Sex & Intimacy Therapy
Our relationships with sex and intimacy can be complicated. What we want, what feels good, what feels difficult, and what intimacy means to us can change throughout our lives and relationships. Therapy offers a space to explore these experiences and better understand your desires, needs, and values with curiosity and without judgment.
Get support from a specialized team of experienced couple and family therapists.
Sex & Intimacy Therapy for Individuals and Relationships
At Couple Therapy Toronto, we offer sex and intimacy therapy for individuals, couples, and people in diverse relationship structures. Our therapists bring specialized training and experience in couple and relationship therapy to this work, creating a supportive, non-judgmental space to explore sexuality, intimacy, and the ways they can intersect with our relationships, identities, bodies, and experiences.
People come to sex therapy for many different reasons. Sometimes there is a specific concern, such as differences in desire, difficulty with arousal or orgasm, pain or discomfort during sex, sexual shame, or conflict between partners. Other times, nothing is necessarily “wrong”. We may simply be curious about ourselves, want to communicate more openly about sex, feel closer to someone we love, or build a more fulfilling relationship with our own sexuality.
Therapy gives us space to understand what's happening without beginning from the assumption that there is a “right” way our sex lives or relationships should look.
Sex & Intimacy Therapy in Toronto & Across Ontario
Sessions may be available in other Canadian provinces, depending on local regulations and therapist availability. Please contact us if you are located outside Ontario, and we will be happy to confirm whether we can accommodate your request.
In-person therapy is available with select therapists at their offices.
Common concerns that clients seek support for include:
Worries about having overly high or low levels of desire
Difficulties with sexual arousal
Disparities in sexual desire between partners
Difficulty reaching orgasm
Self-judgment or shame around sex and sexual fantasies
Reduced sexual pleasure
The presence of pain or discomfort during sex
The use of pornography or engagement in specific fetishes
Sex therapy may also overlap with broader life issues, such as sexual orientation, the challenges of coming out, or the impact of a history of sexual abuse on current experiences of intimacy.
Understanding Sex & Intimacy Concerns
Therapy isn't about measuring your sexuality against someone else's idea of “normal”.
We explore what sex and intimacy mean to you, the experiences and expectations that have shaped that relationship, and what feels consistent with your own desires, boundaries, needs, and values.
Learn more from Nat Roman (RP, RMFT):
How Therapy Can Help With Sex & Intimacy
Depending on what brings us to therapy, it may not always be obvious how talking with a therapist could make a difference in our experiences of sex and intimacy. Some may wonder how
Our Approach to Sex Therapy
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What to Look for in a Sex Therapist
Sex and intimacy concerns can involve everything from desire and pleasure to communication, identity, vulnerability, relationship dynamics, and the ways we relate to our own bodies. Because these concerns can be complex and deeply personal, choosing the right therapist is important. Therapists can have very different levels and types of education, training, and experience in this work, so it can be helpful to look more closely at their background and what informs their practice.
When looking for a sex therapist, you may want to look for:
Professional credentials and registration: What is their professional designation, and are they accountable to a regulatory college or professional body?
Education and specialized training: Have they pursued education or clinical training relevant to sexuality, intimacy, couples, or relationships?
Experience with sex and intimacy concerns: Is working with sex and intimacy concerns an established part of their practice and experience?
Experience working with relationships: Do they have training and experience that helps them understand how sexuality can intersect with communication, attachment, trust, conflict, and other relationship dynamics?
Additional areas of expertise: Depending on what brings you to therapy, additional training, certification, or professional experience in a particular area may also be relevant.
Training, experience, and certification aren't necessarily interchangeable. Therapists may pursue extensive additional education and supervised training without obtaining a separate certification, while others may pursue certification or develop further expertise in a particular area.
Our therapists share specialized training in couple and relationship therapy and experience working with sex and intimacy concerns, while bringing different additional training, professional backgrounds, therapeutic approaches, and areas of expertise to their work. This allows us to consider both the concern bringing you to therapy and the kind of expertise that may be most helpful when finding the right fit.
Frequently Asked Questions
If you have any questions regarding sex therapy that we haven’t answered here, please feel free to send us a message through our contact form.
The term "sex therapy" can conjure up all kinds of images, many of which may be inaccurate. Sex therapy is simply the process of bringing issues of sexuality into therapeutic work so that these issues can be talked about, understood, and when necessary transformed into experiences, attitudes and practices that are in more line with your desires, needs and values.