Treatment will be individually tailored to meet each client’s specific needs. Sex therapy is primarily talk therapy, though treatment will often be supplemented by at-home behavioral exercises, discussion, and relevant reading. There is never any nudity or sexual behavior in session. Length of treatment varies and will be discussed after your assessment during the feedback and treatment planning session.

In the early days of therapy, sexual concerns were treated with long and intensive psychoanalysis. “Modern” sex therapy, first developed in the 1960s by Dr. William Masters and his colleague Virginia Johnson, diverged from psychoanalytic methods to use specific behavioral exercises in combination with talk therapy to address sexual concerns. Because sexual experiences often take place in the context of relationships, since then sex therapy has evolved to merge the best practices in couple/marital therapy with sex therapy techniques. This integrated approach is at the basis of the current practice of sex therapy.