What is polyamory?
When you identify as polyamorous, you are often in an ethically non-monogamous relationship. Even though society views these as alternative relationships, millions of people are polyamorous. Polyamory is a style of relationship where you may have multiple romantic, sexual, and emotional partners. All partners are consenting to the style of relationship. There is honest communication upfront. In some polyamorous relationships, everyone lives together. But, in other polyamorous relationships, everyone lives separately. Wisdom Within Counseling is a group of polyamory specialists in couples counseling.
To begin, click below for a phone consult to work with our polyamory affirming therapists who specialize in ENM couples counseling.
Polyamory means that you have a lot of love to give.
You may feel like you can love multiple people at the same time. When you identify as polyamorous, you may have a deep desire to love multiple people. As well, you may have a deep desire to be loved by multiple people. For many people who identify as polyamorous, it is very fulfilling to have multiple sexual, romantic, and emotional relationships. To note, you may feel that you absolutely need to have multiple partners to meet a variety of different of your love needs. Some cultures demonize polyamory. Instead, at Wisdom Within Counseling, our therapists are affirming of polyamorous and ethically non-monogamous couples.
Our polyamory affirming therapists specialize in couples counseling to support you in being polyamorous in a monogamous society
Unfortunately, the American society is very monogamous focused. This means that when you grow up, you typically have two parents guiding you. You may not have grown up in a polyamorous or ethically non-monogamous society. This means that your role models demonstrated a relationship with two people. If you come out to your parents as polyamorous, they may reject you. Or, your parents may tell you that you are wrong for wanting to be an ethically non-monogamous relationship. You might be on a journey of trying to find your own polyamory affirming support network. Our team of therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling can be part of your polyamorous support network.
To begin, click below for a phone consult to for consensual non-monogamous couples counseling with our polyamory specialists.
Where does shame and guilt come from?
As well, being raised in a strict, religious culture can lead you to experience internal shame and guilt. You might wonder if your parents find out that you are polyamorous, will they accept you. Also, you wonder if your monogamous parents will have prejudice towards you for being ethically non-monogamous. If you identify as polyamorous, you may experience internal shame, guilt, and fear. You might not know how to come out to your family. Especially, when you are raised in a highly religious culture or upbringing, being polyamorous can lead you to feel anxiety.
You can work on overcoming stigmas with our polyamory affirming therapists who specialize in couples counseling
Wanting a different type of relationship than you saw your role models have leads to fear being ostracized. Because you want something different, polyamory, you may have to keep this a secret from your parents. Even if your parents have a very negative and hateful reaction towards you, you may choose to separate from them emotionally. You may decide to set some healthy boundaries with your parents because they don’t accept your polyamorous partners. These can all be great things to talk about with the polyamory affirming therapists who specialize in couples counseling at Wisdom Within.
People who are polyamorous and ethically non-monogamous can have beautiful, honest, and loving relationships with multiple people at the same time. Sometimes, polyamory is considered an open relationship. Or, some people called it consensual non-monogamy. However, whether you call it consensual non-monogamy or ethical non-monogamy, polyamory is about having honest communication. Honest communication supports multiple romantic, sexual, and emotional relationships at the same time.
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Let’s talk about the benefits of polyamorous relationships
Plus, polyamorous relationships have many benefits.
Explore kinks, BDSM, power dynamics, and fetishes with partners who enjoy those too
For instance, one of your partners may fulfill a different sexual fantasy than the others. Let’s say your primary partner is not into something specific that turns you on. Another partner can help fulfill this kink or fetish for you. You can talk about kinks, BDSM, power dynamics, and fetishes. Furthermore, with our polyamory specialists, who specialize in couples counseling, you can talk about what turns you on. Sexual fantasies, your erotic map, and BDSM are all great topics to bring to polyamory affirming couples therapy.
More quality time together
As well, your primary partner may work long hours. As a result, your needs for quality time together may not be fulfilled. Therefore, secondary partner may be able to spend more time with you. This can be positive, meeting your love need for quality time together.
Emotional, physical, and sexual support
Plus, polyamorous partners can bring different types of smiles to your face. Each person you date can provide you with different types of love, care, and support. Many times, talking with our polyamory specialists in couples counseling can give you a safe space to talk about your love languages. Some people may choose to be polyamorous for diverse sexual experiences. On the other hand, some people choose to be polyamorous for emotional bonding and emotional intimacy. Notably, not all polyamorous relationships are sexual in nature. You may have emotional bonds with multiple partners that support you in a deep way.
Sexual orientation expressiveness and exploration
When you are bisexual, pansexual, or have a fluid sexual orientation, you may want to explore an open relationship structure. For instance, being bisexual may mean you want to date a male and a female at the same time. As well, when you are queer or fluid in your sexual orientation, you may want to explore different genders sexually. More often than not, or monogamous society tells us to marry someone of the opposite gender, have children, and that this is the only way to be.
The ethically non-monogamous couples therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling help you overcome these limiting stereotypes.
Your sexuality and sexual orientation can be very fluid throughout your entire lifespan. In your early 20’s, what you found attractive may not be attractive to you anymore. Perhaps, you were influenced by media, what you thought you should be doing, and culture. Maybe, you even made choices to please your parents based on what you thought they would find acceptable. You may be craving sexual diversity and want to explore your sexuality through polyamory.
No matter how are you identify in terms of your gender, it is normal and acceptable to be attracted to all different types of genders.
If you have only been with opposite gender sexually, you might want to try being with someone of the same sex or gender. As well, you don’t just have to have one, monogamous sexual partner for the rest of your life. You can learn to create healthy relationships through ethically non-monogamous couples therapy. Also, you can create your own type of family, and confidently embrace alternative relationship structures.
To begin, click below for a phone consult to for consensual non-monogamous couples counseling with our polyamory specialists.
Our polyamory affirming therapists can help you talk about certain guidelines that work for you in couples counseling.
There may be hierarchy in you polyamorous relationship. This means, your longest term partner, or your partner that you live with takes precedence. If your primary partner wants to spend time with you on a Friday night, they come first. However, some primary partners are understanding if you are looking to spend time with a secondary partner. But, sometimes, there is anger, distress, and conflict in polyamorous relationships. When your primary partner feels jealous, anxious, or upset about you spending time with a secondary partner, this is where polyamory affirming couples therapy can be helpful.
Talk about role of a primary partner when working with the polyamory affirming therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling
There is a hierarchy in some polyamorous relationships.
Additionally, a primary partner may also have more input regarding major life decisions. A primary partner may also have a greater influence on you, if they feel that you are spending too much time with a secondary partner. This can lead to conflicts around jealousy and anxiety. These can be great topics for polyamory affirming couples therapy. The team at Wisdom Within Counseling specialize in couples counseling with ethically non monogamous couples.
In some polyamorous relationships, there is no hierarchy.
This means that there is equality between all partners. Essentially, each partner gives and receives equal time to each other. Many times, these non-hierarchical relationships can be just as positive. In polyamorous affirming couples therapy, you can talk about what you need and want. Couples counseling for polyamory can give you space to talk about whether a hierarchical, or non-hierarchical relationship is best for you.
To begin, click below for a phone consult to work with our polyamory affirming therapists who specialize in ENM couples counseling.
How can sexual trauma and complex trauma play a role in sex and intimacy issues?
Sexual, emotional, and physical trauma and abuse can lead to sex and intimacy issues in polyamorous relationships. In past relationships and in childhood, you may have experiences of sexual, emotional, and physical trauma and abuse. Being touched in an unwanted, sexual way in childhood can lead to fears of intimacy and adulthood. Having a parent that objectified your body in a sexual way can be very traumatizing. If you experienced incest, molestation, or rape, these sexual traumas can impact intimacy in romantic relationships.
Trauma symptoms and trauma triggers can lead to fear of intimacy. As well, it may be difficult to receive touch in your polyamorous relationship due to sexual, emotional, and physical trauma and abuse.
When your partners touch you, you may have a panic attack, become tearful, or get angry. As a result of sexual, emotional, and physical trauma and abuse, you may sexually reject your partners. This can lead them to feel confused, if they don’t know about your trauma story. At Wisdom Within Counseling, our polyamory specialists specialize in couples counseling and relationship therapy.
Ethically non-monogamous couples counseling can be your safe place to talk about sexual, emotional, and physical trauma and abuse
You may want to talk with a trauma trained couples therapist about your experiences of sexual, emotional, and physical trauma and abuse. As well, our polyamory affirming therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling can teach you positive coping strategies. When you have a PTSD flashback, you can learn to self-regulate.
Self-regulation and self-soothing skills can be positive. Learning to release intense emotions in healthy ways helps you build positive relationship with others. You and your polyamorous partners can gain positive coping skills together. Learning to deeply breath, communicate in healthy ways, and reduce anger can all be benefits of meeting with our polyamory affirming therapists.
To begin, click below for a phone consult to work with our ethically non-monogamous couples therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling.
Sharing your trauma story with our polyamory specialists who specialize in couples counseling can be healing
To add, you may want to work with a polyamory affirming couples therapist to share your story of sexual, emotional, and physical trauma and abuse with your partners. Giving your partners information on your past can help them care for you better. As well, when you partners understand your sexual, emotional, and physical trauma and abuse story, they can nurture you better.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, we support polyamorous partners in understanding trauma symptoms. Understanding trauma symptoms can lead to a more relationship connection and bonding. You may also learn about your partners’ sexual, emotional, and physical trauma and abuse stories and experiences in couples therapy.
Working with our polyamory specialists in couples counseling can help partners talk about sexual, emotional, and physical trauma. In couples counseling, partners can talk about what they need when triggered. As well, partners can talk about how surviving sexual and emotional trauma can impact them sexually.
Furthermore, each person has to work in couples therapy to personally gain coping tools. Being loved can help heal past trauma. But, each individual needs to heal their own inner child wounds and past trauma. Partners can offer reassurance and love along the trauma healing journey.
The Wisdom Within Counseling polyamory specialists can help partners navigate surviving sexual, emotional, and physical trauma. In couples counseling, partners can talk about needs such as reassurance, grounding strategies, emotional validation, and normalize trauma symptoms.
Dishonest communication is a good reason to start in polyamorous affirming couples therapy with a specialist at Wisdom Within Counseling
As well, within ethically non-monogamous relationships, violations of consent can lead to betrayals. Hurt, betrayal, and fears of dishonesty can lead to sex and intimacy issues. Often, polyamorous partners are always talking about consent. Talking about consent and keeping it an ongoing conversation can be a part of ethically non-monogamous couples counseling.
What are some sexual and intimacy issues that polyamorous couples face?
Some sexual issues couples face are include erectile dysfunction, premature ejactulation, orgasming issues, shame and guilt around sexual fantasies, painful sex, alcoholism and drug use, and more.
Alcoholism and drug use can lead to problems and are a good topic for our polyamory affirming therapists who specialize in couples counseling
When a your partner struggles with alcoholism, it can be very challenging. Watching your partner drink more and more alcohol can lead to you feel upset and torn.
A part of you wants to help you partner who is struggling with alcoholism. As well, alcoholism and drug use can lead to negative communication problems. High conflict fights may occur as a result of alcoholism and drug use. Partners may drink alcohol together and yell, call each other names, or speak in negative ways. Toxic communication tactics are more common when under the influence of drugs and alcohol. Heavy alcohol and drug use can lead to issues parenting, being a loving partner, and issues being mentally present. As a partner, you may feel concerned and confused about how to get your partner to reduce their alcohol and drug use.
To begin, click below for a phone consult to work with our polyamory affirming therapists who specialize in ENM couples counseling.
Working with the Wisdom Within Counseling polyamory specialists in couples therapists help you understand generational trauma due to alcoholism.
Your partners may have a family member or parent who was an alcoholic too. You may also identify with being an adult child of alcoholics. When your parent was drinking alcohol and using drugs, they may have verbally abused you. As well, you parents may have had narcissistic traits. You and your partners may identify as adult children of alcoholics. Couples therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling can be a safe place to gain insight on negative generational patterns you want to change.
Why do couples have issues initiating and refusing sex in your polyamorous relationship?
To note, distant couples tend to get in the pursuer and distance certain dynamic. Your polyamory specialist and couples therapist can identify if you are stuck in the pursuer and distancer dynamic. In this dynamic, one person becomes the pursuer. And, the other person becomes the distancer. Now, the more the pursuer tries to initiate sex, the more the other person rejects sex. And then, the distancer rejects and declines sex. As a result of sexual rejection, the pursuer may feel lonely, distressed, and depressed. It doesn’t feel good to be sexually rejected. Also, a pursuer may also feel lonely and even sexually disappointed. Deep down, the distancer may feel sexually insecure or sexually inadequate.
A distancer, who declines sexual advances, may lack sexual confidence. In general, at Wisdom Within Counseling, working with the polyamory specialists can support sexual skills.
Improving sexual skills support sexual satisfaction. As well, when facing sexual rejection, the pursuer may wonder if they are still attractive. They may wonder if their partner still finds them sexy. Overall, from sexual rejection and refusal to have sex, the pursuer feels unwanted sexually.
Other challenges couples face initiating sex may be from struggles to speak up in childhood
As well, one person may need help speaking up and initiating sex. One person may struggle to initiate sex, and struggle to ask for what they need. It can be challenging to ask, advocate, and speak up. There can be self-sabotaging behaviors that play into initiating sex.
Due to various childhood influences, you or your partner may have learned to stay quiet. Growing up, speaking up was not encouraged. As well, growing up, parents may have given messages that sex is dirty or taboo. It can be a process in couples therapy, to re-learn how to be in tough with your partners sexually. Sex can be a healthy topic for couples in counseling to discuss and talk about.
Not having a voice in childhood can lead to issues initiating sex.
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Marriage therapy can be a safe safe to learn to initiate sex
Couples therapy can be a safe place to talk about initiation styles for sex.
For instance, giving your partner a foot rub can be a way to get sexually playful. The part of the brain that corresponds to feet is next to the part of the brain that corresponds to genitals. A foot rub can also lead to feelings of relaxation.
You might move from massaging your partner’s feet to their inner things, and see what happens. There should be no pressure or focus on an outcome when it comes to a massage. Rather, just feel what comes up and keep the mood playful, rather than stressful. To add, increasing touch as a whole can be a way to bridge the gap and begin to initiate sex.
Do you have barriers or limitations when it comes to initiate touch, sex, and being intimate with your spouse or partner?
However, couples counseling can be helpful when you and your partners have issues initiating touch. Marriage counseling can be a safe place to talk about limitations to touch and what makes touch stressful for you both. There may be many issues that hold you back from initiating touch, intimacy, and sex.
Your couples therapist at Wisdom Within Counseling can be supportive and encouraging when it feels new or uncomfortable to initiate sexual pleasure. As well, sending your partners dirty or sexy texts throughout the day can be a method to get in a sexy mood.
Foreplay can occur throughout your entire day. You don’t have to be physically next to your partners to get sexually playful. Essentially, your couples therapist at Wisdom Within Counseling can support sexual playfulness and intimacy. In a stressful world, intimacy and sex can fall to the back burner. Overall, it can be helpful to have a regular couples counseling session to refocus on sex and intimacy.
Doing housework or completing chores can also be a way to get sexually playful. As well, learning that talking about sex itself in childhood is taboo or dirty can lead to intimacy issues in married life.
When you grow up thinking sex and intimacy are taboo or dirty subjects, these messages can cause negative consequences.
In your intimate sex life, you may need to work with a couples therapist to explore the meaning of sex and intimate. You may identify that you really can’t express yourself sexually due to your upbringing. There is a level of motivation, dominance, and passion required to initiate sex. When you grow up with limiting, negative messages around sex, you may experience sex and intimacy issues.
The team at Wisdom Within Counseling can help you better understand how to initiate sex. A person may have been reprimanded as a child for speaking up and having tried to speak up. Learning to stay quiet becomes an engrained behavior. Instead of staying silent, partners can learn to initiate sex. Silence can also be a freeze trauma response.
Talking about trauma responses can be a part of couples counseling at Wisdom Within.
For instance, couples can begin asking, “Can I make out with you now?” or, “I would like to have sex or play around sexually. Is now a good time for you?” It may feel uncomfortable to talk with your partners about sex and intimacy without the help of a couples therapist.
Working with a therapist who is comfortable talking about intimacy and sex can help you become more comfortable talking about sex. In couples counseling, you can talk about sex and intimacy in a healthy way. Right now, you may feel stressed out when you think about initiating sex. You may be stuck in a freeze mode or freeze response. Therefore, at Wisdom Within Counseling, you can talk about your sexual needs, your sexual desires, your sexual fantasies, and your sex life.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, the polyamory specialists in couples counseling help couples open their marriage and begin ethical non monogamy.
Also, monogamous couples choose to consensually open their marriage as a result of different sexual desires and needs. Mis-matched sexual desires can be a reason couples choose to explore polyamory. When couples talk, they may decide that polyamory is supportive for them both.
At times, monogamous partners may choose to open their marriage, especially when one person is not interested in sex or identifies as asexual. This can allow the person initiating sex to explore diverse sexual experiences with out having to get divorced. Sexual satisfaction in the marriage can increase when the pursuer and distancer cycle stops.
To begin, click below for a phone consult to work with our ethically non-monogamous marriage therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling.
In couples counseling, our polyamory specialists teach sexual skills for sexual confidence
One person may have grown up in an environment with intense sexual shame and guilt. A person may feel sexually insecure. As well, one person may not want to do the things their partner is requesting them to do. Certain kinks and fetishes may not align. They may feel uncomfortable when their partner comes on to them and they then refuse sex.
Additionally, another reason why one person initiates sex and the other person refuses sex is because they are sexually shy.
Furthermore, if one partner has more sexual experience and is more sexually confident, this can be intimidating. Perhaps, one person has had diverse sexual experiences for years. But, another person is a virgin still, or has only been with one or two partners. Maybe, they have never used a sex toy before.
As well, sexual rejection can be from sensory issues. One person doesn’t like being touched as much, or at all. Sometimes people have mis-matched love languages. If one person loves touch and feels loved through touch, mis-matched love languages pose a problem. On that note, a partner may be touch avoidant, or be sensitive to touch, leading to sexual rejection.
Working with our polyamory specialists in couples counseling help you feel comfortable talking about sex and intimacy
You can talk about the sensitive topic of sex and intimacy in polyamory affirming couples therapy. At Wisdom Within Counseling, your polyamory friendly couples therapist can make talking about sex and intimacy more comfortable. Many times, couples avoid talking about sex and intimacy. Couples become overwhelmed easily when talking about sex and intimacy. If you find it extremely challenging to talk with your partner about your sexual needs and intimacy, working with the team of polyamory specialists at Wisdom Within Counseling can help.
If you are always being sexually rejected or denied sex, you may begin to feel very lonely.
A polyamorous or ethically non-monogamous relationship may be right for you and your partner. You may even develop resentment, or fear stress that you will never be given sex again by your partner. Talking about opening your marriage and exploring ethical non-monogamy can be really positive. Polyamory and ethical non-monogamy can allow you and your partner to feel less pressure.
When you have a higher sex drive, ethical non-monogamy can allow you partner to not have to please you. You can get sexual needs met from a variety of people, in a consensual way. And, when you have a higher sex drive, you can feel excitement by getting your sexual needs met, verses feeling denied.
To begin, click below for a phone consult to work with our polyamory affirming therapists to improve your sex life, intimacy, and sexual satisfaction.
Ethically non-monogamous relationship and couples therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling teaches sexual skills
As well, whether you are in a monogamous or an ethically non-monogamous relationship, couples therapy can be a place to help partners learn sexual education and sexual skills. You don’t learn in school where to find a female’s clitoris. And, you don’t learn how to provide oral sex in school. It can be intimidating learning to use a butt plug or explore anal sex for the first time. At Wisdom Within Counseling, you can gain proper sexual education and sexual skills.
More often than not, people get their sex education from pornography. Pornography is not sex education though.
We grow up in an environment where parents do not properly educate us on sex.
Parents are uncomfortable talking about sex. This means that you grow up learning that sex and intimacy are taboo topics. As a result, couples bring these issues into their romantic relationships. Think sex and intimacy are taboo subjects leads to intimacy issues.
Working with a polyamorous therapy specialist at Wisdom Within Counseling can help you feel comfortable talking about sex and intimacy.
Your couples therapist can teach you sexual skills that make sex easier and more fun. As well, you can talk about role play, BDSM, kinks, fetishes, and using new sex toys. There may be sexual myths you need to overcome through proper sexual health education. At times, a partner feel that incorporating sex toys means they are bad at sex. In reality, sex toys can promote sexual satisfaction and don’t mean you are bad at sex. Overcoming myths about sex toys and sex in general are parts of working with a couples therapist and polyamory specialist.
Sex toys can actually be a wonderful and fun part of your sex life.
As well, using sex toys together can promote sexual pleasure, multiple orgasms, sexual expressiveness, and sexual freedom. Couples therapy with a polyamory specialist at Wisdom Within Counseling can help you incorporate sex toys. You can bring more novelty, fun, and playfulness into your sex life to support sexual pleasure.
There are all different sex toys you can talk about in marriage therapy.
Couples can explore dildos, butt plus, anal toys, nipple clamps, floggers, vibrators, and cock rings.
Additionally, couples can explore clitoris suckers, clitoris vibrators, wand vibrators, prostate sex toys, sex swings, bondage ropes, bed restraints, shibari ropes, harasses, and even erotic furniture.
Many times, we don’t get proper encouragement or sexual education on using sex toys. As well, there may be myths or apprehensions that come up when thinking about using a new sex toy.
You don’t have to be afraid of using sex toys. Marriage counseling can be a safe place to begin exploring kinks, and to ask for what you want. Couples therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling can be about sharing your sexual fantasies with your partners.
In intimacy and couples counseling, you can talk about sexual apprehension, fears, and anxiety.
To add, you can talk about sexual insecurities and gain confidence around your sexual skills. Partners can learn about the female pleasure system and orgasmic system. As well, working with our polyamory specialists in couples counseling can help you understand the value and importance of foreplay. Couples in counseling can gain sexual skills to become more confident sexual partners.
Our culture and society provides terrible sex education. Many times, partners have a pre convinced notion that vaginal insertion is the only or best way to support the female orgasm. However, with proper sexual health education, partners can learn about how the female body can experience multiple orgasms.
Furthermore, many women can orgasm from nipple stimulation and clitoral stimulation much more easily than vaginal penetration. Notably, many women don’t orgasm from vaginal penetration alone. Vaginal penetration is not the only way to be sexually active. And, vaginal penetration is not the only way for a sexual experience to end too. So often, our culture puts too much focus on vaginal penetration.
Using sex toys can support a more diverse, playful, erotic, and orgasmic sexual experience and more intimacy.
Couples may need help improving communication around using sex toys, orgasms, and experiencing multiple orgasms. Your sex life doesn’t have to fall the the back burner. And, having a positive intimacy and sex life should not be avoided because it is overwhelming or uncomfortable.
As well, many women have never orgasmed. Some women are fearful of orgasming due to negative cultural myths and strict, religious views. Religious views can lead to shame and guilt, which are hurdles to improving your sex life. Negative myths can lead women to fear orgasming, or believe they don’t deserve to orgasm.
Couples therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling can be a place to overcome negative stigmas around orgasming, intimacy, and sexual pleasure. Having conversations around intimacy, sex, and sexual pleasure can be healthy. On that note, sex toys can support orgasming for the first time.
Your marriage and intimacy therapist can support you in talking about intimacy, orgasming, and you sex life. These topics can be taboo or something you get anxiety from talking about due to a strict, religious upbringing.
Working with a polyamory specialist in couples therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling can help you feel more confident giving and receiving sexually.
As a result of gaining proper sex education in proper sex skills, you can feel a deeper sense of bonding and closeness with your partners.
To begin, click below for a phone consult to work with our ethically non-monogamous couples therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling.
When you go through a break up from one of your polyamorous partners, it can be devastating.
On another note, you can talk about loss, heartbreak, and sadness with our polyamory specialists in couples counseling. You may be thinking that everything is going well. And, you are falling in love, more and more each day. A break up from one of your partners can be a trigger for depression and anxiety. You thought you were building something long-term and long-lasting. Many times, being broken up with leads to self-esteem and self-confidence issues.
Couples counseling can be a safe place to talk about how the break up impacts you with your other partners.
Overall, polyamory affirming couples counseling in your safe place to process anxiety, depression, hurt, and rejection. All the feelings you have due to your recent break up are valid. As a result of being broken up with, you may fear your other partners will break up with you too. You may fear abandonment from other sexual, emotional, and physical partners.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, you can talk about loss, grief, and anger after a break up with our polyamory specialists in couples therapy
A break up can make you feel small, invalid, insignificant. Polyamory affirming couples therapy can help you self-reflect and gain insight.
A mixture of individual therapy sessions alongside couples therapy sessions can be helpful. After a break up with one of your partners, you may feel more depressed around your other partners.
It can help to talk to them in polyamory affirming couples therapy, so they know what you are going through. As well, you may also feel partly grateful that you have the emotional support from your other polyamorous partners.
When you are going the grief and loss, you may feel appreciative of your other polyamorous partners being there for you. Being able to verbalize your appreciation to them can be parts of polyamory affirming couples therapy. As well, positive coping tools from counseling can help you overcome and release difficult feelings. Painting, expressive arts, yoga and meditation, and mind body therapies can offer mental relief. In addition to traditional talk therapy, Wisdom Within Counseling offer creative, holistic, and alternative therapies.
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A mixture of holistic, creative, and somatic coping tools are available at Wisdom Within Counseling.
For instance, to let go of anger and grief, you can take part in art, painting, use clay, and colors to express yourself. Painting can be a language beyond words for coping with grief, anger, and loss.
As well, you can do yoga therapy, meditation, and mindful breathing skills with your polyamorous specialist. Yoga, meditation, and breathing skills can help you lower anxiety and live in the present moment.
Furthermore, you can use music therapy, musical instruments, songs, and drumming to process and release what you are feeling.
Holistic, creative, and mind body therapies offer alternatives to words. You can also go for a walking therapy session outdoors in nature with your marriage therapist.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, our team of therapists believe in options beyond just sitting and talking. You and your partners can take part in art, yoga, music and expressive therapies from any location. Video and in person therapy for polyamorous couples is available.
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Where can I work with the team of polyamory specialists in couples counseling?
The team of family and marriage therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling help polyamorous and ethically non-monogamous couples in Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansa, Louisiana, Tennessee North Carolina, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Maryland, Delaware, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, New Hampshire, and Maine.
In Florida, where can I polyamorous and ethically non-monogamous marriage therapy and couples counseling?
As well, in Florida, Wisdom Within Counseling helps polyamorous and ethically non-monogamous couples in Oviedo, Destin, Lake Mary, Tampa, Sarasota, Bradenton, Pensacola, Gainesville, Winter Haven, Melbourne, Cooper City, Naples, Tallahassee, Apalachicola, Daytona Beach, Jacksonville, Cape Coral, Miami, Orlando, Marco Island, Key Biscayne, Satellite Beach, Atlantic Beach, Cocoa Beach, Lynn Haven, Melbourne Beach, Weston, North Palm Beach, Fisher Island, West Palm Beach, Palm Beach, Port St. Lucie, Leesburg, Lakeland, Lake City, Indian Harbor Beach, Longboat Key, Marathon, Safety Harbor, Neptune Beach, Ocala, Sanibel, Sweetwater, Sanford, Crystal River, Sebastian, Groveland, Pinecrest, Doral, Mexico Beach, Key West, Sunny Isles Beach, Boca Raton, Palatka, Coral Gables, Coconut Grove, Tequesta, Minneola, Fort Myers, Port Charlotte, Punta Gorda, Winter Park, Dunedin, Parkland, Florida.
Where in Connecticut do the polyamorous and ethically non-monogamous marriage therapists support distant couples?
Our polyamorous and ethically non-monogamous marriage therapists support couples in Andover, Farmington, New London, Colchester, Hebron, Avon, Chester, East Haddam, Wilton, Westport, Groton, Mystic, Southport, Simsbury, Old Saybrook, New Haven, Berlin, North Haven, Bloomfield, Hartford, Southington, Bolton, East Lyme, Lyme, Naugatuck, Hartland, Glastonbury, Cheshire, Chester, West Hartford, Guilford, Madison, Stafford, Sterling, Norwich, Bristol, Suffield, Burlington, East Hampton, Old Lyme, Manchester, Tolland, Bethel, Bridgewater, Brookfield, Danbury, Darien, Clinton, Durham, Newington, Middletown, Meriden, Greenwich, New Canaan, New Fairfield, Union City, Columbia, Hebron, Plainville, Coventry, Killingly, Plymouth, Wethersfield, Wallingford, Middlebury, Storrs, Manchester, Cromwell, Meriden, Middletown, Wallingford, Wethersfield, Stonington, Pawcatuck, Connecticut.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, the polyamory affirming therapists specialize in polyamorous and ethically non-monogamous couples counseling
Why work with the Wisdom Within Counseling polyamory specialists in couples therapy?
Many times, working with a traditional marriage therapist can make you feel upset or blamed for wanting polyamory.
When you work with a couples therapist who is not polyamorous affirming, you may be told to stop being ethically monogamous. A true polyamory affirming couples therapist will not do this.
As well, you should never feel prejudice or judgement from a marriage therapist. Rather, a kink and polyamory friendly therapist at Wisdom Within Counseling is accepting of your relationship choices. They may help you learn tools for healthy, honest communication.
More so, a polyamory affirming therapist will offer a safe space for all of your emotions and feelings.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, you get a space to discuss kinks, fetishes, BDSM, power dynamics, sexual fantasies, and sexual desires.
Your Wisdom Within Counseling therapist can help you create and maintain a loving, supportive polyamorous relationship structure. In general, your therapist can help all partners feel validated, heard, and express their emotions.
Not all marriage therapists have extensive LGBTQIA+ training in how polyamorous relationships can be positive and enjoyable. Unfortunately, many uneducated therapists, family, and friends demonize open relationships and ethically non-monogamy.
Notably, the team of therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling can help you feel supported navigating your polyamorous relationships. To add, meeting with a therapist at Wisdom Within Counseling means you get a polyamory friendly therapist who understand polyamorous relationships can be healthy.
The team of Wisdom Within Counseling polyamory specialists help couples explore and navigate consensually open relationships. Couples can learn to talk about challenging, intense, and uncomfortable topics with the help of an ethically non-monogamous couples therapist.
Ethically non-monogamous couples counseling helps you navigate jealousy, anger, distress, anxiety, and more. Overall, you won’t be blamed or criticized that all your relationship issues are due to wanting a polyamorous relationship.
When it comes to opening your relationship, exploring polyamory, and ENM, Wisdom Within Counseling can help.
Working with the polyamory specialists in couples counseling can give you space to emotionally express yourself. You can talk about intimacy, erotic desire, your sex life, sex toys, and sexual pleasure.
Furthermore, meeting with the polyamory specialists at Wisdom Within Counseling can help you prioritize your romance and relationships.
Work responsibilities, child care, running a home, and intense conflicts can get in the way of a healthy sex life and intimacy. In couples counseling, ethically non monogamous couples can gain healthy communication skills.
Learning to talk about anger, anxiety, and childhood trauma can be very positive in marriage counseling. Ethically non monogamous marriage counseling can help you feel comfortable talking about your open relationship.
