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Sex Therapy Dublin 

Psychosexual therapy for sexual issues, desire, performance anxiety, and the difficulties of intimacy

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Sexual Issues Take Many Forms

Sexuality is rarely simple. For some, difficulties arise with arousal, orgasm, or performance. For others, there’s a lack of desire – or a desire that feels unfamiliar, overwhelming, or in conflict with who they believe they should be. Sex can become a source of anxiety, shame, or silence – even in relationships marked by care.

You may struggle with intimacy, feel disconnected from your body, or find yourself acting out in ways you don’t fully understand. For others, there’s no single “problem” – only a quiet sense that something isn’t right.

Sexual issues are often approached as technical or medical problems to be fixed. But we believe they deserve to be understood – not reduced. From a psychoanalytic perspective, sexual symptoms carry meaning. They are not faults, but formations.

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What Causes Sexual Issues?

Sexuality is never just about biology. It is structured by our history, our relationships, and our unconscious life. It’s where identity, pleasure, power, guilt, and vulnerability collide.

Difficulties around sex can arise after trauma, during transitions, or in the absence of any clear cause. They may link to early messages about desire or control. They may relate to deeper conflicts around being wanted, being seen, or expressing need.

We don’t diagnose or pathologise your sexuality. Our work is not based on a fixed programme of behavioural exercises. Instead, we listen carefully to the particular meaning and context of the difficulty, while recognising that medical or practical support may also be important where physical symptoms are involved.

Our counselling & psychotherapy works to listen to what the symptom communicates. 

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Can Therapy for Sexual Issues Help Me?

You don’t need a referral or diagnosis to begin working with us. 

You may be dealing with low desire, compulsive behaviour, vaginismus, or difficulty connecting with a partner. You may feel confused by your sexual identity, disconnected from your body, or unsure what you want.

Whether this has been a quiet discomfort or a crisis point, therapy offers a space to work through it. A space where your experience is not judged, distracted from, or explained away.

Change begins not just by forcing the difficulty to disappear, but by listening to what it might be saying.

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Our Experience with Sex Therapy

Sexual difficulties can touch on far more than sex alone. They may be tied to intimacy, self-image, anxiety, conflict, shame, desire, identity, relationship patterns, or the way a person relates to themselves and to others.

At the Other clinic, sexual issues are part of our ordinary clinical work. Our therapists are qualified, masters-trained psychotherapists, each with at least five years of relevant clinical experience. The therapists practising at the clinic bring more than 330 years of combined clinical experience.

This work often includes low desire, performance anxiety, erectile difficulties, vaginismus, compulsive sexual behaviour, difficulties with arousal or orgasm, fear of intimacy, sexual shame, or a sense of disconnection from the body.

We treat each person as singular. Our approach to sex therapy is psychologically informed, non-judgemental, and attentive to the deeper context in which a difficulty has taken shape.

Psychoanalytically informed therapy in Dublin.

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Sexual Performance Anxiety Therapy
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Erectile Dysfunction Therapy
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Low Libido Counselling
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Intimacy Issues Therapy
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Written & clinically reviewed by: Colin McDonnell — MA, MA, BA, APPI, ICP, M.Ps.S.I.
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist & Clinic Director

Last updated: May 2026