Intimacy & Relationships Counseling

Intimacy and relationships counseling, also known as intimacy therapy, is a type of therapy that helps people and couples address issues that affect their closeness, connection, and trust in their relationship: 

• Communication-Improving communication skills can help couples build trust and establish a solid sense of closeness. 
• Sexual satisfaction-Intimacy therapy can help couples address physical and psychological factors that impact their sexual satisfaction. 
• Past experiences-Childhood trauma, such as abuse or neglect, can make it difficult to form and maintain intimate relationships. 
• Needs-Intimacy counseling can help couples understand each other's needs. 

Intimacy counseling can help couples:

• Address issues that prevent closeness
• Improve communication skills
• Establish trust
• Address physical and psychological factors that impact sexual satisfaction
• Manage uncomfortable feelings
• Heal from past wounds
• Develop healthier patterns of intimacy 

During intimacy counseling, a therapist will focus on personal, psychological, medical, and other interpersonal issues. The therapist will not suggest opening up the relationship or force clients to reveal past sexual escapades.