Why start talking about sexual challenges and sexual dysfunctions with a professional marriage therapist?
When you come in for couples therapy, this is that special time set aside weekly. Each week, you can focus on an area of your relationship that you’re not able to talk with friends about or family about. Sexual pleasure and sexual needs are really delicate, sensitive subjects. A lot of couples love each other deeply, but also are struggling with lack of desire. There may be sexual dysfunctions like erectile dysfunction issues or premature ejaculation, or vaginal wetness. Couples may face physical challenges around chronic pain or scar tissue. As well, sex, intimacy and marriage therapy in Melbourne, Florida fosters closeness, consent, and emotional safety around sex.
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A lot of couples are struggling with low sex drive or fear of sexual inadequacies. You might want to learn how to incorporate new sex toys, vibrators, or lubricants. Many times, couples with sexual challenges are feeling confused, feeling hopeless, defeat, and feeling sexually rejected. If you’re in that challenging sexual space, couples therapy can help you get a whole new perspective. You can build playfulness and gain education on bettering your sex life and intimacy. From intimacy counseling, you can share emotions deeply to build safety. From there, you can confidently build up your sex life and talk about sexual pleasure. Overall, talking about sex in marriage counseling help you feel safe together being adventurous in your bedroom.
A big factor in sex life is a difference between libido, when partners have high and low libidos.
Someone with a low libido may have a different type of sexual need. One partner may want praise, positive affirmations or gifts of service to feel loved. Rather, a person with a high libido or high sex drive may feel loved instead through touch. Conflicts occur when one partner’s love need is not touch the other partner’s is touch.
When people have different libidos or a high sex drive and a low sex drive, this can create intimacy challenges.
One person might be wanting to have sex multiple times a week and are with a partner with a low libido. A person with a low sex drive may feel satisfied with sex once a week or even less. Someone with a high libido often has a love language need for touch and really feels loved when they are touched. Sex, intimacy and marriage therapy in Melbourne, Florida encouraged couples to talk about their sex drives, libidos, and how these fluctuate. Marriage counseling can be a safe place to talk about what increases sex drive and increasing foreplay.
Can meeting with a sex, intimacy and marriage therapist, like Katie Ziskind, in Melbourne, Florida really help?
Yes! Notably, sexual dysfunctions and sex challenges can come with a lot of emotional charge. Couples who try to talk about sexual dysfunctions with friends and family are often not helped. Cultural sexual shame, lack of education, and sexual guilt are not helpful. This tends to make sexual challenges in a relationship worse due to the sensitive nature of sex issues. There is a lack of sexual education out there as a whole. Therefore, working with a marriage therapist and sex, intimacy and specialist in Melbourne, Florida is more effective. When couples are having sex and intimacy issues, working with a licensed marriage therapist is absolutely essential.
How can sexual challenges develop in a marriage?
People get feel sexually rejected, and unwanted. Partners may have differences in desire or sexual libido. Therefore, one person feels a deep sense of rejection if their partner doesn’t want to have sex with them. Or, couples may stop having sexual experiences all together and stop being intimate.
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When couples stop having sex, there’s usually external stressors like maybe their health or financial issues.
Or, there’s housing issues, in-law issues, or child care and parenting stress. As well, there are always emotional stressors occurring for both people when sex decreases. Unfortunately, there becomes an overall lack of sexual experiences and sexual pleasure. So, the less humans have sex, the more we start to feel less sex is normal. To note, sexual rejection is a powerful and painful emotions when you want to be sexual. Wisdom Within Counseling specializes in helping couples who face sexual rejection and want a more passionate, beautiful, meaningful sex life.
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What happens when partners are dealing with sexual rejection and loneliness?
Partners who deal with sexual rejection in silence may try to numb out their sexual desire in unhealthy ways. Sexual rejection can lead to pornography addiction and other addictions. For instance, sexual rejection could be something simple like your partner pulling away from you. In relationships where partners have differences in sexual drives, it is common for a partner to have sexual insecurities. Couples therapy can help partners uncover what is underneath their insecure emotions. Sometimes, insecurity and jealousy can stem from a past relationship or when things were not so good.
When there is a disconnection and sex challenges in a marriage, partners may use numbing behaviors to cope.
Numbing behaviors like workaholism or working too much can create emotional distance in your relationship. As well, partners with sexual challenges may begin spending more time at work. Sexual partners may no longer find sex pleasurable, and instead a chore. Distant couples start spending more time with work friends over their significant other. Also, couples therapists may see things like pornography addiction or increased pornography use. Sexual needs, sexual desires, and sexual dreams fade sadly to the background.
Why is it important to work with a sex, intimacy and marriage therapist in Melbourne, Florida?
In unhealthy ways, any emotions stuffed away lead to self-sabotaging behaviors. For instance, couples therapists see partners dealing with painful emotions through alcohol use. Due to not knowing how to talk about sex, couples may start to numb their emotions. From sex, intimacy and marriage therapy in Melbourne, Florida, couples can start to reconnect. From there, negative coping behaviors may decrease when their sex and intimacy issues improve. Essentially, couples can understand why they are numbing out may be rooted in anxiety or sexual rejection.
Can sex, intimacy and marriage therapy in Melbourne, Florida help me and my partner reconnect?
Absolutely! You can find alternatives to cope in healthy ways. Often, these numbing behaviors can actually damage your intimate relationship further. Sex, intimacy and marriage therapy in Melbourne, Florida helps you get on the same page again. Katie Ziskind and the team of therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling specialize in helping couples share emotions instead of avoiding sexual topics. Marriage counseling can help make heated, intense conversations a little bit calmer and easier.
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Meeting with a couples therapist at Wisdom Within Counseling can help bring sexual playfulness.
Sex, intimacy and marriage therapy in Melbourne, Florida help improve emotional intimacy. Overall, counseling can encourage you to start sharing emotions again. A lot of couples get distant because they’re no longer talking about what feels good in the bedroom. Marriage therapy helps you prioritize sexual pleasure as an important aspect of married life. Your therapist can normalize that sometimes sex is hard or a difficult thing. As well, we offer couples art, yoga, music, and outdoor walking therapies to develop deeper love for one another. In intimacy counseling, you get to have a present moment experience while talking about sexual dysfunction and sexuality.
Talking about sex and intimacy in couples therapy
Have you experienced a drop or decrease in intimacy or sex?
Let’s define intimacy. Intimacy skills build a safe marriage. To note, sex and intimacy skills do need to lead to sexual intercourse. Instead, intimacy can be anything like holding hands and making out to rubbing each other’s backs. Intimacy can be a relaxing foot massage or even making prolonged eye contact with a playful smile. As well, sex and intimacy skills are not only typically physical act of sexual penetration or intercourse. Rather, intimacy skills in marriage counseling foster emotional safety and build playfulness. Intimacy and sex life.
What are other common sexual challenges?
One person might start to feel like every time their partner touches them, they just want to have sex. They feel anxiety around sex. Maybe, you’re a person that really wants to just feel a long hug or have your partner hold your hand. Increasing sensual, non-sexual oriented touches builds safety for a better sex life. There is a timing and foreplay problem around initiating sex. One person may be fully ready to go and the other person is not even warmed up yet. Perhaps, you want more foreplay, but your romantic partner just smacks your butt or grabs your body.
Couples counseling helps couples share about sexual anxiety, needs, and supports proper sexual timing
Couples therapy can be a safe place to share and express if and when you start to feel overwhelmed, like you have to perform sexually. As well, if one person is ready for sex and the other is not, anxiety impacts sexual pleasure. One person may feel internal pressure and anxiety that they have to please their partner. Essentially, sexual anxiety can take a person away from feeling sexual pleasure as there becomes an agenda. Couples therapy in Melbourne, Florida is about removing sexual pressure and overcoming anxiety. Any type of a sexual agenda can lead to sexual anxiety and via versa.
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Sex, intimacy and marriage therapy in Melbourne, Florida supports awareness around foreplay.
The female body needs 45-90 minutes to feel sexually arousal to get in the mood. Commonly, couples do not understand how female sexual anatomy works. So, couples counseling can include sexual education and normalize needs for foreplay. Building suspense, mystery, teasing, edging, and increasing foreplay can help. You and your intimacy counselor at Wisdom Within can talk about sensate and sensual touch. As well, you can have a safe place to increase non sexual play to build safety, that promotes safe sexual exploration.
When touch is too rough or feels intense, sexual challenges can occur
As well, partners may face sexual challenges when the type of touch their partner is using is maybe too rough or high intensity. Understanding how deeply your partner likes touch is key in sex, intimacy and marriage therapy in Melbourne, Florida. So, working with a marital therapist can help figure out goals to overcome these sexual and intimate challenges.
How can working with a Space Coast of Florida intimacy therapist be a positive thing for my marriage?
Working with a marital and intimacy therapist can be a great thing. You can start to talk about the type of touch that feels good for you. What areas of your body you like touched? Some people don’t like certain areas touched. Maybe there was trauma around that area from childhood. You can start to talk about the pressure of touch you like, different smells, and sex toys. For instance, using coconut oil can create a positive scent for some people and not for others. Certain types of lubricant silicone verses oil can make a difference in your sexual experience. Couples need professional help to build a new intimate experience together.
Intimacy and marriage counseling can include the use of lubricants, sex toys, and vibrators to improve your sex life.
Couples counseling in Melbourne, Florida can bring your sex life back into full swing and make it a priority again.
How do couples with a healthy sexual life make sex a priority?
They schedule it in and make it important. So, you might need to leave work an hour early. You might need to set your alarm one hour early in the morning. Or, you might need to touch yourself sexually to get yourself motivated and in a sexual mood. Couples counseling can help reignite pleasurable sexual thoughts. Sexual thoughts help in bringing this sexy part of your relationship back to the forefront.
What is the purpose of going to sex, intimacy and marriage therapy in Melbourne, Florida with Katie Ziskind?
We work together to bring about these sexy, romantic sides of yourself. Often, due to sexual rejection or emotional pain, humans shut down sexual urges. Instead, intimacy therapy is about giving yourself permission to really express your sexuality with your partner. There is often cultural shame and religious shame that needs to be talked about. Develop sexual confidence never hurts a romantic relationship wither. Even if you are shy at first, developing sexual confidence can let your partner know that you love them without it needing touch to lead to sex. Sexual confidence and knowing yourself sexually are keys in a healthy sex life. Understanding your partner’s sexual needs that can help reassure your spouse that you genuinely want to express your love.
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Sexual foreplay is often something that’s missing from 99% of sexually dysfunctional and sexually challenged couples.
What is foreplay? Well, foreplay is this sensual, teasing, hot, sexy experience where you can play around. You can kind of draw out the suspense, and add an element of mystery. As well, you both be silly and romantic, and make some sexual innuendos.
You can make sexual jokes with each other. Improving foreplay and building that into a sexual experience can make it more pleasure for a female too. Foreplay helps a female become sexually aroused and increases vaginal wetness.
Couples counseling in Melbourne, Florida is a really positive healthy way to improve sexual connection in your marriage. Foreplay also builds to the climax, so you’re building up this mountain to a potential orgasm.
How long is a suspenseful foreplay?
Sometimes, foreplay could be a 45-90 minute experience, couple hours or it can even be a day. Furthermore, you’re really making the most of the foreplay and stretching out and building desire within your partner.
Therefore, marriage counseling can help you ignite that playfulness and spice within yourself first, and then and within your partner. Because building foreplay will actually create safety, you may laugh more together. Foreplay is a huge piece of sexual education to understanding sexual arousal in female.
As well, foreplay is essential to having good sex. Foreplay helps both people feel safe and in sync together.
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Are you looking for sexual help in your marriage or relationship?
When it comes to improving your sex life and your emotional intimacy, Wisdom Within Counseling specializes with couples.
Sex may be falling to the wayside. Your partner may be using pornography in excess. Something’s missing from your sexual connection. When you want to work it out together, that’s where the fun begins. Sex, intimacy and marriage therapy in Melbourne, Florida gives you an opportunity for hope and healing. You can create a magical, positive, whole different sexual experience in couples therapy.
You get a safe place in sex, intimacy and marriage therapy in Melbourne, Florida with Katie Ziskind
As well, we can’t really talk about that with friends, family or even co-workers. In marriage therapy, you get to talk about sex which is often taboo in our culture. So, sexual challenges are a great topic to bring to couples therapy.
Relationship therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling helps couples rebuild the spice in their marriage.
And oftentimes, couples have fears, worries, emotions, losses, rejection that comes up. The team of marriage and family therapists give you a safe place to digest emotions. You can leave couples therapy feeling mindful, peaceful, playful, silly, and romantic.
BDSM desires
Wisdom Within Counseling is kink friendly and affirming to the BDSM community. Consent is a huge part of playing with BDSM. BDSM and kink can lead to sexual pleasure, suspense, mystery, and playfulness for many couples. Many times, partners want to explore BDSM and their partner has fears. As well, 60 percent of women and 70 percent of men have sexual fantasies of dominating someone sexually. For long term couples, exploring BDSM can provide a new, sexually pleasurable experience. For some people, pain can erotic stimulus. Feeling even a small level of pain can lead to an adrenaline rush and a high feeling. To note, there may be fears about sharing a BDSM lifestyle with a non affirming therapist.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, we believe consensual BDSM can be a healthy form of sexual expression and sexual pleasure.
BDSM is a normal part of the sexual spectrum. However, society and culture tend to show inaccurate examples of BDSM culture. As well, these BDSM inaccuracies create shame and self-doubt for those within the BDSM community. Couples who take part in BDSM may also be dealing with with guilt, shame, and fear of others finding out due to shame within our culture.
How do BDSM desires play a role in sex, intimacy and marriage therapy in Melbourne, Florida?
If you are interested in trying BDSM, but your partner does not, couples therapy can be of assistance. As well, this process of coming out to yourself first is key. People can learn to let go of judgement and practice self-acceptance. It can be painful to be rejected sexually by your partner when you share a BDSM desire. Sex, intimacy and marriage therapy in Melbourne, Florida helps couples explore and overcome BDSM identifies and roles. Intimacy therapy can be a safe place to gain clarity around sexual interests, sex toys, sexual sensations, or kinky power dynamics. Each person has kinks that they feel are most sexually satisfying. Talking about sexual fantasies can be a part of BDSM.
BDSM kink poly positive couples counseling in Florida
People may want counseling when there is a fear of not being able to find partners who share BDSM desires and kink interests. Even when written consensual agreements are in place, partners may have a variety of emotions after a BDSM scene or BDSM experience. Guilt, anxiety, and shame may come up around trying new things. BDSM friendly couples counseling can help you better understand partner’s sexual boundaries. You partner can talk about what they are okay with and what is off limits. These specifics can be written down to ensure partners are not crossing any sexual boundaries with BDSM.
Wisdom Within Counseling in Melbourne, Florida strives to be a non-judgmental place for all couples.
BDSM couples can explore sexuality without being told the root cause of problems is their BDSM lifestyle or that they should change. At Wisdom Within Counseling, you do not need to worry about feeling marginalized, judged, stigmatized or having your kink or BDSM desires pathologized.
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If you’re struggling with sex or intimacy, just know that you’re not alone.
Seeking couples therapy in Melbourne, Florida is a sign of collaboration and strength. You can learn to love one another like you’re each other’s best friend. As well, you can support one another as confident partners. Talking about sex can start to feel easy and connecting. Sex, intimacy, and marriage therapy in Melbourne, Florida can help you know what your partner needs and wants sexually.
If you’re a couple in distress, Katie Ziskind, licensed marriage and family therapist, and her team would love to help you improve your sex life and intimacy.
In general, weekly meeting with a holistic marriage therapist supports couples in diving into these intimate emotional meaningful topics. Sex, intimacy, and marriage therapy in Melbourne, Florida can give your marriage a second chance.
A lot of people tend to find themselves stuck in sexual dysfunctions or challenges.
Sex, intimacy, and marriage therapy in Melbourne, Florida can totally turn things around when both of you are committed. Couples counseling can be a beautiful journey together. Katie Ziskind, the owner of Wisdom Within Counseling, is a Gottman level 2 marriage therapist. As well, Katie Ziskind works in both Florida on the Space Coast and in Connecticut.
In addition to specializing with intimacy in couples counseling, Katie Ziskind is a trauma sensitive yoga therapist, specializing in complex trauma (CPTSD).
Katie Ziskind and her team of marital and family therapists interweave creative, mind-body, holistic creative therapies. For couples, art therapies, yoga therapies, music therapies, and walking therapies in nature improve bonding. Holistic, creative, somatic, mind body therapies provide alternates for connection beyond words. Painting and art is a language beyond anything words can offer.
Wisdom Within Counseling offers marriage and family therapy in Florida and Connecticut.
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If traditional sitting and talking has not worked well, Wisdom Within Counseling in Melbourne, Florida offers holistic, creative, somatic, mind body therapies outlets for couples.
These mind-body, holistic therapies help couples reignite passion. From mind-body therapies like being outside in nature, or doing a painting, couples can laugh together again from an adventure mindset. Holistic, creative, somatic, mind body therapies support recovering from trauma and complex PTSD in couples work together.
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We specializes with couples struggling with sexual anxiety, sexual dysfunction, and intimacy issues.
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