To add, intimacy corresponds to physical, emotional, and spiritual connection. Often times, couples get into arguments because one person has a high sex drive and the other person has a low sex drive. Perhaps, at the beginning of your relationship, things went so well sexually because you both felt you were on the same page. Furthermore, sex and intimacy therapy in Southeastern Connecticut supports a happy, positive sexual life.
Additionally, when you think back to the beginning of your relationship, you might describe it as hot and heavy.
Times were really good back then and you were passionately in love. However, overtime, getting married, losses, having children, work stress, having relatives with mental and physical illness, and your own chronic pain can all play a role in sex drive changing.
How can sex and intimacy counseling within marriage counseling support couples who have different sex drives?
When one person has a high sex drive any other person has a low sex drive, there may be emotions like anger, frustration, irritability, and conflict overall. Also, couples who have miss matched sex drives make it into more arguments and need help learning how to love each other more deeply. When one of you has a high sex drive and the other has a low sex drive, an intimacy and marriage therapist can help you talk about sex calmly.
You can have a safe place to talk about your sexual needs, fears, and worries.
You or your partner may have a fear of failure in the bedroom. As well, you or your partner may fear that you will not be able to meet your partners expectations. If there has been any criticism around sexual activities in the bedroom, feelings of past rejection play a role. You or your partner may feel rejection and therefore frustration around sexual activities.
How can sex, relationship, and intimacy therapy in Southeastern Connecticut help couples begin?
Additionally, intimacy and marriage counseling in Southeastern Connecticut support couples who are struggling to meet each other. Marriage therapy helps couples learn how to begin intimacy. At times, one person may feel like their partner is being too aggressive which can create a turn off. One person relationship might feel like they are initiating sex too much and the scale is out of balance.
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Couples who struggle to begin intimacy may not have enough time for intimacy in their lives.
Stress around work, getting ready for the next day, and anxiety as a whole can prevent couple for making time for sex. Now, when we are talking about sex, we are not just talking about intercourse.
Instead, as marriage therapist who specialize in intimacy, we are talking about a long, sensual, and passionate experience. Intimacy therapy is all about developing a deeper expression of yourself, supported by your partner.
And, offering a safe space for your partner to express themselves sexually and sensually with you. There is such a beautiful and intimate connection that can unfold when couples brings playfulness into the bedroom. However, fear, shame, betrayal, rejection and anxiety create problems in the bedroom.
How do big emotions play a role in sex life, desire, and sexual pleasure?
For one, if your partner has been looking at pornography, having an affair, or talking to people outside of your relationship, you might feel betrayal. It might be hard for you to feel safe and open up in the bedroom due to these anxieties.
Therefore, working with an intimacy and marriage therapist in Southeastern Connecticut can help you talk about betrayal in a safe and calm way. You can talk about losses and why you want to repair your sex life.
Any sense of betrayal creates problems in the bedroom and couples therapy in Southeastern Connecticut can help.
Likewise, learning that your partner has been having an affair or has been cheating is heartbreaking. Betrayals damage sex life, but it is repairable with regular counseling. For some couples, pornography addiction and emotional cheating create a deep sense of betrayal.
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What are some benefits of attending sex, intimacy, and marriage therapy in Southeastern Connecticut?
We don’t get to learn about how to build a healthy sex life until we are in a long-term relationship many times.
In high school, we learn about math and science. But, we don’t learn about how to be intimate in the bedroom. So, it’s in marriage counseling in Southeastern Connecticut where you can gain sexual education.
Marriage therapy can be that safe place for you and your partner to explore sex needs and desires.
You can have a marriage therapist who is confident about talking about physical anatomy. As well, your Southeastern Connecticut sex and marriage therapist can help you get to know your own body, and your partner’s.
What stressors cause issues and problems sexually for people?
Overtime, with pregnancy, parenting, and even losses and traumas in life, sex drive can change. As well, infertility or IVF takes a toll on your sex life. If you’re really stressed out, your hormones are being used specifically for managing stress. Also, when your cortisol and adrenaline are running high, your brain have a very difficult time getting aroused.
Sexual arousal is considered a luxury for your brain. Holistic, mind-body therapy is at Wisdom Within counseling support stress management. Art therapies, yoga therapies, meditation, and even outdoor walking session support couples and managing stress together.
Can a messy bedroom create problems around desire, sex and intimacy?
Yes, we have to take the time to create a safe environment such as cleaning the bedroom and organizing clothes.
Likewise, if your bedroom is this organized, your mind will not be able to focus on receiving pleasure. Instead, you might be thinking about the loads of laundry that need to be done and the to do list.
How to prepare the bedroom for sex from a sex and intimacy therapy in Southeastern Connecticut?
Also, couples also need to make sure that their bedroom smells good. Take the time to invest in a few low lights for romantic lighting. Furthermore, make a playlist of songs that support a healthy sexual experience.
More so, make your bedroom into intimate, sensual space. Additionally, couples can use marriage counseling in Southeastern Connecticut to prioritize talking about intimacy and sexual needs together.
Sex, intimacy, and marriage therapy in Southeastern Connecticut teachers couples how to have and maintain a healthy sex life
Often times, couples are trying to shift out of work brain and right into a sexy brain and that is just not possible.
Building in foreplay, sensual touch, and sensitive touch can help couples transition from stress into sexy modes. So, weekly couples therapy session helps you and your partner have these intimate, emotional, and playful conversations. Often, these are sexual conversations that you have been lacking and not having.
How does emotional intimacy creates a pathway for physical intimacy and healthy sex life?
Often times, couples stop talking. They stop sharing about their day. And, couples develop more tension, distance, and loneliness because of a lack of sharing. Lack of communication as a whole damages a relationship. Often times, a person stops sharing things about their day because it seems like their partner is ignoring them or not caring about them. It might feel like your partner has 100 better things to do than listen to the stories of your day. Perhaps, your partner has no idea that you feel ignored or pushed decide.
To note, building emotional intimacy and improving communication will improve your sex life.
Couples never have a chance to talk about the emotions they feel or express them when life gets busy.
Maybe, it seems like your partner closes up or shuts down emotionally when you try to talk. Couples therapy in Southeastern Connecticut can be that safe place to help you and your partner talk about all the emotions that are coming up for you.
What intense emotions may be a part of sexual conversations in marriage counseling?
Talking about sex can bring up intense emotions like sadness, loss, fears, worries, and even jealousy. Any sort of betrayal needs to be talked about with a professional marriage and intimacy therapist. Betrayal and mistrust of any kind will often prevent an orgasm. Essentially, our bodies need preparation orgasm on an emotional level. A sense of security, playfulness, mystery, suspense, and passion are all interwoven with healthy sex life.
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If I sex life is okay, and we want to have more sex, can sex, intimacy and couples therapy in Southeastern Connecticut help us?
As well, talking about how much you want to have sex or be sexual is important in couples counseling. Some couples feel satisfied with sex twice a week where is other couples want to have sex every day.
Now, if you have gone months or even years without having sex, just know that working with an intimacy and marriage therapist at Wisdom Within Counseling can help you build confidence.
To add, talking together about the frequency of sex can improve your sex life. You can start talking about what your dream sexual fantasy might be like in Southeastern Connecticut intimacy counseling. You can talk about things like masturbation and how to pleasure yourself.
Maybe, you feel guilty for wanting a pleasurable and passionate sex life.
How can intimacy counseling in Southeastern Connecticut help me overcome guilt and shame?
Often times, our culture tells us that talking about sex and intimacy is taboo. Growing up, you might even felt cultural shame or shame from your parents. Also, your parents may have shamed you for your gender identity, your sexual orientation, or even dating. Additionally, you may have felt a sense of rejection or abandonment from your parents. Growing up in a strict religious household or with highly critical parents can lead to shame and guilt to this day.
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Working with an sexual intimacy and marriage therapist in Southeastern Connecticut supports confident sexual expression.
Learning how to express not only your sexual energy, but your gender identity is important in sex and marriage counseling. You might want to change the style of your hair or the color of your hair. These different changes can have an impact on your sex life in a positive way.
Can we talk about sex toys in the sex and intimacy counseling?
Additionally, intimacy and marriage therapy in southeastern Connecticut can support couples who want to talk about adding sex toys into their routine. If you feel like your sex life is boring or the same thing over and over, intimacy therapy can really give you a reboot. In Southeastern Connecticut, there are not many therapists who specialize in talking with couples about intimacy and pleasure.
Adding in sex toys can be a great way to brung spice and develop deeper sexual exploration.
As well, couples who have new, pleasurable experiences together in the bedroom have a happier and more satisfying sex life. And bringing in different types of lubricants, sex toys, vibrators, and more can be a part of Southeastern Connecticut intimacy counseling.
Processing and talking about sexual experiences and sex toys together is part of intimacy counseling in Southeastern Connecticut
As well, you might need a safe space to talk about the different experiences after using sex toys. Often, your partner might have different emotions like anxiety, frustration, uncertainty, excitement, or even deep pleasure. Verbally processing the experience after using a new sex toy with your partner or by yourself can be incredibly positive. At Wisdom Within Counseling, sex and intimacy therapy in Southeastern Connecticut support a happy sex life.
You get a safe place at Wisdom Within Counseling to talk about all the different emotions.
Also, you can discuss the pleasure your body experiences, and what you would like to do differently next time.
Often times, couples have sexual experiences together, but never have the ability or a chance to process them or talk about what they enjoyed. Sharing with your partner the parts of a past actual experience that was incredibly enjoyable for you and made you feel turned on is healthy.
Likewise, learning how to talk about past sexual experiences and highlight pleasurable experiences is an important part of a healthy marriage.
And, your intimacy therapist at Wisdom Within Counseling can encourage this discussion. To add, talking about past pleasurable experiences can create foreplay and turn your partner on for a future sexual experience.
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Who is Southeastern Connecticut intimacy and sex therapy for for?
Intimacy and marriage counseling in Southeastern Connecticut support couples who want to stay together, but feel like something is missing in their sex life. Sexual dysfunction issues can be topics in couples counseling. Additionally, and marriage and intimacy therapy in Southeastern Connecticut helps couples who struggle with premature ejaculation.
Premature ejaculation can develop from different health issues, depression, chronic pain, or even being on medication‘s.
A sex and intimacy therapist in Southeastern Connecticut can pinpoint the emotional and physical issues. Premature ejaculation can cause frustration, anxiety, and negative emotions. And, a man who has premature ejaculation disorder may end up doubting his abilities.
He may also feel criticized for his partner for not being able to perform. To add, there may also be anxiety about performance in general that contributes to premature ejaculation. Often times, working with a marriage and intimacy therapist can help a man understand the root cause of premature ejaculation and talk about these anxieties.
For the spouse of a man who has premature ejaculation disorder, intimacy counseling can be a safe place to talk about how sex.
There might be disappointments that need to be aired out. Marriage and intimacy therapy in Southeastern Connecticut can be a safe place to overcome premature ejaculation as a couple and develop a safe space to heal.
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What intimacy therapy techniques can help premature ejaculation?
Different technique such as it start squeeze technique can be taught by your Wisdom Within a Counseling couples therapist. This can include touching the penis, getting it erect, and almost to the point of orgasm mean. Then, either the men or their partner squeezes the top of the penis. This prevents the orgasm and can delay ejaculation.
As well, this is a muscle training. Just like you would work out at the gym a few days a week to build muscles, training the penis is possible too. If your partner struggles with premature ejaculation, there is hope. In couples therapy and intimacy counseling you can talk about how the start squeeze technique can be used to help you and your partner over, premature ejaculation.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, we offer in person and video sessions.
We are also LGBTQIA+ affirming. We work often with same-sex couples, gay couples, lesbian couples, and couples who are looking to open their marriage. With that said, we also work with straight, and monogamous couples. No matter your relationship goals are on sex and intimacy, if it is lacking, you can feel very distant and alone. At Wisdom Within Counseling in Southeastern Connecticut, working to improve your intimacy has many benefits.
How can sex, marriage, and intimacy therapy support your overall health?
Couples who have a healthy sex life have been known to live longer. Likewise, learning to enjoy the entire process of a sexual experience can help you live a more present and happy life. Couples who are more in tune sexually have less arguments and conflicts. Therefore, there is a higher sense of trust and security and couples have a healthy, passionate sex life.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, we love talking with couples who need help improving their sex life, pleasure, passion, and intimacy.
Right now, it might feel like thinking about sex brings up anxiety or pressure. These are great feelings to bring to couples counseling in Southeastern Connecticut. In person, we have counseling offices in Niantic Connecticut by the Niantic bay boardwalk. We help families and Mystic, Stonington, Uncasville, Montville, Groton, Madison, Clinton, Guilford, East Lyme, Old Lyme, South Lyme, Lyme Shores, and Black Point.
Additionally, we help families and couples on video in Bloomfield, Essex, Wilton, Danberry, West Hartford, Colchester, Glastonbury, Berlin, Woodbury, Southbury, Middlebury and Rye, Connecticut. No matter where you are located in Connecticut, we can support you via video or in person.
How can mind-body therapies support trauma?
Additionally, we offer holistic, mind-body, somatic therapies for couples who need to heal from trauma. Affairs in betrayals can lead to trauma. Trauma symptoms can include trouble sleeping, panic attacks, flashbacks to negative memories, fears your partners cheating on you, and overall insecurity. Essentia Essentially, mind-body, holistic, somatic therapies switch your mind from trauma mode and fear mode into adventure mindset.
Creative, holistic therapies can repair trauma.
Art therapies, painting, yoga therapy is, meditation, music therapies, and even outdoor walking session support couples and rebuilding playfulness. Likewise, you got a safe space to talk about how you want to improve your sex life, reignite desire, and rekindle passion for healthy romance. Sex and intimacy therapy in Southeastern Connecticut supports pleasure, passion, and desire.
