Services

Individuals

 

There are numerous reasons why someone may seek therapy such as feeling stuck, looking for direction, trauma and emotional pain or patterns of hurting others. In therapy we can explore strengths and challenges that include, but are not limited to:

  • Low self-esteem (how you feel about yourself)

  • Low self-respect (how you think about yourself) 

  • Low self-Worth (what you feel you can contribute)

  • Anxiety

  • Depression

  • Managing stress

  • Feelings of repression

  • Trauma responses and regulation

  • Anger management

  • Dating, relationships and sex

  • Guilt and Shame

  • Life Transitions

  • Jealousy/Insecurity

  • Intimacy, connection and vulnerability

  • Substance use (if you are using or someone you love is using in ways that interfere with wellbeing)

  • Emptiness/feeling unfulfilled/loneliness

  • Identity formation

  • How to be your authentic self in relationships

  • Grief, loss and sadness (including loss of self, due to illness or chronic pain)

  • Doing things that feel out of your control, as defined by you, such as patterns of abusive behaviour, affairs, gambling, substance use, sex shopping, internet use etc... 

  • Sexual trauma and body awareness

  • Defining, accessing and embodying pleasure

Partner(s)

 

Relationships can be essential to our wellbeing and when they are not going well, it can cause pain and turmoil in our lives. In therapy with partner(s), we can explore a variety of issues including disrupting painful or negative patterns of interaction, working through resentment, healing past and present hurts, exploring new ways to communicate,  navigating uncomfortable and difficult conversations and addressing conflict to find new tools to  enhance connection, intimacy and empowerment.  Here are some examples of why partner(s) choose to come to therapy:

  • Bickering and fighting

  • How to be your authentic self while in a relationship

  • Communication issues and misunderstandings

  • Having uncomfortable, awkward or difficult conversations

  • Learning to talk about sex and pleasure

  • Accessing and embodying pleasure

  • Working to become more vulnerable

  • Jealousy/Insecurity

  • Dissatisfaction with your sex life/Sexual “functioning”/desire

  • Physical or emotional affairs

  • Unsupportive families

  • Kinks/Fetishes/BDSM

  • Establishing or re-negotiating agreements

  • De-escalating relationships

  • Life transitions/Adjusting to change

  • Navigating consent

  • Blending families

  • Non-Monogamy

  • Stress management

  • Substance use

  • Hurtful/abusive interactions

  • Healing from trauma (including sexual trauma) for one or both partners and learning how to work together in order to heal

Sexuality Work

 

Sex affirming therapy acknowledges there is an array of ways to honour our sexualities and connect with others. Sex affirming therapy can help us have awkward conversations, become more sexually confident and address pending questions we may have about sexual orientation, expression, gender, kink and/or alternative relationships. It can help us navigate challenges we are facing in our relationships or with our sexual “functioning”. In sex affirming therapy we work together, based on your values, to address your sexual hopes and concerns. Here are some examples of why people come to therapy to do sexuality work:

  • Difficulty being your authentic self in your relationship(s)

  • Loss of attraction to a partner

  • Not experiencing orgasms

  • Loss of passion

  • Desire discrepancy with partner(s)

  • Ejaculating too quickly or too slowly (as defined by you or a partner)

  • Reconnecting to sensuality/sexual self-confidence

  • Learning to talk about sex with partners

  • Jealousy/Insecurity

  • Masturbation

  • Defining, accessing and embodying pleasure

  • Gender roles and identities

  • Coming out

  • Identity exploration

  • Opening Up

  • 2SLGBTQIA+ sex

  • Fantasy, desire and arousal

  • Kink, BDSM and Fetishes

  • Body Image

  • Aging

  • Sex work 

  • Interpretations and understandings of Sexuality

  • Stigma and Discrimination

  • Female circumcision

  • Sexuality and Culture and/or religion

  • Sexual trauma

  • Sexuality and the internet (including dating, sex work, bullying and stalking)

  • Negotiation and consent

  • Infidelity/Affairs

  • “Out of control” behaviours (defined by client) that are affecting your wellbeing or your relationship(s)

  • Family and identities(s)

  • Sex and money/finances

  • Sexuality and chronic pain/chronic illness