The clinical sexologist’s scope of practice is wide and various. Here is an insight of the different sexual and relational disorders because of which a person on its own or a couple may decide to start a sexotherapy.
Lack of coital sexual desire (fusional desire, desire for children, etc.)
Global lack of sexual desire
Sexual abuse
Victim
Abuser
Sexual orientation
Sense of belonging to one’s biological sex
Feminity, masculinity
Difficulty asserting one’s feminity or masculinity
Transsexualism
Sexual compulsivity
Sexual deviance
RELATIONAL DIFFICULTIES
• Questioning regarding love
• Confusion between love and sexual desire
• Sexual problems within the couple
• Difficulties to communicate within the couple
• Seduction problems between partners
The initial claim of the persons who get sexotherapy counselling is to improve their explicit reality. That is why the Sexocorporel Approach proposes concrete and efficient ways to reach that goal.
These sexotherapies last from short to medium term (from a few weeks to a few months) depending on the difficulty. The treatment consists in a work with the person or the couple on different levels (thoughts, emotions, body abilities or abilities to get in touch with the partners).
Here are the main steps of a therapeutic process :
Evaluation of the sexual difficulty
Explanation of the evaluation result in order to enable the patient to understand his/her difficulty and his/her current functioning.
Explanation of the treatment plan goals in order to enable the patient to adhere to the treatment on both cognitive and emotional levels.
Implementation and integration of sexocorporel and relational abilities.
