Explore relationship counselling, couples sex therapy, and sex coaching in a safe space.
Who can we help with counselling and sex therapy?
Pleasure Centred Sexology offers couples sex therapy, relationship counselling and intimacy coaching. We provide relationship and couples sex therapy in Melbourne to help people in monogamous or non monogamous partnerships to understand and address barriers that get in the way of a satisfying sex life and to build tools and skills to communicate differently. Rethink or expand opportunities for sexual connection, learn how to touch, practice consent, work through conflict, and break old patterns keeping you stuck.
Common topics individuals and couples might explore in a couples sex therapy Melbourne session:
Intimacy counselling when one partner has a lower libido or differing desire levels
How to cultivate desire again when you’ve “lost the spark”
Education around sexual desire and skills
Learning to initiate sex and affection in new ways
Consent and touch education
Coping with sexual rejection
Learning how to say no without fear of hurting feelings
Building a healthier, more sustainable relationship with sex and intimacy
Learning how to have difficult conversations around sex
Communicating openly about pleasure, needs, and boundaries
Supporting a partner who has trauma, fear, or anxiety around sex
Developing skills for giving and receiving feedback
Working through resentment, hurt or emotional distance, and rebuilding trust
Work through specific sexual concerns with couples therapy Melbourne-wide, such as:
Pain during sex that affects pleasure or intimacy
Difficulties with orgasm, ejaculation, or erectile function
Learning how to communicate about what you want and don’t want when it comes to pleasurable, satisfying sex
Support around avoidance of sex due to stress, shame, and fear, and working towards creating more safety and choice
Education, skills and tools to explore kink and BDSM
Considering, exploring and creating agreements for non-monogamy or open relationships
Navigating different access needs between neurodivergent partners or neurodivergent and neurotypical partners
Exploring grief, loss and big changes in your relationship
Navigating transitions, gender identity and sexual diversity in a relationship
Rebuilding emotional and physical closeness, trust and safety to express what you want and how you feel
Becoming parents or navigating the changes and challenges to sex and intimacy during pregnancy or as parents with younger children
What makes our approach to sex therapy and relationship counselling different?
Unlike general couples counselling, we recognise that sex, intimacy and pleasure are often important topics that people in relationships want to discuss. We bring sex and sexual issues to the forefront, and our couples sex therapists are highly skilled at creating an affirming, safer and non-judgemental environment to talk about how you feel and what you want when it comes to sex in your relationship.
At Pleasure Centred Sexology, we provide a structured space for relationship intimacy therapy, and offer supportive guidance, active coaching and collaboration so that you don’t spend your sessions rehashing old fights or falling into old patterns. Instead, our sex therapy for couples is an opportunity to learn more about yourself, your partner/s, and build skills to do things differently in your relationship, while still respecting you as individuals who may have different desires and experiences.
Therapeutic frameworks we use:
Our relationship therapists and couples sex coaches' work draws on several approaches for couples therapy Melbourne sessions:
The Developmental Model of couples therapy - this approach supports partners to manage conflict to learn and be coached by our couples sex therapy online practitioners to express their individual wants, boundaries, thoughts and feelings while also being able to be present and grounded while allowing their partners to express their wants, limits, thoughts and feelings, even if they are hard to hear.
Betty Martin, creator of the Wheel of Consent, supports partners to practice the complexities of consent, giving and receiving of touch and communicating desires and limits.
Somatic Coaching, anatomy education and sexual touch skills
Differences as learning opportunities - because there really is no “normal” when it comes to relationships. Our relationship therapy services support and guide you in cultivating the kind of relationship you want, including learning how to coexist and co-create sustainable pleasure and satisfaction even when differences are present.
Where do we provide couples counselling?
Pleasure Centred Sexology is based in Naarm (Melbourne). Our practice is located at 2 Minona St, Hawthorn. We welcome clients for couples intimacy therapy from surrounding suburbs, such as Hawthorn East, Camberwell, Burnley, Richmond, Toorak, and more. If you cannot attend in-person sessions, we provide online couples sex therapy Melbourne and Victoria-wide.
Book a consultation for sex and relationship therapy Melbourne-wide