First off, the benefits of marriage and couple hood are many. Often, happy couples with a good sex life experience better health. On that note, couples who have a healthy sex life report higher level of happiness. Having a pleasurable, passionate sex life can even increase your life span. However, stressors of raising the next generation together can create challenges. More over, marriage, sex and intimacy therapy in Melbourne, Florida support you in overcoming sexual issues. Additionally, you can learn to let go of shame, guilt, fear, and anger. More so, sexual dysfunction can lead to resentment, lack of trust, communication problems, criticisms, and irritability.
What are sexual problems couples face?
As well, sexual dysfunction, premature ejaculation, or orgasming issues can lead to sex issues. To note, LGBTQIA+ and same sex couples may face sexual issues too.
And, coupes of any nationality, race, or ethnicity can experience intimacy and sexual problems. For many, physically being intimate can bring up bring emotions like fear or anger. At times, fear of rejection is big. Additionally, difficulty communicating about sex leads to insecurity and self-doubt. Plus, body image issues can create confidence problems that impact sex.
Lacking confidence in the bedroom can lead to a sexless relationship.
At times, partners need sexual education on erogenous zones. Notably, giving and receiving pleasure is not always easy. Therefore, sex and intimacy therapy in Melbourne, Florida can support couples dealing with many sex struggles.
Can I talk about sex in marriage and intimacy therapy in Melbourne, Florida?
Your relationship and marriage therapist in Brevard County Florida can talk with you about sexual dysfunction. For instance, sexual dysfunction can include erection, ejaculation, lubrication and orgasm.
You can have a safe place to get to know your body and build a passionate, playful romance.
Lack or loss of sexual desire, premature ejaculation, issues with vaginal wetness, and excessive sexual desire are all parts of intimacy counseling. In females, poor vaginal lubrication can create a lack of sexual enjoyment.
Essentially, it can help to bring your sexual concerns to therapy. Often, couples find that emotional and physical issues impact their sexual relationship.
Maybe, at one time, you enjoyed sex, but now it seems far off in the distance. Or, it feels like being intimate will be shot down by your partner. To add, you can talk about sexual aversion or lack of sexual enjoyment to marriage counseling.
To begin, click the button below to book a phone consult for marriage, sex and intimacy therapy in Melbourne, Florida.
What contributes to sexual problems and sexual dysfunctions?
The wedded bliss, social media photos, and the honeymoons have set couples up for failure.
Notably, watching pornography can lead to unrealistic standards for sexual experiences. Often, porn creates idealization of sex. To add, tik toks, social media, and the media cause many couples to worry whether they can compete.
As well, couples may feel competitive and wonder if they are matching up to what the media portrays as normal. Notably, any inner judgment gets in the way of a pleasure, sensual, intimate experience. At Wisdom Within Counseling, you can talk about the factors that influence sexual desire and enjoyment.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, you can have a safe place to talk about sexual desire, lubrication, premature ejaculation, pleasure, and sex.
Furthermore, for immigrant couples, cultural expectations state that the young couple should live with the extended family. Living with extended family may be supportive, but can create privacy concerns for intimacy. There may also be religious or cultural shame for desiring sexual expression. Many people struggle with religious cultural shame for enjoying sexual releases. Notably, struct religious upbringings can create shame for wanting sexual pleasure.
From therapy, you can develop realistic expectations. And, you can learn how to manage stress and communicate together as a couple.
To begin, click the button below to book a phone consult for marriage, sex and intimacy therapy in Melbourne, Florida.
How can sex and intimacy therapy in Melbourne, Florida improve desire?
There are a lot of cultural issues that set couples up for challenges in the bedroom. Overall, stress from the global coronavirus pandemic has been ongoing. To add, career and job challenges with their jobs and fretting about aging, elderly parents dampen sex life. As well, just thinking about sex makes you feel lot of emotions.
In what ways can thinking about orgasming or sex cause problems?
Well, couples often have an end goal in mind. And, it takes away the playfulness and romance when there is an end goal in mind. Also, the goal of sex and intimacy therapy in Melbourne, Florida is to help take the focus off sex. Instead, marriage counseling helps couples learn about one another’s desires, love needs, and pleasurable areas.
In time, couples stop focusing so much on anxiety and refocus on pleasure. Essentially, you can talk about intimate touch and what touch helps you feel open. From counseling in Brevard County Florida, you can improve your communication around sex.
Often, our culture puts too much emphasis on the end product of sex and intercourse.
Overall, couples therapy can be a safe place to talk about the feelings that come from making out or kissing. Plus, back rubs, foot massages, head rubs, and hand holding are forms of sensate touch.
Over time, distant couples tend to lose touch with kissing and stop making out. So, therapy can be a place to gain more positive experiences. Further, sex and intimacy therapy in Melbourne, Florida supports mindful experiencing and sensate touch.
Couples Can Improve Communication Through Therapy
Notably, the best way to maintain a healthy relationship is to continue to communicate in healthy ways. We don’t learn how to communicate intense emotions like rejection or fear in healthy ways. On that note, couples get stuck criticizing one another’s sexual performance. Maybe, your partner has high sexual needs or a high sex drive. As well, it might feel overwhelming and a lot of pressure to sexually satisfy them. Therefore, marriage and intimacy therapy helps couples build a healthy, meaningful, intimate sex life.
Unfortunately, couples with high and low sex drives are more at risk for criticism.
Any sexual criticism can be damaging. Commonly, within negative sexual experiences are elements of pervasive hostility. Anger, tension, and sexual frustration can tear apart couples. As well, when couples experience poor communication, this can create a lack of trust. Overall, sex and intimacy counseling in Brevard County Florida can help couples who have disparate levels of sexual desire.
To begin, click the button below to book a phone consult for marriage, sex and intimacy therapy in Melbourne, Florida.
Try communicating through humor and be genuine
Often, couples who frequently quarrel may need help from a couples therapist to laugh and be playful. As well, communication is the key to solving emotional conflicts and sexual problems. In fact, sex and intimacy therapy in Melbourne, Florida can help couples talk about issues in a calm and flexible manner.
Sex and intimacy therapy in Melbourne, Florida promotes a passionate, playful, and good sexual relationship.
Couples can use counseling to find better ways of sharing jealousy, fear, worry, and anger. So, between now and your counseling session, make a pact to try and find the humor instead of the stress in a frustrating situation. Then, this private-joke communication will bond you together in a positive way. When you can, share as many light moments about good past sexual experiences together.
Couples Can Seek Counseling
Now, for couples who feel they are just not on the same page sexually, sex and intimacy therapy in Melbourne, Florida can help.
Additionally, your marriage and intimacy therapist can help you in getting through to each other. Often, couples who struggle with sex issues do not hear each other well. Likewise, hearing one another is a skill your therapist can help with.
From sex and marriage therapy in Brevard County Florida, you can gain tools for sexual enjoyment.
As well, understanding how sexual problems impact both partners emotionally and physically supports healing. In general, working with a third party who is trained in marital and intimacy therapy can help. Furthermore, in Melbourne, Florida, there are not many therapists who specialize with couples.
Couples Taking the First Step
When couples with the best of intentions of having a healthy sex life may struggle. As well, if you feel being misunderstood, a counselor can help. Also, you can learn positive ways to handle frustration and get unstuck in your patterns.
Couples counseling can uncover each partner’s underlying emotional needs.
From there, your couples therapist can help you learn to respond in a supportive way that enhances pleasure. You can gain a toolbox of skills for better, more loving communication.
To begin, click the button below to book a phone consult for marriage, sex and intimacy therapy in Melbourne, Florida.
For example, for couples can do something more than sitting on an office couch and talking. On that note, holistic counseling sessions include creative art, yoga, music, and even walks outside by the Niantic Bay.
Couples in a High-Conflict Situation
Also, counseling can also help build healthy communication for couples involved in domestic abuse situations. They can work with a trauma bonding, PTSD therapist who can help them learn about, admit and recognize their feelings.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, we often work with complex trauma. And, we help couples start processing those feelings in order to change a toxic relationship.
Couples Can Conquer Sex Issues
Amidst so much uncertainty, couples can create support and stability int their sex life. To add, try video counseling while tending to your mental health. Counselors are available for in-person sessions. Commonly, couples use teletherapy to help you build healthy communication skills. Essentially, couples therapy provides you with positive, emotional experiences as a couple.
Katie Ziskind and the team at Wisdom Within Counseling offer support in Central Florida. As well, they support couples in Brevard County, Melbourne, Melbourne Beach, Indialantic, Suntree, Viera, and Cocoa Beach.
To begin, click the button below to book a phone consult for marriage, sex and intimacy therapy in Melbourne, Florida.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, you get a safe place to talk about sexual expression.
And, when you don’t get a sexual release, the resentment and anger that arises. As well, you can share feelings about anger, constant hostility, and jealousy. Sex and intimacy therapy in Melbourne, Florida can help with lack of sexual knowledge or experience. You can get education about the male and female bodies and pleasure centers.
As well, couples therapy helps when you experience difficulty in communicating about sex.
For some couples, talking about sex brings about anger, regret, sadness, or tearfulness. Essentially, marriage and intimacy therapy in Brevard County Florida can remedy sexual dysfunction. If you or your partner have experiences of sexual trauma or unwanted touch, sex can be emotional.
Sex and intimacy therapy in Melbourne, Florida can help couples create trust.
Couples can define and stick to firm boundaries to maintain a healthy sex life. Essentially, you can a safe place to stay playful. And, you can figure out how to bring out the sexy side of yourself.
Prioritizing sex and pleasure are benefits of Brevard County Florida intimacy counseling.
In addition, intimacy therapy can also help couples know how to artfully seize an opportunity to be passionate. Marriage counseling supports techniques for different levels of sexual desire. Lastly, sex and intimacy therapy along the Space Coast in Florida can debunk unrealistic expectations of sex due to porn use.
