Boston Sex Therapy

The process of developing, changing, or improving your relationship to your sexuality and sex life with your partner is rarely detached from comfort and knowledge of your own body, needs, wants, desires, and relationship to your partner. In fact, only a fraction of issues in the sexual domain are purely functional or anatomical. In a committed relationship, pleasure and physiological release are only one component of sex. Most people in committed relationships have sex in order to be seen and connect with their significant other.

It is not uncommon that once passion or infatuation die down and couples enter a more domestic routine, preserving a satisfying sex life becomes difficult. Through many couples consciously assert “time or being tired” as the reasons for this change, I’ve discovered that when we dig deeper, issues like fear of deeper intimacy, judgement from one’s partner around unspoken desires, struggles to initiate sex or be receptive to sensual touch due to unresolved resentment, fear of rejection, emotional disconnection, struggles to see view one’s partner sexually due to aging or bodily changes, resistance to scheduling intimacy, and lack of desire are often at the root.

Sex therapy is not it’s own distinct form of therapy (apart from Sensate Focused Therapy) detangled from couples therapy and it draws on a broad understanding of human sexuality, sexual development, and sexual disorders and dysfunction.