Johanina sees individuals and couples who wish to explore issues related to sexuality in her Petaluma and San Francisco offices.
Have you given up on sex? Are you concerned that aging, lack of desire, hormonal changes, inability to orgasm, or inability to become erect might make sex an impossibility? Do you think you have been too wounded in the past or are too emotionally distant and disconnected from your partner to ever have great soul-satisfying sex again?
Whatever your age, shape, sexual preferences, personal history, or lack of hormones, sexual fulfillment is attainable. Often what is missing is being in touch with real desire – not the hormonally driven kind that fades over time and during stress, but the desire for connection with your partner and with what is meaningful and fulfilling in your life. You may need help connecting with real desire and translating it into the kind of sex that keeps getting better.
Satisfaction in sex and fulfillment in love, life and work are interconnected. I view sex as a metaphor for our lives. Look at other dimensions of your life and you’ll probably see similarities to what’s happening (or not happening) in your sex life. Therefore, I address issues concerning sex from an interconnected psychological, sexological, relational, and energetic perspective. I am interested in how your past is being played out in the present, but I am even more interested in how you can reconnect with your capacity for pleasure, intimacy, and connection.
In our work together I will help you to identify and overcome the obstacles to enjoying a truly fulfilling sex and love life. As a long time student and teacher of Tantra and multicultural sacred sexuality, I offer sex- and relationship-coaching sessions as is appropriate and desired. Tantra and sacred sexuality offer a way to explore the sacred dimensions of the loving embrace. At any age, but particularly as people age and sex becomes less hormonally driven, the sensual orientation of sacred sex practices helps to expand and deepen your sexual repertoire and your sensual and emotional experience.
For those who are not in relationships, I occasionally refer to a professional surrogate partner who teaches the hands-on healing and learning component. Clients work alternately with the surrogate partner who is supervised by me. I have worked with and trained sex surrogates since 1996.
The following are some of the issues I address in sessions that focus on sexuality and sexual relationship:
- conditioned beliefs, behaviors, and family patterns
- trauma, abuse, addictive behaviors
- male sexual dysfunction
- female sexual issues
- fertility, pregnancy, post-childbirth
- aging
- communication
- loss of desire
- sacred sex practices
- lack of desire
- sexual incompatibility
- orgasm issues
- fertility, childbirth
- loss of trust
- affairs
- aging
- open relationships
- gender issues
- sexual inexperience
“I have worked in close conjunction with Johanina on many of our mutual clients and refer to her for her integrity, strength of character, and very special and sensitive therapy.”
– Robert Oliver, MD (Ob-Gyn), PhD, sex therapist
