Many, many people and couples have 'issues' around sexuality - whether it's a lack of desire, a mis-match of desire, addictions, 'dysfunctions', compulsivity, shame etc. And yet, people dont bring it to individual therapy all that much. People are not used to talking about it openly - sexual feelings, sexual hang-ups, sexual 'norms' (or otherwise), sexual relationships, sexual harassment and trauma, how we feel about and inhabit our bodies, the absence of sexual feelings, the absence of sex, the difference between sex and intimacy, what intimacy really is...
My training in relational body psychotherapy and in the psychospiritual work of neo-tantra enables me to see many sexual 'issues' through the lens of energy movement in the body and how that gets blocked... and... that this is relational, eg, that we might 'block' our sexual energy in order to preserve relationships or over-work it to feel more powerful, which can be a block to true intimacy.
More to come...
