PhilosophySexual Counseling and Sexual Therapy
During functional counseling, the main focus is on education and sharing knowledge. Sexual counseling in its most specific understanding requires extensive sexual medical knowledge (i.e. over sexual development, inter/trans-sexuality, gender identity, paraphilia, dissexuality) and can imply questions on the meaning of life. The boundaries of sexual therapy are fluid. Sexual therapy is indicated where education and the sharing of knowledge are not sufficient, problems have already become chronic and the causes lie deeper. Its primary goal is not the quick alleviation of the symptoms; rather, it is a complete improvement of the total relational satisfaction including functional rehabilitation. For this reason, the patients / couple need to accept and be open for the relational dimension of sexuality, namely, that genital/coital sexuality is a particularly intensive and intimate possibility to passionately experience the fulfillment of the needs of acceptance, value, belonging, closeness and security sought in the partnership. In this way, an isolated, divided and negatively experienced “sex” can become a “collective work” — an integrated salutogenic sexuality. The difference is clear. |
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