Douglaston Psychotherapy provides sex therapy and sex counseling for sexual dysfunction disorders. What are sexual dysfunction disorders? They include arousal disorders, response disorders, as well as the presence of disturbing, erotically necessary fantasies about fetishes, children, or other non-consenting persons. Sexual dysfunction also includes risky masochistic and/or sadistic behaviors, some cross-dressing, fetishism, and voyeurism that are linked to arousal and which have grown out of control and feel frightening.
Since the sexual response cycle is comprised of three phases: desire, excitement, and orgasm, it makes sense that sexual dysfunction disorders may also be organized roughly in conjunction with these phases. We can, therefore, speak about Hypoactive Sexual Desire and Sexual Aversion Disorder. We can speak about Inhibited Female Orgasm or Female Orgasmic Disorder, Retarded Ejaculation or Delayed Ejaculation and Premature Ejaculation. We can speak about Vaginismus and Erectile Dysfunction Disorder.
Good sex therapy will usually correct most problems, provided other causes are ruled out. The challenge for a good sex therapist is two-fold: (1) to teach and monitor the fairly simple behavioral modifications that have proven so effective in reducing sexual dysfunction, and (2) to skillfully handle the deeper issues that are often at the heart of certain dysfunctions. Good sex therapy must also manage the anxieties and resistances that crop up during the treatment process. For example, when the prematurely ejaculating man begins to gain ejaculatory control, his partner will frequently grow anxious about continuing treatment for fear that success will result in her being left for “a more attractive” partner. Thus, because sex is so closely linked with intimacy and relationship, these areas can also be made a part of the therapy.
Douglaston Psychotherapy welcomes married or partnered individuals of any sexual orientation for sex therapy. Couples therapy or marital therapy is efficacious for same-sex unions and for heterosexual unions.
Counseling and Treatment of Sexual Dysfunction
However, it is not necessary to have a sexual partner in order to seek and receive successful treatment for a sexual disorder. Self-stimulation exercises and assignments have been developed in the treatment strategies for the single patient. And, in respectful recognition of certain Orthodox Jewish and devout Catholic prohibitions against masturbation and “spilling seed,” modifications are made in order to remain within the bounds of a couple’s religious beliefs.
Sex therapy, or therapy that includes sexual issues is not surrogacy. Sex therapy is limited to verbal exchanges. A good sex therapist maintains an empathic, non-judgmental environment where it is safe for the individual and the couple to discuss and resolve difficult issues.
Douglaston Psychotherapy is located between Little Neck, New York and Bayside, New York, in northern Queens. It is also close to Great Neck, Manhasset and New Hyde Park. The office is easily reached from the Long Island Expressway and from the Cross Island Expressway. It is discretely located away from the center of town, with free, on-street parking. A private waiting room with private entrance is large enough to accommodate a group or family.
Lisa Lempel-Sander is a licensed Douglaston NY Therapist with a Psychotherapy practice for short and long term therapy. Her main areas of practice include: Depression Counseling for Depression and Anxiety Disorders, Eating Disorder Therapy for the Treatment of Anorexia, Bulimia and other Eating Disorders, Couples Therapy, and Phobia Treatment for Social Phobias, Agoraphobia and Panic Attacks.
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