Couples Sex Therapy in Los Angeles & Marriage Counseling

Couples sex therapy explores the fact that people are often fearful and may doubt if they can risk choosing their partner and making themselves emotionally vulnerable. Sex therapy for couples addresses problems with arousal, genital functioning and differences in desire for sex, all of which can have a couple feeling wounded and stuck.

In sexual-marital therapy, the focus is on repairing the hurts and resentments of the past, family-of-origin traumas, and/or unresolved childhood issues all of which can shape a relationship and impact the couple. If you and your partner choose Couples therapy in Los Angeles, or anywhere else, it will require the willingness to confront oneself, to disclose the truth about thoughts and feelings, and to tolerate anxieties without expecting partner validation or soothing, and learning to soothe oneself. All of this is in service of becoming more vulnerable in order to create a deep, satisfying, long-lasting connection with your partner.

As the therapy addresses these issues, co-dependent dynamics begin to shift and the couple moves out of a blame and shame cycle. As each person develops a more solid sense of self and becomes clear about whom they are, emotionally honest movement towards a healthy interdependency begins to form thereby creating integrity, self-esteem and sexual desire.

Couples Therapy Near Culver City, Malibu, West Hollywood, Santa Monica, and Beverly Hills

Whether a couple decides to remain together or separate, our marriage counselors in Los Angeles will help each person to have a sexually healthy future.