Lesbian Sex Therapist VS Lesbian Sex Coach
So you’re ready to star your sexual healing journey, and you’re wondering if you need a Lesbian/ LGBTQ+ Sex Therapist or Lesbian Sex Coach to guide you.
Lesbian Sex Therapists and Lesbian Sex Coaches both share a similar goal of improving sexual wellbeing and satisfaction, but they take different paths to get there.
Let’s talk about the differences so you can decide the right path for you.
Lesbian Sex Therapist
Therapists, including Lesbian Sex Therapists, come from a mental health background. They seek to understand the deeper why behind the sexual struggles.
Lesbian Sex Coach
Within the coaching field, Lesbian Sex Coaches can vary greatly in focus, training, and expertise.
Rather than spending a lot of time understanding the past, Lesbian Sex Coaches focus on the present and future, helping you build practical skills to bring into your sex and relationships.
Also, Lesbian Sex Coaches typically do not accept insurance.
Boundaries
Lesbian Sex Therapists work under a specific code of conduct, prohibiting touching clients or seeing them outside the office.
Some Lesbian Sex Coaches, however, offer practice dates, meeting clients outside the office to practice dating skills.
Also, coaches may practice touch with their clients (with consent of course). For example, a client may struggle with touching a partner without feeling awkward. The Lesbian Sex Coach may invite the client to touch their arm, and offer feedback on how to make the touch more enjoyable, as well as helping the client stay present in their own body, and learn to read the body language of the person they are touching.
Not all Lesbian Sex Coaches offer this, but as a whole, the boundaries of coaching are different than in clinical therapy.
What’s best for you?
If you don’t understand why you’re struggling in sex and relationships, you may benefit from gaining more insight into your mind and behaviors through Lesbian Sex Therapy. This is enough for some people to help their sexual struggles.
There are many people who have tried traditional talk therapy for their sexual issues and found little improvement.
Others report working with a Lesbian Sex Therapist helped them understand where their struggles came from, but they still feel disconnected from their bodies.
If this sounds like you, you may benefit from a more experiential approach, meaning less talking and learning through doing.
You can see some alternative sexual healing approaches in action if you watch “Sex, Love, & Goop” on Netflix.
Ultimately, the choice of a guide on your sexual healing journey is not one to make lightly. Talk to several different practitioners to see what feels right to you.
As a Queer Somatic Sexologist + Trauma Specialist in Denver, Colorado, my hands-on approach to sexual healing and sexual awakening may resonate if you’ve hit a dead end in your sexual healing journey with traditional methods.
