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What can you expect from sex
therapy?
Sex therapy is superior to other forms of
therapy for sexual problems because sex therapists have specific training in
sexual function and dysfunction. In your sessions you will have the opportunity to
talk openly about your most personal problems and receive specific suggestions
about how to solve them.
What will happen in your
sessions?
The first few sessions are spent getting
to know you and understanding your problem. You will explore your psycho-social
background and your family dynamics. Special emphasis will be placed on your
sexual history, including how you learned about sexuality, and how you developed your sexual values and your sexual
behaviors to date. The trained therapist, with your input, will develop an
appropriate diagnosis and treatment plan.
Typically, treatment begins using a behavioral
model (with special exercises given at the end of each session to be practiced
at home by yourself or with your partner). Treatment is usually short-term.
However, when necessary, the therapist will work with you to resolve long-term
underlying issues which may inhibit free expression of sexuality.
What happens in regular therapy?
- Individual Therapy: Individual therapy
involves one-to-one interaction with a trained
therapist. Typically, a client meets with a therapist
once a week until the client feels satisfied. Nearly
everyone can benefit from individual therapy. Individual
therapy can help people gain insight about themselves
and discover the tools they need to achieve their own
goals. For example, people often seek therapy because
they feel depressed, experience panic attacks, have
trouble dating, feel lonely, or feel fat but are unable
to maintain a diet or workout routine. Individual
therapy can help clients to develop healthy patterns and
routines to cope with life’s ongoing life challenges.
- Couples Therapy & Marriage Counseling: Couples therapy
/ Marriage counseling involves
two-to-one interaction with a trained therapist. In
couples therapy, the two people in a relationship
typically meet weekly with a therapist. Couples therapy
is appropriate for all persons in relationships. Many
people seek couples therapy to save a failing
relationship or to work through a specific issue. Others
seek couples therapy to prepare for marriage, or to gain
clarity about their vulnerabilities as a couple.
Sometimes one or both partners pursue individual therapy
concurrently – in addition to couples therapy – to
address individual issues interfering with the
relationship. Couples therapy can strengthen the bond
between partners.
- Family Therapy: Family therapy typically
involves one therapist meeting with an entire family (or
several family members) to address issues that impact
the whole family. Family therapy is a useful modality to
help strengthen the ways in which family members relate
to one another. Frequently, parents seek out family
therapy when they are not getting along with their
children, their kids are ‘out of control’, or there is
immense sibling rivalry. Other times, family therapy is
sought when a family’s capacity to handle life’s
stressors is diminished due to difficult transitions,
such as divorce, the loss of a job, the return of a
parent to the workplace, a death in the family, or the
creation of a blended family.
When seeking therapy it is always preferable to
choose a therapist who has experience in helping clients
with similar issues. For example, while most therapists
have some knowledge about sexuality issues, sexual
problems are best managed by a therapist who
concentrates on sexual function/dysfunction issues and
has received specialized training in these areas.
Similarly, someone seeking help for an eating disorder
is best helped by a therapist who specializes in eating
disorders. For a better understanding of our therapists’
specialties, please refer to our biographies and / or
read the self help tips written by each therapist.
Therapy Tips
(TT)
- How to Choose a Therapist,
written by Tracy L. Wood, M.Ed., LMFT
- How to Get the Most out of Individual Therapy,
written by Tracy L.
Wood, M.Ed., LMFT
- How to Get the Most out of Couples Therapy,
written
by Tracy L. Wood, M.Ed., LMFT
- Online therapy OT
- If you are still gathering information about your
particular sexual function / dysfunction, please check out our
sex tips. We have spent a lot of time trying to put
together some useful information. If it is still not enough, we would
like to suggest some self help books.
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