Understanding Women’s Desire: Intimacy and a Nonliner Sexual Response Model in High-Achieving Lives
Women’s desire does not always arrive spontaneously. For high-achieving women and couples in Palo Alto, Atherton, Los Altos Hills, and surrounding Silicon Valley communities, Basson’s sexual response model offers a way to understand low libido, sexual pain, and intimacy challenges—emphasizing context, safety, and relational connection over expectation.
Healing Vaginismus: EMDR and the BeTogether Approach
Vaginismus treatment in Palo Alto combining EMDR and the BeTogether Approach addresses both the involuntary muscle response and underlying trauma. Learn how therapy helps reconnect with the body and resolve pain.
When Love Is Present But Desire Isn't: Navigating Sexual Shutdown in Relationships
Desire discrepancy—when one partner is sexually shut off while still deeply in love—is one of the most common and confusing issues couples face. This isn't about attraction fading or relationship problems. It's often about disconnection from one's own body, the weight of obligation, and a nervous system that has learned sex means pressure rather than pleasure. Through clinical examples and therapeutic insight, this article explores how reconnecting with oneself, establishing genuine boundaries, and creating safety for both yes and no allows authentic desire to emerge naturally. For individuals and couples in Palo Alto, Los Altos Hills, Atherton, and throughout the Bay Area navigating mismatched libidos, therapy can help rebuild the foundation from which connection and desire arise.
Navigating Perinatal Trauma: The Role of Sex Therapy in Couples' Healing
Perinatal trauma, encompassing experiences such as miscarriage, stillbirth, premature birth, or difficult childbirth, can deeply affect couples, both individually and within their relationship dynamics.