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 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 with one another, preserving a satisfying sex life falls to the wayside. 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 resentments or fear of rejection, emotional disconnection, struggles to see view one’s partner sexually due to aging or bodily changes, and many other reasons are often the root causes.

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 solid and broad understanding of human sexuality, sexual development, sexual disorders and dysfunction, the anatomy and psychology of pleasure and desire, and the intersection between contextual/cultural factors and the mind/body/spirit.