Sex therapy can help with improving mood and decreasing anxiety around sexual performance. As well, relationship and couples therapy helps with enhancing emotional and sexual communication and connection. A lot of times, couples don’t really understand what the other person wants or needs in the bedroom where to feel loved. You can have a safe place to talk about your sexual fantasies and your desires. Maybe, you have a desire, fantasy, or want to feel empowerment around sex. Well, sex positive therapy in Southeastern Connecticut can give you a safe space to talk. Or, you want to open your relationship safely, with consent. Maybe, you want to discuss your gender fluid feelings with your spouse for the first time.
Compulsive sexual behaviors affect not only the person but their spouse.
Sometimes, compulsive sexual behaviors can create distance in a marriage because one partner feels like the other partner is cheating even when they are masturbating. Maybe, your spouse has a sexual addiction and this worries you. As well, talking about a compulsive porn addiction can be a part of sex positive therapy in Southeastern Connecticut. Sex therapy can help you discuss addiction, codependency, porn, and fear and guilt when they arise.
Talk about performance anxiety sex positive therapy in Southeastern Connecticut
Frequently, couples experience sexual dysfunction due to mismatches in sexual drive and libido. Sometimes, frustration and feeling unwanted can keep couples stuck. Additionally, Couples therapy can help you establish an open relationship, if desired. As well, sex positive therapy in Southeastern Connecticut can help you build a line of communication versus getting angry or panic. For some, performance anxiety can make sex boring or less playful. As well, performance anxiety around sex can be from being insecure in the bedroom.
Talking about sex can be hard, so many couples avoid it all together.
But, this leaves a part of the relationship missing. Through couples therapy, you can feel confident and secure talking about sexuality and sex. Maybe, you feel less experienced than your spouse or partner. Or, maybe you want to try something new, but you don’t know how to ask for it. Other times, performance anxiety can be due to location or environment. Commonly, sex therapy includes talking about sexual issues like erectile dysfunction. As well, sex positive therapy in Southeastern Connecticut promotes a healthy sex life!
How does sex positive therapy work?
In sex therapy, we can work with one partner individually or see both as a couple. Sometimes, individual therapy helps with uncovering trauma. Is there a high level of anxiety, anger, and intense emotion? Often, high conflict couples deeply want closeness, but they are stuck. At Wisdom Within Counseling, we understand that couples fight because they want love. But, couples are stuck in a negative feedback loop.
Without professional support from a marital therapist, couples often say hurtful things they regret later.
As well, these hurtful comments can make pleasure very challenging to get back. Now, your therapist can help you know hoe to share intense feelings about sex in health, calm ways. So, working with a high conflict couples therapist can help you reconnect in a positive cycle of love. And, the high conflict couples therapy cycle feels so hurtful and frustrating. Our counselors specialize in trauma therapy for couples. At Wisdom Within Counseling, we offer a non-judge mental approach when it comes to talking about sex positive therapy and sexual encounters.
Overcome different sexual dysfunctions through sex therapy.
As well, you can learn to build and create a nurturing for mindfulness in the bedroom. With your sex positive therapist you can talk about stimulation, touch, pressure, and music. Essentially, couples don’t ever get to take a class on, “how to stay in love.” So, think of sex positive therapy in Southeastern Connecticut as a course in emotional closeness. Each week, you can meet with your therapist to learn more about your body and sex. During couples sex therapy, your therapist will help by talking about body language. In general, body language plays a huge role in disconnection. As well, your sex therapist can guide you in the right direction if the conversation seems to go in a hostile direction.
Couples therapy can help your relationship because you can talk about sexual exercises and desires.
Just like you go to the gym and work your leg muscles, sexual communication in sexual exercises can eliminate sexual boredom. Remember, underneath sex different meanings for different people. So, this is where many sexual conflict arise. For one, one might equate sex to love. Another person might just think of sex as a drug or a feel-good experience versus meaning love. So, your sex therapist can help you and your spouse if you have different meanings of sex in love. Often, these meanings are rooted in childhood experiences. Lastly, your therapist can help connect childhood dysfunctional patterns to challenges in your current relationship. This allows you to live in the present, feel emotionally connected, and feel close.
Infidelity therapy
Maybe, you have a high libido, but your spouse has a low libido. We help couples build playfulness and increase foreplay. Unfortunately, when one couple desires touch and the other doesn’t, it can lead to infidelity. If you want to heal after a recent affair or betrayal, our team of therapists specialize in affair recovery. Often, couples think they can manage the affair recovery on their own. However, trust issues are often at the root of sexual challenges.
Wisdom Within Counseling in East Lyme, Connecticut offers sex therapy to help men overcome toxic masculinity.
The therapist help women step out of stereotypical gender roles too. In sex positive therapy in Southeastern Connecticut, you have a safe place to explore your body and gender. You can talk about sex and pleasure in positive ways with out fear of judgment. Maybe, you want to come out to your spouse as non-binary, bigender, or two spirited. Or, you want to ask for more kink in your sex life. As well, you have a safe place to talk about consent, kink or BDSM in a safe and healthy way.
Furthermore, sex positive therapy encourages sexual exploration as a wonderful and beautiful part of a healthy life. Sometimes, infidelity, the libido, and sexual for them all play a role in relationship dissatisfaction.
