• Intimacy and sexual communication
  • Sexual fantasies and use of nontraditional sexual interaction
  • Emotional and sexual connection after an affair
  • Open relationships
  • Sex addiction
  • Sexual abuse and other traumatic events
  • Core beliefs and attitudes about sexuality, emotional gridlocks, and prejudices.
  • Cultural and social diversity
  • Self-esteem, self image and feelings of shame
  • Sex and the use of the Internet
  • Sexually Transmitted disease (STD) and a healthy sexuality
  • Differences in sexual desire in a relationship
  • Expectations and changes in different stages of development
  • Gender orientation, sexual orientation
  • Intensives are sessions of 3 hours every week or every other week.
    The modality of the session is based on Encounter-Centered Couples therapy developed by Hedy Schleifer.
    Couples explore, identify and change dysfunctional sexual patterns of behaviors, needs and core beliefs that affect the sexual intimacy in the relationship.
    Every session responds to every couple’s goals and needs. The space is confidential, safe and neutral. According to the clinical experience, intensive sessions are more effective when dealing with crisis, addictions, sexual dysfunctions, lack of sexual communication, and lack of a satisfactory sexual relationship.
    Sex therapy: 60 minutes session, recommended for couples and individuals that will benefit from a psycho-educational approach.

    Sex addiction is a compulsive behavior, where the person doesn’t feel in control . It is a disease of the brain because it affects neurotransmission and interactions within the reward structures of the brain and affects the relationship.

    The therapy helps to:

  • Identify the patterns that maintain a compulsive behavior
  • Identify the process of addiction
  • Learn about the relation between addiction and the brain
  • Identify specific high risk situations that can lead to a relapse
  • Enhance coping skills to deal with triggers
  • Learn to employ urge management techniques.
  • Identify between healthy and non-healthy sexual behaviors
  • Sex therapy with an educational approach has one hour duration.

    These sessions helps to:

  • Identify problems and concerns that affect the relationship
  • Provide psychoeducation about any sexual topic that requires attention
  • Develop a treatment plan to prevent and/or decrease the problem
  • Practice with guided exercises to improve sexual intimacy
  • “when I feel my partner close to me, I have a burning sensation in my vagina”
    “I feel pain during intercourse”
    “I have not being able to achieve an orgasm since I’m sexually active”
    “I don’t have any interest in having sex with my partner”

    If you identify yourself in any of these affirmations, then sex therapy may be helpful for you.

    Some of the most common sexual concerns in women are:

  • Hypoactive Sexual Desire: Loss or reduction of the sexual desire and sexual fantasies
  • Anorgasmia: It’s difficult to achieve an orgasm or never having achieved one with or without partner
  • Vaginismus: involuntary muscle spasm surrounding the vagina resulting in decreased ability to have intercourse
  • Dyspareuna: feeling pain during or after intercourse in the genital area
  • “I cannot get an erection with my partner”
    “I feel I’m going to have an orgasm. But I lose erection”
    “my sexual desire for my partner has decreased”
    “I often ejaculate a few seconds after sexual stimulation or intercourse”
    “I don’t feel sexually connected”

    If you identify yourself with any of these affirmations, sex therapy may be helpful.
    Some of the most common concerns for men are:

  • Hypoactive sexual desire: loss or diminish of sexual desire for your partner
  • Erectile dysfunction: the consistent inability to obtain and/or maintain a firm erection long enough to have intercourse or orgasm
  • Premature ejaculation: persistent difficulty with ejaculatory control before or shortly after penetration, ejaculating sooner than ideally desired
  • Delayed ejaculation: an inability or persistent difficulty in achieving ejaculation and/or orgasm

  • * Please note there is never any nudity or sexual behavior in session. We send clients home with homework exercises, often supplemented with relevant readings and/or videos.