps repeating negative, self-doubtful thoughts such as, “Am I truly ready to be back in a relationship? Why does this person even like me? Are they hiding something from me?”
Struggling with sexual performance anxiety and self-confidence issues, you might wonder if your female partner is faking an orgasm just to please you. It’s hard to believe that you could possibly be giving your partner so much pleasure and they could be liking it as much as they do. It almost seems too good to be true. Fear, anxiety, and sexual insecurity can prevent you from fully enjoying sex and appreciating your partner’s body.
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Avoiding sex or specific sexual activities
As a result of anxiety or fears, you or your partner may be avoiding sex all together or specific sexual activities. Being able to learn coping strategies to work through anxiety and fear can be incredibly beneficial in bonding, having regular physical connection, and developing sexual intimacy with your partner.
Now, it’s really common that when you experience sexual performance anxiety to start avoiding sex or certain sexual activities. You don’t like feeling anxious. Sex, intimacy, physical touch, and sexual performance become a trigger for height and anxiety. Therefore, right now, you think that by having less sex or not having sex at all, you can lower your anxiety. But, this method only makes your anxiety around touch more powerful over you. And, you never really learn how to cope with and overcome anxiety that is triggered by touch and intimacy this way.
By meeting with our Wisdom Within Counseling intimacy and sex couples therapists in Melbourne, Florida, you can playfully talk about your sexual anxiety.
So, avoiding sex and touch prevents you from actually learning how to overcome and cope with the anxiety.
When one person struggles to receive touch, and feels anxious, this can lead to an imbalanced dynamic where the other partner is always initiating sex, and often getting sexually rejected. Working with an intimacy and sex specialist on our team can give you strategies and positive coping tools to work through sexual anxiety, so you can develop sexual confidence. Learning to feel sexual pleasure can be very rewarding and you both can develop sex positive lifelong skills.
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Pornography addictions and masturbation addictions are great reasons to seek marriage and relationship counseling
Additionally, masturbation porn addictions where there is impulsivity and compulsivity around sexual thoughts, are great reasons to reach out for intimacy and sex focused individual and couples counseling.
You may struggle with a masturbation pornography addiction when you withdraw socially and isolate yourself in order to masturbate and watch pornography. As well, you may struggle with masturbation and pornography addiction when you decline social invitations in order to isolate. You may find yourself taking a break at work, and masturbating and watching pornography.
Also, you might try to masturbate to the point where your body is in pain, you are bruised, or chafed.
It is very difficult to stop masturbating compulsively and watching pornography compulsively when you struggle with addiction.
You might have tried to stop, but were unsuccessful in the past. Our intimacy and sex focused couples therapists in Melbourne, Florida at Wisdom Within Counseling help you find positive coping tools, when you keep going back to pornography and masturbation.
Addictive sexual behaviors can be very intense, and our intimacy and sex focused couples counselors in Melbourne, Florida at Wisdom Within Counseling can give you healthy alternatives and outlets.
Also, when struggling with a porn and masturbation addiction, you may be experiencing intimate partner relationship difficulties. To note, your partner feels betrayed when you pull away and watch pornography. And, you are avoiding sex with your partner as your compulsion and desire to watch pornography and masturbate by yourself increases due to your addiction. Your marriage or your romantic relationship may be suffering as a result of your masturbation pornography addiction. When you have relationship issues due to compulsive pornography use, our intimacy and sex focused couples therapists in Melbourne, Florida at Wisdom Within Counseling can help.
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Our intimacy and sex focused couples therapists in Melbourne, Florida at Wisdom Within Counseling can help when your addiction keeps increasing and you need more and more.
You find yourself needing more and more pornography in order to get the same high. At one time, ten minutes of masturbation and pornography use satisfied you. But now, you need hours upon hours of pornography in order to get that same high. Your tolerance is increasing due to your addiction. When you feel unable to control your compulsions and obsessions to masturbate and watch pornography, our Our intimacy and sex focused couples therapists in Melbourne, Florida at Wisdom Within Counseling can help you.
To note, pornography can be incredibly addictive. Porn affects your brain in the same way drugs and alcohol affect your brain. Pornography use may increase over time, leading to impulsivity and compulsivity.
Your pornography addiction comes before your real life partner and experiencing pleasure.
Often times, pornography makes you think that you could do those same things that you see with a real life partner. Pornography use and addiction creates unrealistic expectations with your real like partner.
Many people who create porn are actors and actresses. Pornography can damage your real life relationship, because it makes you think that you can re-create the porn scene in real life. Your partner may see you as insensitive and emotionally disconnected. And, you may try to do things to your partner’s body that you have seen in pornography, replicating aggressive scenes.
As well, pornography can lead you to turn away from your partner and self isolate when you watch it.
Instead of spending time getting to know your partners body, you isolate and withdraw to watch porn. When you have an addiction to pornography, you may also be masturbating compulsively and impulsively.
On one hand, masturbation self pleasure can be enjoyable experiences that help you learn about what type of touch you like. It can be self exploratory. However, masturbation and pornography addictions are no longer healthy habit, and becomes a constant numbing behavior as you reach for more dopamine.
Additionally, your masturbation and pornography addiction is maybe getting in the way of building healthy, loving relationships with other people.
These addictions take away from the amazing connection you may be able to create with other humans.
Looking at the root of addiction, are often forms of emotional and sexual abuse in childhood. You may have had a parent who is narcissistic, guilt tripped you, verbally abused you, yelled at you, belittled you, and now, you have a low sense of self-esteem.
As a teenager, you may have turned to pornography and masturbation to create the sense of escape. As well, masturbation and pornography addiction make you feel good, but for a short period of time.
During masturbation, your brain releases dopamine along with other mood boosting chemicals. However, this short term relaxation is something that you begin chasing, leading to impulsive and compulsive feelings.
Working with our intimacy and sex focused couples therapists in Melbourne, Florida at Wisdom Within Counseling can help you process previous trauma.
Counseling can help you process childhood emotional abuse, having emotionally neglectful parents, and give you positive coping tools. Instead of withdrawing and turning away from your partner to watch pornography compulsively and masturbate, you can learn how to cope in healthy ways.
If you experience any of the above signs, you are masturbating and watching pornography way too much and are addicted. Counseling can help you understand why you use masturbation and pornography to numb out.
And, working with our intimacy and sex focused couples therapists in Melbourne, Florida at Wisdom Within Counseling gives you coping strategies to restore your relationship with your real life partner. You can learn how to work with your thoughts when they get impulsive and compulsive around sex.
If you struggle with stopping masturbating, and pornography addiction, working with our intimacy and sex focused couples therapists in Melbourne, Florida at Wisdom Within Counseling can really help you.
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Religious shame and guilt around sex are good reasons to work with our intimacy and sex focused couples therapists in Palm Bay, Florida at Wisdom Within Counseling
You may have grown up in a strict, conservative, religious home and now you are exploring your sexuality. One of your goals in counseling is that you want to have a positive relationship with sex for the first time in your life. Pushing through negative, religious, fear-based messages you received growing up and during adolescence, can be a part of working with our intimacy and sex focused couples therapists in Melbourne, Florida at Wisdom Within Counseling.
Now, when you grow up with religious shame and guilt around sex, you may feel that talking about sex is dirty or you are wrong for wanting sexual pleasure.
You may have been taught that you should inherently push away sexual thoughts and sexual urges. And, that sex is the working of the devil. From growing up with religious shame and guilt around sex, you may feel anxiety when you do have sexual urges or want sexual pleasure. And, you may experience fear and anxiety around sex and your sexuality.
Often times, growing up in a strict, conservative environment means that you are taught to abstain from sex.
Additionally, you may even experience self-hatred and inner criticism around your sexual orientation. In a strict, religious home, you learned that having sexual relationships was only for after marriage. Your conservative parents may have taught you that you had to be pure and not have sex until marriage. And, if you engaged in sexual activities before marriage, you may now be very critical or even shame yourself.
You don’t get hot that birth control and condoms acceptable forms of contraception. As well, you are taught that it is acceptable only to be in a monogamous, sexual relationship once you are married. Additionally, you may be taught that, especially if you are female, to always obey your male partner and accept initiations for sex. Even if you find sex painful or unpleasant, as a female, you are to “be of service to your husband.” This mindset disempowers women, and even sets women up for sexual abuse and marital rape.
Growing up in a religious, conservative environment with religious shame and guilt means that you don’t learn about sexual empowerment or sexual positivity.
As well, you often are taught, from a young age, that sexual urges are immoral, and that you are a sinner if you engage in or find pleasure in any sexual activities. You might even fear being ostracized from your religious community if it is found out that you have engage in sexual activities before marriage.
To add, teenagers are not given proper sexual health education on sexually transmitted infections in strict, religious communities.
If you grew up in a family where you felt religious shame and guilt, you may also have body image issues.
You may have been taught to hate the sexual side of yourself from a young age. As well, even if you ask a question about sex as an adolescent, your family may have physically punished you for even saying the word “sex.” You did not receive proper sexual health education because all you were taught were religious fear-based messages. As well, you may have been taught to be afraid, like that if you masturbated, you would grow hair on your palms.
Additionally, when you grow up in a Christian, conservative, and religious-based home, you are taught that sex is evil and engaging in sex should only be for having children.
Instead, in intimacy counseling, you overcome religious and fear-based sexual shame and guilt and can shift into a sex positive mindset.
You can learn that sex can be pleasurable, consentual, and recreational. Sexual shame and guilt makes you feel like you were going to be condemned or bad things will happen when you experience pleasurable facts.
Unfortunately, many women, “grin and bear it,” when it comes to sex. Even when sex is very painful, they don’t speak up or get to have a voice. Due to religious shame and guilt, as a female, you may believe that you don’t deserve to have a voice. You were never taught to know that it is acceptable to ask your partner to stop. Also, you may feel at a loss when it comes to dealing with painful sex. Additionally, you may feel like sex could never be pleasurable for you due to having the partner you have.
Additionally, if your partner is having an affair, some religious beliefs that you grew up with me teach you that that is acceptable and you just have to grin and bear that too.
Growing up with religious shame and guilt means that you never received sexual empowerment.
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Working with our intimacy and sex focused couples therapists in Melbourne, Florida at Wisdom Within Counseling helps you overcome criticism and self hatred around your own sexual desires.
There is a lot of fear around sex and sexuality in strict, conservative, and religious cultures.
Part of healing and counseling means looking at your own religious values and beliefs, and challenging the beliefs that continue to keep you in a fear-based mode.
Counseling with our intimacy and sex focused couples therapists along the Space Coast of Florida can help you see your own sexuality and sexual intimacy in a positive way.
You can learn what healthy touch is. And, you can learn about consentual touch, loving touch, and how touch can be an extension of love. Sex don’t have to be an obligation or duty that you have to fulfill for your partner. And, sex doesn’t just have to be for procreation. Counseling can help you let go of fear-based messaged and beliefs that you have developed from being raised in a strict, religious culture. You can identify beliefs that are no longer serving you, and develop sex positive beliefs.
Working with our intimacy and sex focused couples therapists in Melbourne, Florida at Wisdom Within Counseling can help you develop a new sexual code, one that focuses on intimacy and genuine connection.
You can learn that you deserve to experience sexual pleasure, and learn mindfulness strategies for having a healthy sex life.
Meeting with our intimacy and sex focused couples therapists in Melbourne, Florida at Wisdom Within Counseling can help you overcome religious sexual shame and guilt.
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Have you found yourself in a sexless marriage?
Another great reasons to work with our intimacy and sex focused couples therapists in Melbourne, Florida at Wisdom Within Counseling is a sexless marriage.
For one, you may have been married for a long time, and found yourself in a sexless marriage. It can be incredibly painful and sad to be continually sexually rejected by your partner.
To note, you may be stuck negative feedback loop where your partner avoids you sexually, and you feel alone and rejected sexually.
Being in a sexless marriage can be the result of many contributing factors that working with our intimacy and sex focused couples therapists in Melbourne, Florida at Wisdom Within Counseling can help assess.
Getting stuck in a cycle of conflict, yelling, criticism, rejection, and loneliness are often contributing factors to a sexless marriage. Notably, negative communication patterns lead to negative emotions and less sex. These negative communication tactics prevent the ability for sexual playfulness in your marriage.
Our couples therapists in melbourne, Florida at Wisdom Within Counseling can help you improve emotional intimacy and emotional security, which improves your attachment.
When you feel emotionally overwhelmed, betrayed, used, or hurt, your partner may need help increasing their empathy for your feelings. As well, marriage counseling at Wisdom Within Counseling can help you increase your empathy for your partner. Overall, learning about attachment theory can help you experience positive emotions and build emotional security.
If you are both stuck in a cycle of emotional pain, you will be repeating problematic relationship patterns perpetuating a sexless marriage.
Working with our intimacy and sex focused couples therapists in Melbourne, Florida at Wisdom Within Counseling help you stop negative communication tactics. Right now, you both may be yelling, rude, being harsh, critical, and demanding to each other without even realizing it.
Our team of marriage therapists Wisdom Within Counseling can help you build emotional security and communicate more vulnerably and calmly.
Likewise, learning to do so can help you repair disconnection, resolve conflict, and stop the blame game. You can identify when you both are making a demand or being critical, which is a negative response. And, then you can both instead shift into emotional connection, playfulness, and flexibility. Understanding how tone of voice contributes to this negative cycle can be a benefit of marriage therapy too.
Counseling can teach you that when you or your partner are feeling overwhelmed, hurt, or powerless, it comes out as anger.
Instead of yelling out of anger, you can learn to see how an angry reaction will only exacerbate disconnection and negative patterns. By learning about your negative pattern as a couple, you can more vulnerably talk about how you feel hurt, irritated, or sad. In couples counseling, you can talk together about your triggers when it comes to fears of abandonment or fears of rejection. If you are frustrated, critical of your partner, or feel criticized yourself, this takes the joy and the playfulness out of sex.
Instead of having win-win fights or fights where you knock each other down, you can learn to be emotionally connected, which improves your sex life.
Developing emotional connection means that you trust that you both can hear each other. Working with our intimacy and sex focused couples therapists in Melbourne, Florida at Wisdom Within Counseling, you both can learn tools to turn your conflicts into growth experiences. Couples counseling at Wisdom Within Counseling can be a safe place to help you have more positive, bonding experiences. These can remedy emotional distance that has been caused from conflict, improving your sex life.
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Additionally, a contributor to a sexless marriage is personal stress.
Your partner may feel emotionally exhausted or burnt out from personal stress. Becoming new parents can be exciting and stressful. Having a job you hate or boss you don’t like can be draining emotionally. Worrying about your child with special need’s future can be stressful.
Having a partner with chronic pain or a chronic illness can be stressful.
Alcoholism and addiction issues lead to sexual problems too. You as well, may have personal stress that is contributing to a lack of curiosity in your relationship.
Being emotionally burnt out at work, or having family stressors can lead to exhaustion. Sex takes curiosity, which means having emotional energy reserves to bring to your relationship. working with our intimacy and sex focused couples therapists in Melbourne, Florida at Wisdom Within Counseling can give you stress outlets. Getting a safe palce to talk about stress can be a relief.
Having a good sex life means making it a priority too.
If you and your partner don’t have enough quality time together, you may not be setting aside enough time to be sexually intimate. The chores, responsibility of paying your mortgage and paying bills, parenting, and caretaking for everyone else can leave you with no time left in the day. It might feel like sex has fallen into the back burner. And, you feel sad, alone, and hopeless in your marriage as a result.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, intimacy and sex focused couples therapy in Melbourne, Florida can help you break this negative pattern and start to prioritize each other sexually.
You may feel like sex is dull, boring, or another chore, taking the fun out of the experience. Couples therapy can help you bring the spice to your sex life back and have fun sexually again. And, working with the Wisdom Within Counseling intimacy and sex couples therapists in Melbourne, Florida can help you make sex fun and playful.
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Our Wisdom Within Counseling intimacy and sex focused couples therapists in Melbourne, Florida help highly sensitive people enjoy sex
As well, the Wisdom Within Counseling intimacy and sex couples therapists in Melbourne, Florida help highly sensitive people and neurodivergent people. Due to being a highly sensitive person or neurodivergent, you may have different sensory challenges when it comes to sex.
To add, the pressure of touch, hang nails on your partner’s hands, or even certain sounds can take you out. Hearing other people around the building you are in you when you’re trying to be intimate can throw you off. Not having a good environment sensory wise can cause anxiety, preventing sexual pleasure. Highly sensitive people and neurodivergent people need specific accommodations to feel safe opening up sexually.
Our Wisdom Within Counseling intimacy and sex focused couples therapists in Melbourne, Florida work with highly sensitive and neurodivergent people.
We to help you create a safe, sensual environment, that feels good, so you can relax into sexual experiences.
You may need a specific temperature to be able to become sexually arouse. For example, if it is too stuffy or hot in the bedroom, you may find it more of a struggle to become sexually aroused.
Or, if it is too cold or too hot, it can be difficult to become sexually aroused. Perhaps, you like a fan, or you don’t like any air on your skin at all.
Maybe, the texture of the sheets on your skin feels too rough. Or, the fabric of the blankets on your skin feels uncomfortable, taking you out of enjoying the present moment.
Perhaps, the lighting in the room makes a big difference for you. You don’t like overhead lights, so you may need to have them lights or low-wage lightbulbs. For instance, beginning a new relationship and spending the night your partners place or home can lead to sexual sensory challenges. Processing these with our Wisdom Within Counseling intimacy and sex focused couples therapists in Melbourne, Florida can help you have a voice to speak up with your partner.
Talk about your sexual kinks or unique ways you feel sexual arousal in counseling
As well, you may be exploring different kinks or certain unique things that turn you on sexually and want to talk about these with your partner. Your matter what intimacy, sexuality, or sex issue you’re struggling with, the Wisdom Within Counseling intimacy and sex couples therapists in Melbourne, Florida provide a safe place to talk about sex.
Overall, there are many reasons why you should seek the help of a sex and intimacy specialist. Not all general couples therapists know how to talk about sex in a positive way. The team at Wisdom Within Counseling has specific training to help you overcome intimacy and sexual challenges.
The Wisdom Within Counseling intimacy and sex couples therapists in Melbourne, Florida help you feel safe, comfortable, and confidence talking about your sex life.
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Lack of accurate sexual health information can lead to sexual questions that our Wisdom Within Counseling intimacy and sex focused couples therapists in Melbourne, Florida can answer
More so, we often learn all that we know about sex pornography. This is like learning about how to be in a healthy marriage from a Hollywood movie. Pornography is not an accurate depiction of real life relationships. In the same way, Hollywood movies are not an accurate depiction or example of how to have a healthy married life.
Working with an intimacy and sex specialist and couples counselor at Wisdom Within Counseling can help you have a safe place to learn about sex.
For instance, you can learn about female anatomy, the female orgasmic system, the male anatomy and male orgasmic system. We can talk about myths or lies that you’ve been told. You can gain sexual health education that you never learn in school or from your family with the Wisdom Within Counseling intimacy and sex couples therapists in Melbourne, Florida.
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Can my intimacy and sex couples therapist in Melbourne, Florida at Wisdom Within Counseling help me overcome past sexual trauma and trust issues?
Experiencing childhood emotional and sexual trauma and past romantic relationship emotional trauma can lead to your current sexual issues. For instance, if you were sexually abused, molested, or received unwanted touch in a non-consensual way during your growing up years, this is traumatic. You may experience a clenching in your pelvic floor during sexual activities due to past sexual trauma. During sex, you might subconsciously be grinding your teeth. Your pelvic floor may be tense during sexual experiences with your partner as a result of past sexual trauma. So, our Wisdom Within Counseling intimacy and sex focused couples therapists in Melbourne, Florida can teach you mind body, somatic coping tools to arrive in the present moment.
Your body might be going into fight, flight, or freeze responses during sex and intimacy experiences. Or, you may be experiencing high levels of anxiety and panic due to past sexual trauma and unwanted touch.
Additionally, if you were in a past romantic relationship with a narcissist or someone who was emotionally abusive, you may fear that your current sexual partner may be the same way.
For example, you may fear your current partner will cheat on you, lie to you, criticize the smell of your body, or start screaming at you. This emotional trauma can leave a lasting impact.
If you were in a relationship with someone that was emotionally abusive or narcissistic, the shadow of this memory can prevent you from enjoying sex with a new, safe partner.
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How can working with our intimacy and sex couples therapists in Melbourne, Florida support for satisfying sexual experiences?
Having regular, weekly appointments to talk about your sex life, sexuality, religious views ingrained from childhood, and the influences of masturbation and porn can help you develop a healthy, loving relationship with sex.
Many times, we don’t have a safe place to talk about sex and get sex positive, sexual education. You might want to talk about oral sex, giving and receiving, and generally just start to get more comfortable talking about your sex life.
In marriage counseling, you can see yourself and your partner as erotic, sexual beings who deserve pleasure. Sexual playfulness and curiosity are great benefits from working with our Wisdom Within Counseling intimacy and sex focused couples therapists in Brevard, Florida. Intimacy counseling can help you integrate new sex toys for sexual diversity and playfulness.
If you are in a sexless marriage, this sexual drought no longer has to leave you feeling alone, rejected, and frustrated.
You can be more than just roommates with your spouse from meeting with our Wisdom Within Counseling intimacy and sex focused couples therapists in Melbourne, Florida. And, you can start to connect to your partner in a loving, romantic, erotic, and sexual way.
Our Wisdom Within Counseling intimacy and sex focused couples therapists in Melbourne, Florida can help you learn healthy communication skills to restore your sex life.
To begin, click below to book a phone consult to work with our intimacy and sex focused couples therapists and sexuality specialists to rebuild you sex life.
How long should sex last according to the Wisdom Within Counseling marriage and intimacy therapists?
According to sex experts, penetrative sex typically lasts anywhere between 5 to 12 minutes.
Often times, our culture puts too much pressure on penetrative sex. Culture tells men that they need to have an erect penis for much longer than this. Unfortunately, this puts a lot of undue sexual performance pressure on men to remain erect. It is normal for a man to get an erection, lose it, and regain it throughout foreplay.
To note, foreplay should be about 45 to 90 minutes before sexual penetration or penetrative sex is even considered. Foreplay can include massaging, caressing, making out in French kissing, heavy petting, and essentially builds the hype.
Building a hype and building sexual desire are key elements of having a pleasurable sexual experience.
So often, couples come to counseling dealing with sexual issues and our Wisdom Within Counseling intimacy and sex focused couples therapists in Melbourne, Florida assess that their foreplay is not long enough. If you take anything away from this article, lengthening foreplay is incredibly beneficial for your sex life.
To note, take the time to warm up your partner’s physical body and their mind. Be curious and slow down.
Avoid jumping right to penetrative sex as well. Take the focus off penetrative sex. It takes time for a female’s mind to shift into a sexual experience, which is why foreplay is so important. She may be very focused on stress at work, parenting, or something else, so it takes time for her mind to move in to an erotic space.
Our bodies and our minds need time, during foreplay, to build desire and sexual arousal.
Especially, the female body needs time for the clitoral area and vulva to become engorged with blood flow. Notably, a male’s body only needs 5 to 7 minutes of foreplay for his body to develop an erection. However, a female’s body and anatomy needs about 45 to 90 minutes for her clitoris to develop clitoral circulation in that same way.
To begin, click below to book a phone consult to work with our intimacy and sex focused couples therapists and sexuality specialists to rebuild you sex life.
What exercises will my intimacy and sex couples therapist in Melbourne, Florida give us for homework?
Sensate focus couples therapy homework provides you with structure outside of your intimacy counseling session. Our Wisdom Within Counseling intimacy and sex focused couples therapists in Melbourne, Florida give you homework to enhance intimacy and communication by focusing on sensory experiences.
The homework we assign is a crucial component that extends beyond your marriage counseling sessions. One significant benefit of doing your homework is increasing awareness and mindfulness within your relationship. Sensate focus homework encourages you both to explore and understand your own and your partner’s physical and emotional responses. Sexual homework outside of couples therapy helps you foster a deeper connection.
Our Wisdom Within Counseling intimacy and sex focused couples therapists in Brevard County, Florida put an emphasis on non-sexual touch and intimacy.
Stepping away from the idea that all touch must lead to sex is key in homework exercises. Cuddling doesn’t have to lead to penetrative sex. Overall, sensate focus couples therapy homework allows you both to build trust and emotional intimacy gradually.
Through carefully designed homework exercises, you both can learn to communicate more effectively about your sexual desires, boundaries, and sexual preferences. Increased communication leads to greater emotional intimacy, helping you both feel more connected and understood.
Sensate focus homework is also valuable for addressing issues related to performance anxiety or sexual dysfunction.
By redirecting the focus away from sexual performance and towards the experience of touch and connection, you both can alleviate pressure. Overall, you can work to create a more relaxed and enjoyable erotic and romantic atmosphere. This can ultimately contribute to a healthier sexual relationship.
Furthermore, sensate focus exercises provide you both with a shared activity that promotes cooperation and mutual understanding. Essentially, engaging in these exercises together fosters a sense of partnership. Doing couples therapy homework supports working towards common goals and a deeper bond. The homework becomes a collaborative effort, and teamwork. As well, sensate focus homework reinforces the idea that both of you are active participants in the growth and improvement of your marriage and relationship.
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Lastly, sensate focus couples therapy homework can be a transformative tool for rekindling the spark in long-term relationships.
By reintroducing physical touch and intimacy in a deliberate and structured way, you can rediscover the joy and pleasure in each other’s company. Our Wisdom Within Counseling intimacy and sex focused couples therapists in Melbourne, Florida help you both break down emotional barriers that may be in the way. You can learn skills to reignite your passion for each other that may have diminished over time.
Our Wisdom Within Counseling intimacy and sex focused couples therapists in Melbourne, Florida give you sensate focus homework to become more mindful of touch.
Sensate focus couples therapy homework improve your connection your mind and body. This type of homework lowers anxiety related to sexual performance and sexual pressure. You get to create a more fulfilling, emotionally close, and fulfilling marriage and relationship.
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What does it mean to work with a marriage therapist who specializes in sexless marriages, sex, sexuality, intimacy, and sexual challenges?
Working with a marriage therapist at Wisdom Within Counseling in Melbourne, Florida who specializes in sexless marriages, sex, sexuality, intimacy, and sexual challenges means you get a therapist who understand the intricate dynamics surrounding physical intimacy within your relationship.
Our therapists possess a specialized understanding of the emotional, psychological, and physical factors that contribute to a lack of sexual connection between partners. We approach our work with a sensitivity to the unique challenges that couples face. As well, we recognize that issues related to sex and intimacy often extend beyond the bedroom and are intertwined with broader aspects of the relationship.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, our intimacy and sex focused couples therapists in Melbourne, Florida specialize in sexless marriages.
Our counselors aim to create a safe and open space for couples to discuss their concerns, desires, and challenges related to intimacy.
We offer various therapeutic techniques, including communication exercises, psychoeducation, and exploration of underlying emotional issues that may be contributing to the lack of sexual connection.
By delving into these topics, our intimacy therapists help couples better understand each other’s needs, fostering improved communication and connection.
Furthermore, our sex and intimacy specialized marriage therapists work to dismantle stigmas around sex. As well, our counselors foster a non-judgmental environment around sexual issues.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, our intimacy, sexuality, and sex focused couples counselors strive to empower couples to openly express their feelings and sexual desires.
We facilitate a collaborative effort to rebuild and revitalize your erotic, intimate connection.
The goal is not only to address immediate concerns, but also to equip couples with the tools to maintain a healthy and fulfilling sexual relationship in the long term.
Through targeted interventions, education, and compassionate guidance, our couples therapists specialize in sexless marriages contribute to the overall well-being and resilience of couples facing challenges in their intimate lives.
To begin, click below to book a phone consult to work with our intimacy and sex focused couples therapists and sexuality specialists to rebuild you sex life.
What’s the difference between a couples therapist and intimacy therapist?
At Wisdom Within Counseling, you get to work with couples therapists who are also Certified Sex Therapy Informed Professionals (CSTIP) and Level 2 Gottman Marriage Therapists.
In addition to having a master’s degree, our Wisdom Within Counseling team have taken extensive trainings in sex, sexuality, sexual pleasure, sexual anatomy, and sexual intimacy.
To note, this means our team of therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling have extra education specializing in sex, intimacy, and sexuality. Our team is also a group of LGBTQIA+ queer affirming therapists, so you can feels safe talking about your sexual orientation, relationship structure, sexual kinks, or exploring polyamory.
Where in Florida do the intimacy and sex focused marriage therapists help couples?
In Brevard County, Florida, our Wisdom Within Counseling team of intimacy and sex focused couples counselors helps sexually disconnected couples in Titusville, Cocoa, Cocoa Beach, Merritt Island, Rockledge, Cape Canaveral, Satellite Beach, Indian Harbour Beach, Indialantic, Melbourne Beach, West Melbourne, Melbourne, Palm Bay, Grant-Valkaria, Malabar, Satellite Beach, Indian Harbor Beach, and Viera.
Outside of Brevard County, Florida, Wisdom Within Counseling helps couples with intimacy issues in Naples, Palm Beach, Fisher Island, Key Biscayne, Boca Raton, Coral Gables, Sarasota, Pinecrest, Jupiter Island, Fort Lauderdale, Miami Beach, Key West, Marathon, Weston, Parkland, Coral Springs, Windermere, Winter Park, Belle Isle, Longboat Key, Ponte Vedra Beach, Sanibel, Tampa, Orlando, and more.
You don’t have to stay frustrated sexually, rejected, alone, and stressed out about your sex life in your marriage.
Our team of intimacy and sex focused couples therapists in Melbourne, Florida would love to support you and your partner in developing sexual confidence.
You can learn skills to rebuild emotional intimacy and help each other feel wanted, desired, important, and attractive.
