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What Is Sex Therapy?

What is Sex Therapy?

Concerns about your sexuality and sexual health can be overwhelming. Using talk therapy, sex therapy helps you to navigate through any sexual topics in a sex-positive, non-shaming way. Together, the therapist and the client will develop a treatment plan that targets the root of your concern. Sex therapy can be through individual or relational therapy. Topics that can be addressed include sexuality and sexual health concerns regarding identity, medical, emotional, and relationship distress. Look below for a comprehensive list of potential sexual topics.

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Potential Sexual Topics

  • Intimacy

  • Trust Issues

  • Sexual Consent

  • Infidelity / Affairs

  • Erotic Desires & Fantasies

  • Out of Control Sexual Behavior

  • Compulsive Sexual Thoughts

  • Desire Discrepancy in Relationships

  • Low Desire

  • Post Cancer Sexual Dysfunction

  • Kinks

  • Consensual Non-Monogamy / Polyamorous Relationships

  • Sexual Trauma (Rape / Childhood Sexual Abuse / Sexual Assault / Incest)

  • Sexually Transmitted Disease & Infections (STDs & STIs)

  • Sexuality

  • Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity

  • Sexual Health & Wellness

  • Sexual Anxiety

  • Sexual Dysfunction

Male

  • Erectile dysfunction: difficulty getting/maintaining an erection to allow vaginal intercourse

  • Premature ejaculation: a male partner regularly reaches orgasm before they and the partner would prefer

  • Delayed or inhibited ejaculation: slow to be orgasmic or unable to orgasm at all, despite being aroused and erect

  • Inhibited sexual desire: Ongoing or temporary lack of sexual desire where they will not initiate or respond to their partner's desire

Female

  • Inhibited sexual desire: ongoing or temporary lack of sexual desire where one will not initiate or respond to a partner's desire

  • Painful intercourse (dyspareunia): sexual intercourse that involves physical pain

  • Vaginismus: A contraction of the muscles around the vagina during attempted penetration by a finger or penis.

  • Non-orgasmic response: inability to obtain a pleasurable release of sexual tension despite sexual arousal through stimulation by oral sex, anal sex, manual sex (fingering), maturation, and intercourse

  • Sexual aversion: denying or avoiding sexual contact with a partner

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