Sex, Sexuality & Gender

Counselling and Psychotherapy

Sex and Intimacy Issues

Sex forms an focal point of many powerful forces in human life. This is an area fraught with potential difficulties owing to the intricacies that are at play. Perhaps in no other area of life is the potential for pleasure and pain, desire and fear, pride and shame, or fulfilment and heartbreak so finely balanced.

While Freud's first great challenge to Western thinking was that of the unconscious, his second was the pervasive influence of the sexual drive (libido) on our lives. While this scandalised and shocked Victorian thinking, today it hardly raises an eyebrow. Yet while we can surf the net and get any amount of information on virtually any aspect of sexuality the topics of sex and intimacy continue to be a difficult for many to talk about and make sense of.

Sexual issues include:

• Sexual addictions
• Troubling sexual thoughts, feelings, or behaviours
• Guilt or shame
• Fears or inhibitions
• Sexual orientation concerns
• Asexuality
• Gender identity concerns
• Difficulties with arousal, intercourse or orgasm
• Sexual abuse (see separate page)

Relationship issues include:

• Fear of intimacy or commitment
• Loss of sexual desire, intimacy or interest
• Affairs & infidelity
• Prostitute use
• Changes after birth of children
• Compatibility problems

Therapy offers an accepting non judgemental space to explore thoughts and feelings and find acceptance and resolution on these complex issues for both individuals and couples.

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All our therapists address sex, sexuality and intimacy concerns and most offer couples counselling.