VIRTUAL AND IN-PERSON THERAPY IN NYC

Sex Therapy for Individuals & Couples

Do you want more connection, intimacy and a more fulfilling sex life, but aren’t sure where to start?

Talking about sex and intimacy can be difficult and sometimes feel embarrassing, but you are not alone. At some point in their lives, almost everyone has a challenge in this area. Working with a knowledgeable therapist who you feel comfortable with can help you better understand your situation, and find options and solutions.

Sex is more than just sex

Sex influences our overall well being, from intimacy in relationships to self esteem, and life fulfillment. Sexual health is part of both our emotional and physical health. Our society has many views of what is “normal”, yet your sexuality is uniquely defined by you. Messages from society, religion, culture, family, or friends can keep us from understanding our own needs, desires, and values about our sexuality.

What is Sex Therapy?

Sex therapy incorporates many factors of our lives, including psychological, physical, emotional, relational, and societal. Sex therapy can help you better understand your sexuality, whether you are needing help with a sexual dysfunction, increasing intimacy and connection, sexual understanding, or increasing sexual fulfillment.

Sex therapy can help both individuals and couples better understand and express their sexual desires and needs, which can lead to a more meaningful and fulfilling connection to oneself or a partner.

How it Works

Sex therapy can help both individuals and couples explore individual values around pleasure, sex, self awareness, needs, and desires. Together we’ll explore beliefs impacting your sexual pleasure and overall enjoyment of life. As a Certified Sex Therapist, I am accepting of everyone's sexual experiences and beliefs.

For Couples

I can help you determine if your presenting issue would be best addressed individually or with your partner (if you have one). Many couples find sex one of the most difficult topics to discuss openly with each other. Our couples sessions can help start those discussions. Our sessions are collaborative and explorative, yet goal and results oriented. We typically meet once a week for 60 minutes in the beginning, and over time can move to once every two weeks. Occasionally there may be an individual session with each partner.

For Individuals

Individual therapy sessions are 50 minutes, and we typically once a week.

Both individual and couples sex therapy are offered in-person and over zoom.

Examples of Issues Addressed in Sex Therapy

    • Mismatched desire/one partner wants more sex than the other

    • Mismatched sexual interest/one partner wants different types of sex than the other

    • Desire for more pleasure, satisfaction, intimacy and/or emotional connection

    • Loss or decrease of Sexual Desire, Lack of Pleasure

    • Kink and BDSM

    • Boredom and wanting more pleasure 

    • Out of control sexual behaviors

    • Infidelity

    • Becoming parents

    • Lifestyle choices around monogamy and/or non-monogamy

    • Illness and medications

    • Fertility issues 

    • Sexual scripts and roles

    • Improving communication about intimacy

    • Interference of outside factors/life stressors

    • Painful intercourse

    • Vaginismus

    • Vulvodynia (pain around the vulvar area with no known cause)

    • Shame around sex

    • Feeling sexual incompetence

    • Pregnancy/post pregnancy

    • Negative body image

    • Difficulty reaching orgasm

    • IVF, pregnancy, postpartum, childbirth, menopause

    • Gaining sexual confidence

    • Sexual trauma or abuse

    • Shame around sex

    • Anxiety about sexual functioning

    • Feeling sexual incompetence

    • Sexual identity concerns

    • Compulsive behaviors related to sex

    • Exploring gender and sexual identity, orientation, and/or expression

    • Erectile dysfunction/unpredictability

    • Performance anxiety

    • Ejacatoray control

    • Negative sexual body image

    • Lack of sexual confidence

    • Out of control sexual behavior/porn “addiction”

    • Decreased libido/desire

    • Sexual issues related to medications/illness

    • Exploring gender and sexual identity, orientation and or expression