Sex Therapy is a type of psychotherapy that addresses mental health issues, emotional concerns affecting a person’s sexual function, drive, and/or desire for intimacy.
Sex therapy is a strategy for the improvement of sexual function and treatment of sexual dysfunction. This includes sexual dysfunctions such as premature ejaculation or delayed ejaculation, erectile dysfunction, lack of sexual interest or arousal, and painful sex (vaginismus and dyspareunia), or problems with aging and other physical issues. This also can include emotional events that interfere or inhibit sexual or relationship trust such as affairs, history of sexual abuse, random sexual partners, pornography, escorts, dating sites, disparate sexual desires, or unrestrained flirting.
Sexual health is an essential part of overall emotional and physical well-being. But if you’re experiencing a sexual problem, the last thing you probably want to do is talk about it. If shame is keeping you from seeking help, know this: 43 percent of women and 31 percent of men report some degree of sexual dysfunction. Sex therapy is designed to get to the bottom of sexual issues, like shame, and reverse them. Indeed, sex therapy is not very different from other forms of psychological counseling. “Sex therapy is a type of psychotherapy that also takes into account possible physical problems. When a couple comes in with a sexual problem, we try to figure out how each of them could be contributing to the issue. We examine behavior, gradually interpret that for them, and come up with solutions,” says Barbara Bartlik, MD, a psychiatrist and sex therapist at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City.
Above all, know this, you are not alone, and we have therapists here that are well trained and comfortable helping you with your sexual concerns.