You still feel guilt, stress, or shame about sex. You might not be able to relax and sex may hurt, which can drive more shame and guilt. Littleton Couples Counseling offers religious sexual trauma counseling in Arvada and can help bring comfort, safety, and healing to your life. Connection , communication , intimacy , and sex are the core of our human experience.
Littleton Couples Counseling believes in a holistic approach to brain-body mental and emotional health, understanding that the body remembers events and feelings long after the mind has forgotten.
We even have a gynecologist in residence to assist with female sexual health. Our psychiatric nurse practitioner is fully-versed in ADHD and provides our clients with medication management. Our providers are kink-positive , poly-positive , and swinger-positive and work from a position of judgment-free therapy and shame-free therapy. Littleton Couples Counseling clinicians understand and work with trauma, sexual trauma, religious trauma , religious sexual trauma , and faith crisis counseling and are sensitive to the beliefs of individual faiths and cultures.
These messages, reinforced through youth and into young adulthood, demand that our natural sexual urges and bodily sensations will lead us to hell teaches us to distrust, repress, and demonize our sexual selves. Religion warns us to avoid popular music, television, movies, and the internet that indoctrinate us that sex is something we should engage in now.
You may feel additional shame and alienation from your partner due to your internal conflict and doubt that you may suffer from religious sexual trauma because you were never physically abused in the church. This unwanted religious sexual dysfunction brings stress to the most important of intimate relationships that may continue or exacerbate the pain, guilt, and shame you learned in your youth. You feel shame or guilt when you think about, desire, or experience sexual pleasure.
