Support areas
We offer relationship sex therapy and sex coaching. Here are some of main areas we work with:
Relationship Sex Therapy
We offer relationship therapy to help couples and people in open or non monogamous relationships to understand and address barriers that get in the way of a satisfying sex life and to build tools and skills to be better communicators, learn how to touch, practice consent, rethink or expand opportunities for foreplay and sex, works through conflict and break old patterns keeping you stuck.
Common topics people in relationships might explore in a session:
What to do when one partner has lower libido
Learning accurate sexual desire education and skills
Explore different ways to initiate sex and intimacy
Feeling like you’ve lost the spark and how to cultivate desire for sex again
Coping with sexual rejection
Learning how to say no without fear of hurting feelings
Creating a healthier, more sustainable relationship with sex and intimacy
How to better communicate about sex, pleasure and intimacy
How to support a partner with trauma, fear or anxiety around sex
Learning how to have difficult conversations
Practising giving and receiving feedback
Working through resentment and hurt in your relationship
Working to address unwanted sexual pain that gets in the way of sex and pleasure
Understanding and addressing inability to orgasm, ejaculation issues or erectile difficulties
Learning how to communicate about what you want and don’t want when it comes to pleasurable satisfying sex
Understanding avoidance of sex and intimacy and working towards creating more safety and choice
Education, skills and tools to explore kink and BDSM
Considering, exploring and creating agreements for non monogamy or open relationships
Navigating different access needs between neurodivergent partners or neurodivergent and neurotypical partners
Exploring grief, loss and big changes in your relationship
Navigating transitions, gender identity and sexuality diversity in a relationship
Rebuilding emotional and physical closeness, trust and safety to express what you want, what you think and how you feel
How is our approach to relationship sex therapy different to couples counselling?
Unlike general couples counselling, we recognise that sex, intimacy and pleasure are important topics that people in relationships want to discuss. We bring sex to the forefront and our practitioners are highly skilled at creating an affirming, safe and non judgemental environment to talk about how you feel, what you think and what you want when it comes to what kind of sex you want in your relationship.
We provide a structured space and offer supportive guidance, active coaching and collaboration so that you don’t spend your sessions rehashing an old fight or falling into old patterns. Instead, our relationship sessions are an opportunity to learn more about your self, your partner/s and build skills to do things different in your relationship that directly benefit and support your sex life together, while still respecting you as individuals that may have different desires and experiences.
Our work draws on several approaches:
The Developmental Model - this approach supports partners to manage conflict to learn and be coached by our practitioner’s to express their individual wants, boundaries, thoughts and feelings while also being able to be present and grounded while allowing their partners to express their wants, limits, thoughts and feelings, even if they are hard to hear.
Betty Martin, creator of the Wheel of Consent to support partners to practice the complexities of consent, touch and communication.
Somatic Sex Coaching, anatomy education and sexual touch skills
Differences as learning opportunities - because there really is no “normal” when it comes relationships, we support and guide you to cultivate the kind of relationship you want, including learning about how to co-exist and find pleasure and satisfaction even when differences are present.