Psychosexual couples counselling offers a supportive and confidential space to explore these concerns together, helping couples rebuild understanding, intimacy, and trust. The work may need a sensate focus program to enable small, measured steps to reconnect. In order for this work to be effective the relationship needs to be in good shape. Past resentments need to be resolved. If you need couple counselling to get the relationship to a good place before the psychosexual counselling, we will also help with that to ensure the psychosexual gets the best chance to succeed.
What Is Psychosexual Couples Counselling?
Psychosexual couples counselling focuses on the emotional, psychological, and relational aspects of sex and intimacy. Rather than concentrating solely on sexual behaviour or performance, therapy also looks at the wider picture — including communication, emotional closeness, beliefs about sex, stress, life changes, and past negative experiences or individual historical abuse that may be affecting your sexual relationship.
Sessions are non-judgemental and carefully paced, ensuring both partners feel heard, respected, and supported.
Common Reasons Couples Seek Support
Couples often come to psychosexual counselling for issues such as:
- Differences in sexual desire or frequency
- Loss of intimacy or emotional closeness
- Sexual difficulties, including pain, arousal issues, or performance anxiety
- The impact of pornography or compulsive sexual behaviour
- Infidelity or breaches of trust
- Anxiety, shame, or avoidance around sex
- Life transitions such as parenthood, menopause, illness, or stress
Seeking support early can help prevent these difficulties from becoming more deeply rooted over time.
How Counselling Can Help
Psycho-sexual couples counselling helps partners communicate more openly and honestly about sex and intimacy, often for the first time. Therapy can reduce shame, anxiety, and misunderstandings, allowing couples to better understand each other’s experiences and needs.
As emotional safety improves, many couples find they are able to rebuild trust and reconnect — both emotionally and physically. Counselling also offers practical tools and strategies that support lasting change beyond the therapy room.
Taking the First Step Together
You don’t need to be in crisis to benefit from psycho-sexual couples counselling. If intimacy or sexual concerns are affecting your relationship, therapy can help you move forward with greater clarity, connection, and confidence. Psychosexual counsellors are highly trained to work in this arena and put you at ease.
Support is available — and you don’t have to face these challenges alone, or apart.
Our psychosexual counsellors profiles
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Get in touch with the Nightingale team. You can either call us on 0141 353 9373 or Info@nightingalemarriagecounselling.co.uk or use the contact form on our Contact Page.