Sexual Arousal Issues

When is it time to get help?

If you, and/or your partner desire an active sex life, but you feel physically or emotionally unable to achieve this goal, then it’s time to enlist help!

Sexual arousal issues treatment methods

There may be medical or drug-related causes for your absent or low libido, so it’s important to get that checked out. There are medications available that may be able to alleviate your symptoms. However, even if there are medical causes, it’s sometimes best to also speak to a therapist as there are likely emotional issues to deal with as well – especially if this has been happening for a while and it has affected you and your relationships.

There are several treatment methods available to help you to overcome this issue. Your therapist will look at your individual circumstances and possible causes of your sexual arousal issues to determine the best treatment approach for you. They may include some of these therapies that have been successful for other people:

• Sex therapy is the treatment of sexual dysfunction and also includes working with concerns about sexual feelings and intimacy, less common alternative sexual practices, kink, gender issues, sexual offending issues, or work on optimizing or exploring new experiences. Sex therapy can also include distressing sexual behaviour, sexual abuse, and trauma.    
• Mindfulness therapy is an approach to treatment that focuses on how people’s thoughts, emotions, and beliefs influence their behaviour and how they perceive themselves, others, and the world. The ability to be in the moment, to acknowledge and regulate your emotions helps you to break free from negative thought patterns. 
• Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is an evidence-based approach to treatment that focuses on how people’s thoughts, emotions, and beliefs influence their behaviour and how they perceive themselves.  
• Behaviour therapy tends to view human beings and behaviour with the assumption that humans are a product of their sociocultural conditioning and environment, looking at the current problems and the factors influencing them and emphasizes behaviour changes more than the underlying unconscious processes.