Existential Sex Therapy

An Existential, Meaning-Centered Approach to Sex Therapy for Women

Forthcoming, Manuscript Complete

This book offers a depth-oriented framework for understanding women’s sexual concerns as meaningful responses rather than dysfunctions to be corrected. Drawing on existential psychotherapy, phenomenology and contemporary sex therapy, it reframes issues such as low desire, sexual shutdown, anxiety and relational distance as expressions of identity, freedom, belonging and fear of isolation.

Rather than emphasizing techniques or symptom management, the book invites clinicians to listen for what sexual symptoms are protecting, organizing, or communicating within a woman’s lived world. Clinical reasoning is made explicit throughout, showing how therapists discern timing, readiness and meaning without collapsing complexity into advice or protocol.

Written for clinicians, Existential Sex Therapy positions sex therapy as a second-phase, meaning-oriented practice for those open to exploring sexual life as a site of selfhood, responsibility and becoming.