Psychosexual Therapy
Psychosexual therapy (also known as sex therapy) is a type of talk-based therapy that focuses on sexual health and wellbeing.
For some people, this can mean working on improving their relationship to sex and desire. For other people, it can mean working on emotional wellbeing (either within themselves or in their relationship).
And some people come to sex therapy because they are experiencing a physical issue that they need help with - things like erectile dysfunction, painful sex, rapid ejaculation, inability to orgasm and vaginismus can all be worked on in sex therapy.
I work with all of these issues in an integrative way - this means I use a range of different therapeutic approaches including Internal Family Systems (IFS), somatic therapy, psychoeducation, Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT), existential therapy and person-centred therapy to create a bespoke treatment plan for you and your goals for therapy.
How Sex Therapy Can Help You
If you are struggling with your relationship to sex, arousal, desire, or to your body generally, psychosexual therapy can often be very helpful. Below are some of the issues that I work with as a sex therapist:
Issues Around Orgasm
Erectile disorders including erectile dysfunction
Inability to orgasm (anorgasmia)
Rapid (premature) ejaculation
Delayed ejaculation
Retarded (inhibited) ejaculation
Issues Around Desire
Differences in sexual desire in relationship
Changes in sexual desire and arousal after life changes
Loss / lack of sexual desire or arousal
Fear of intimacy
Out of control sexual behaviour (often called porn or sex addiction), both for those affected by it and their partners
Issues Around Body
Inability to have penetrative sex (vaginismus)
Painful sex (dyspareunia)
Vulvodynia
Body confidence and self-image issues