"The wound is the place where the Light enters you" -Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi


Common reasons somatic sex therapy support is sought for sexuality and birth:

 

SEXUALITY

  1. Healing and clearing of sexual blocks, trauma, shame and wounding

  2. Desire for deeper connection to self, purpose and creativity

  3. Difficulty climaxing and reaching orgasm

  4. Relief from desensitization and numbness

  5. Low sex drive, arousal and sexual interest

  6. Relief from pelvic pain

  7. Resistance to pleasure

  8. Overcoming shyness, inhibition and insecurity

  9. Learning to fully receive pleasure

  10. To practice communication around sexual requests, desires and boundaries

  11. Recovering sexual functioning and pleasure after childbirth; genital, pelvic or breast surgery

  12. Sexual exploration and self-touch

  13. To deepen ones interior awareness of sensation

  14. Sexual anatomy education

  15. To practice accepting and loving one’s body, gender and sexuality

  16. To develop a positive body-image

  17. Couples wanting to enhance and grow in their sex life

  18. Referred by a therapist, doctor, social worker, massage therapist, healer

 

BIRTH

  1. To practice resiliency in the vaginal and perineal area

  2. Recovering sexual functioning and pleasure after childbirth; genital, pelvic or breast surgery

  3. Preparing for birthing, opening and softening pelvic floor + gaining awareness

  4. Pelvic floor mapping and education

  5. Addressing fears around birthing; like pushing, "stretching out" or "not tightening up"

  6. Receive and learn about how to give oneself perineal massage

  7. Learn how to use the pelvic floor muscles

  8. Address emotional/physical tensions, fears and blocks that may arise