San Francisco Intimacy Therapist

If you need help to overcome or understand how your sex life is unfolding, you need to seek the help of a San Francisco intimacy therapist. Through sexual therapy, you understand your sexual needs and get ready to explore your desires. Additionally, you improve communication between yourself and your sexual partner.

Intimacy therapy addresses sexual satisfaction and pleasure. Intimacy therapy is similar to psychotherapy in that in both therapies; the client talks to the therapist about their intimacy challenges. A competent San Francisco intimacy therapist has a license to prove they underwent professional training in mental health and sex therapy.

At You Rule Therapy, we offer the services of the best San Francisco intimacy therapist.

What is Intimacy Therapy?

We can define intimacy therapy as a professional talk where a client seeks the services of an intimacy therapist alone or as a couple to discuss their sex life. The aim of intimacy therapy is to help the client openly explore and reveal the factors that hinder their sexual satisfaction. There isn’t a limit to the topics discussed, but some common ones include;

  • Sexual anxiety

  • Erectile dysfunction

  • Depression

  • Trauma

  • Dealing with a non-communicative sexual partner.

An intimacy therapist focuses on the issues you raise at a personal or interpersonal level for you and your partner. Intimacy therapy also explores the underlying emotions we often ignore in sexual relationships. When you address these feelings, an opportunity arises for an individual or couple to discuss and manage uncomfortable discussions effectively.

Our San Francisco intimacy therapist at You Rule Therapy believes that understanding your sexuality is essential to living a fulfilled life. Therefore, we encourage you to explore sexual freedom through free thought and feelings and practice healthy sexual activities. We approach your concern as a solvable situation rather than a disease. Intimacy therapy allows you to analyze your sexual experiences in the past and present and your sexual aspirations in the future. You get a safe space to explore your sexual freedom.

Who is Intimacy Therapy for?

If you feel distressed over a sexual issue or are seeking to improve your sex life, intimacy therapy is for you. It benefits all genders, couples, and individuals of any adult age. Often, sexual concerns arise within relationships. Couples should seek San Francisco couples therapy because when you work on your concerns better as a couple than individually if you experience the following. It's time to see an intimacy therapist.

  • Anxiety and tension in your relationship as a result of sex

  • You feel your partner misunderstands your sexual needs

  • Your sex life has a negative impact on other sectors of your life

  • You feel unhappy, ashamed, and anxious about your sex life

What can you expect?

At You Rule Therapy, we offer you comfortable, informative, and solution-oriented intimacy therapy sessions. We understand that you feel vulnerable to discussing your intimate life openly. First, we will find out your concerns and areas you need help. Our sessions include exercises and techniques that help your thought process derive solutions. The sessions include intimacy therapy homework such as reading or communicating, which you do individually or with your partner. The homework aims to help you express your concerns and practice how to work on them to improve your intimate life.

Homework exercises and techniques include;

  • Experimentation

Experimentation works best for couples who feel they have a boring sex life. In experimentation, the couple tries out new activities in their sexual life. These include; role-playing, using sex toys, and changing sex routines and sex positions.

  • Sensate focus

A three-stage process helps couples build trust and reduce anxiety. The stages are; non-sexual touch, genital touch, and penetration.

  • Education

Unfortunately, most people didn’t receive adequate sex education in their upbringing. Therefore, the anatomy of sexual activity may be unfamiliar to them. In intimacy therapy, clients get book and web content recommendations to learn.

  • Communication strategies

An intimacy therapist coaches you on how to ask for what you need and desire sexually from your partner.

Conclusion

The success of intimacy therapy depends on your commitment to the process. Working individually or with your partner and cooperating with your intimacy therapist would be best. At You Rule Therapy, our business is to support your intimacy journey. If you are ready to reach your intimacy goals, contact us or fill out our contact form, and we will get back to you as soon as possible.