Sex Therapy
11 theories available
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Sex Therapy
Reclaim intimacy and pleasure with evidence-based approaches to sexual wellbeing. These theories address desire, arousal, connection, and dysfunction—helping you understand what's happening in your body and relationships, and how to create the intimacy you want.
Schnarch Differentiation
David Schnarch's revolutionary insight that sexual difficulties reflect larger relationship dynamics and a lack of differentiation—and how the bedroom becomes a path to personal growth.
Kaplan's Triphasic Model
Helen Singer Kaplan's three-phase model focusing on desire, excitement, and orgasm—with special emphasis on understanding and cultivating sexual desire.
Cognitive Behavioral Sex Therapy
Apply CBT principles to transform negative thoughts about sex, overcome performance anxiety, and develop healthier sexual attitudes and behaviors.
Emotionally Focused Therapy for Sexual Intimacy
Use attachment theory to understand how emotional patterns affect sexual connection and learn to create secure bonds that enhance intimacy.
Sensate Focus
A structured touch-based intervention developed by Masters and Johnson that helps individuals and couples overcome sexual difficulties by rebuilding intimacy without performance pressure.
PLISSIT Model
A structured framework for addressing sexual concerns at appropriate levels of intervention, from Permission to Intensive Therapy, widely used in sexual health counseling.
Sexual Response Cycle
Masters and Johnson's groundbreaking four-phase model of sexual response that helps you understand and optimize excitement, plateau, orgasm, and resolution phases.
Good Enough Sex Model
Release perfectionism and embrace realistic expectations about sex, focusing on pleasure, connection, and intimacy rather than performance.
Dual Control Model
Understand your unique sexual excitation and inhibition systems to optimize conditions for arousal and address desire discrepancies.
Intersystems Approach
A comprehensive framework examining how individual psychology, relationship dynamics, family patterns, and cultural factors all influence sexual functioning.
Mindfulness-Based Sex Therapy
Use present-moment awareness and body-focused techniques to overcome spectatoring, enhance pleasure, and deepen sexual connection.