Sexual Enhancement Couples Counselling Program
What is Sexual Enrichment Couples Counselling
Sexual Enrichment Couples Counselling is for couples that want to focus on the sexual side of their relationship and are already in a good relationship. This can include couples that communicate well or that have been to marriage counselling previously). It is not for those that are just recently experienced a breach of trust such as infidelity or currently experiencing trauma. It may help erotic recovery after an affair once a couple is ready to connect physically again. Relationship counselling rather than sex therapy would be a better option for those with trauma prior to embarking on a program that focuses on sexual intimacy. For more information on intensives, please click here
This couples counselling is for you if you want to:
- increase sexual satisfaction
- emotional and physical intimacy
- build a better quality sex life
- understand your brakes and accelerator to sexual desire
- enjoy and look forward to sex
- feel that there is something missing from your sex life
What you learn with sexual enhancement couples counselling
Each couple is very different and each session may cover a different topic. Counselling is a mixture of psych-education and 1:1 exercises. Examples of what might be covered in counselling may include:
- Uncovering your desires
- Ability to express your desires freely
- Dissolve blocks to intimacy
- Tantra techniques
- Taoist techniques
- Self-hypnosis for sex techniques
- All sessions are Kink friendly
Clinical Research on Sexual Enhancement Programs
METHOD/RESULTS
This study examined 10 married couples from 51 to 71yrs. Results showed significant increases in sexual satisfaction, frequency of sexual activities and positive attitudes about marital and life satisfaction following an education program on sexual functioning and communication exercises.
RESEARCH ARTICLE
Rowland, K. F., & Haynes, S. N. (1978). A sexual enhancement program for elderly couples. Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy,4(2), 91-113. doi:10.1080/00926237808403010
METHOD/RESULTS
104 postmenopausal women (aged 40 to 60yrs) a sexual enhancement program improved sexual functioning, arousal and pain. The study concluded that sexual functioning in postmenopausal women can be improved by a sexual enhancement program.
RESEARCH ARTICLE
Nazarpour, S., Simbar, M., Tehrani, F. R., & Majd, H. A. (2016). The impact of a sexual enhancement program on the sexual function of postmenopausal women. Climacteric,19(5), 506-511. doi:10.1080/13697137.2016.1219984
METHOD/RESULTS
Research explored 30 couples that undertook a sexual enrichment communication-training program. They met for 3hrs, 1 day per week for 4 consecutive weeks. Participants found that affection expression and overall marriage satisfaction was improved by undertaking specific sexual communication training.
RESEARCH ARTICLE
Cooper, A., & Stoltenberg, C. D. (1987). Comparison of a sexual enhancement and a communication training program on sexual and marital satisfaction. Journal of Counseling Psychology,34(3), 309-314. doi:10.1037/0022-0167.34.3.309