Sex therapy: breaking taboos, sexual dysfunctions and couples therapy.
Sexual dysfunctions affect a significant proportion of the population: about 40% of women and 30% of men report at least one significant sexual difficulty. Desire, arousal, orgasm disorders or sexual pain: sex therapy offers effective, validated protocols for most of these disorders.
Sex therapy is a specialized therapeutic approach for treating individual and couple sexual difficulties. It combines psychotherapy, sexual education and practical exercises to help people rediscover fulfilling sexuality. This article demystifies the practice and explains whom it addresses.
Couples sex therapy addresses partners facing sexual difficulties affecting their relationship. Discordant desire, sexual routine, infidelity, sexuality after children, intimate communication difficulties: therapeutic work with the couple addresses sexuality in its relational context.