Sex Therapy Psychotherapists in Toronto

Sex therapy is a talking treatment for sexual difficulties. Those include desire, arousal, pain, difficulty reaching orgasm, or a mismatch between partners.

It usually combines education with exercises done at home. One of them is sensate focus, which separates touch from any expectation of performance ¹.

People come alone or with a partner. It is not a physical examination.

A practitioner may suggest you also see a doctor where there could be a physical cause. Ask what training a practitioner has in this work.

Everyone on this page describes their work as psychotherapy. A psychotherapist works through talking with you about your thoughts, feelings and behaviours.

Psychotherapy usually runs longer than counselling and aims for clinical change. It works on patterns that repeat rather than on one current problem.

A psychotherapist trains in psychological treatment rather than in medicine. What that training covers, and which approach a practitioner uses, differ between practitioners. Ask which approach a psychotherapist trained in, and how long they usually work.

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Downtown Clinics. Phone +1 416 535 8501. An official CAMH resource says OHIP covers outpatient psychotherapy given in hospital. Adults living in the Toronto catchment areas CAMH publishes can enter by referral through Access CAMH.

Titles you will see include Registered Psychotherapist and psychothérapeute. The protected title is Registered Psychotherapist.

In Canada there is no national register: each province and territory licenses under its own law.

See the Canada page.