{"id":7,"date":"2026-09-18T00:48:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T00:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harborhopeofvirginia.com\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2026-10-21T00:23:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T00:23:19","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/harborhopeofvirginia.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychotherapy Services"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What Is Sex Therapy?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sex therapy is a specialized form of talk-therapy aimed at helping people reach psychosexual health by addressing the physical, psychological, and relational aspects of sexual functioning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Common goals addressed in sex therapy include<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">*Healing from psychological trauma and coping with post-traumatic stress symptoms, such as feeling detached from one&#8217;s body and having difficulty showing affection, feeling unsafe and having trouble trusting others\/sharing wants and needs, feeling shame and fearing abandonment from intimate partners, and having trauma memories triggered during intimacy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">*Treating sexual dysfunction or coping with a partner&#8217;s sexual dysfunction, such as low or high sexual interest\/arousal, pain during sex, premature or delayed ejaculation, and difficulty having an erection or orgasm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">*Refraining from unhealthy\/harmful sexual behaviors, such as past sex offending, sexual risk-taking that causes distress, or pornography use that interferes with daily living<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">*Coping with the impact of current or anticipated life changes\/events, such as pregnancy, menopause, and medical illness\/injury\/disease,  can have on intimacy, sexual functioning, and relationships<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Is Sex Therapy? Sex therapy is a specialized form of talk-therapy aimed at helping people reach psychosexual health by addressing the physical, psychological, and relational aspects of sexual functioning. Common goals addressed in sex therapy include *Healing from psychological trauma and coping with post-traumatic stress symptoms, such as feeling detached from one&#8217;s body and <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/harborhopeofvirginia.com\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harborhopeofvirginia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harborhopeofvirginia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harborhopeofvirginia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harborhopeofvirginia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harborhopeofvirginia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/harborhopeofvirginia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144,"href":"https:\/\/harborhopeofvirginia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harborhopeofvirginia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}