Sex therapy is the opportunity to talk through any issues arising for you related to your sex, gender, and sexual identities/preferences and to work through the goals you have both for yourself and within your relationships.  All sexual orientations and relationship configurations are welcome. It is a talking therapy, and you will remain fully clothed and no touch is involved. If you are looking for a somatic (body/touch) therapist, please go here https://www.somaticsexologistsaotearoa.nz/. Sex therapy is for all people aged 16 years and above (in Aotearoa/New Zealand), and all walks of life are welcome.

Relationship therapy is more broadly focused on improving friendships, developing effective communication, enhancing intimacy, and addressing issues such as conflict, affairs, and infidelity within your relationship(s). It is attended by you and your partner(s) together. When a sexological issue is affecting the relationship, attending therapy together will most likely provide better outcomes than individual therapy. (Attending relationship therapy might result in you having more and better sex if that is what you desire! Win, win).

Sex therapy and coaching provide the opportunity to work through your experiences and have them normalised, ask questions, and find out factually correct information on ‘hard to discuss’ topics with the safe and non-judgmental support of a professional who is clinically trained, trauma-informed, non-judgmental, and sex-positive. Therapy helps individuals adjust to loss and change, learn how to engage in intimate conversations, and enhance their communication skills.  Also, to develop body literacy and to understand and improve consent, pleasure, desire, fantasies, intimacy, and your sexual and attachment feelings, behaviours, and experiences. Furthermore, it is about resourcing you to have access to strategies and supports to fulfil your sexuality related needs.

Examples of why people may engage with sex or relationship therapy include the desire to work through:

• disclosed or discovered affairs & infidelity,
• unsatisfying sex lives, different sex drives, rekindling of the relationship,
• navigating expanding desires and explorations in relationships,
• navigating relationship breakups,
• navigating different relationship configurations, consent and boundaries,
• problems with physical or emotional intimacy,
• neurodiversity and sensory-related concerns,
• barriers to intimacy due to disability, injury or illness,
• calibrating to a healthy relationship with pornography use, and balancing the relational effects of pornography use and intimacy,
• changes affecting sexuality and identity, such as becoming a parent, life cycles – perimenopause/menopause, ageing, disabilities, injury, or surgery,
• understanding asexuality,
• gender-related identities and explorations,
• barriers to intimacy due to cultural and/or religious beliefs/upbringing,
• medicalised sexual difficulties, i.e. lack of arousal, pain, erectile dysfunctions, sexual compulsions,
• trauma and childhood adverse experiences affecting present-day identity and sexual experiences,
• other sexuality-related questions and concerns.

Angela is a contracted consultant affiliated with Sex Therapy New Zealand, an ACC Registered Health Professional, (NOT sensitive claims) and contracted with Taranaki Primary Connections. Therapy and Supervision sessions can be booked below. These sessions are available online via Zoom. Please use the 10-minute online ‘meet and greet’ to talk through your specific needs. Session options include:

• A free 10-minute meet and greet consult to determine if I can meet your needs and to decide what appointment structure will suit you (Free)
• Brief intervention sessions of 30 minutes for individuals for assessment, coaching/education purposes, or follow-up sessions ($87.00 incl gst)
• 50-minute therapy sessions for individuals (Privately Paying or ACC) ($145.00 incl gst or ACC funded)
• 60-minute therapy sessions for individuals (Taranaki Primary Connections funded – Free)
• 65-minute relationship therapy sessions for couples (two people) ($190.00 incl gst)
• 90-minute relationship therapy sessions for couples (two people) ($260.00 incl gst)
• 90-minute relationship therapy sessions for those in a relationship of more than two people(CNM), (three+ people), ($87.00 each incl gst)
• A three-hour and 30-minute initial assessment session for couples, followed by ongoing 65- or 90-minute relationship therapy sessions as needed ($610.00 incl gst)

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