Strengthening Connection Beyond Words
Intimacy is a core part of many relationships — a way of expressing love, trust, vulnerability, and connection. When something shifts in the physical or emotional bond between partners, it can feel confusing, isolating, or even painful.
Sometimes it’s about sex. Sometimes it’s about feeling distant, unseen, or emotionally disconnected. Often, it’s both.
At MapleTree Psychotherapy Center in Dubai, we offer compassionate, confidential Therapy for individuals and couples facing challenges around intimacy and sexual wellness. We create a safe space where you can talk openly about the things that often go unspoken — without shame, pressure, or judgment.
What We Explore Together
Sex and intimacy concerns are often layered — connected to stress, life transitions, emotional injuries, cultural expectations, body image, or unresolved relational patterns. Therapy can help you:
- Open conversations around intimacy in a way that feels respectful and safe
- Address differences in sexual desire, needs, or preferences between partners
- Understand how emotional disconnection impacts physical intimacy (and vice versa)
- Navigate intimacy concerns after childbirth, illness, or life transitions
- Explore the emotional impact of sexual difficulties, such as erectile issues, low libido, or performance anxiety
- Heal from past relational or sexual trauma that may be affecting current relationships
- Rebuild trust, playfulness, and emotional closeness at your own pace
We understand that intimacy is more than just physical connection. It’s about emotional safety, shared vulnerability, and the courage to be fully seen. Ultimately, our aim is to help you move toward a sexual and intimate life that feels vibrant, fulfilling, and deeply your own — beyond the struggles.
Our Therapeutic Approach
Our psychotherapists take a relational, emotionally attuned, and educational approach that involves:
- Comprehensive Assessment – Initial sessions focus on understanding your sexual history, relationships dynamics, wellbeing, and therapy goals.
- Open, Respectful Conversations – We provides a safe, non-judgmental space to talk about sexual experiences, concerns, and desires.
- Common Issues Addressed – ranging from low or mismatched libido, painful sex, erectile dysfunction or premature ejaculation, difficulty with orgasms and communication, performance anxiety, recovery from sexual trauma.
- Individual or Couple Sessions – depending on the nature of the concern.
- Psychological and Emotional Support – To identify and navigate mental health and relational factors (e.g., anxiety, shame, trauma, attachment) that impact sexuality.
- Practical Strategies and Exercises – strategies and exercises are suggested and encouraged, related to communication skills, body awareness, mindfulness, sensate focus, and education about anatomy and arousal.
- Multidisciplinary Teamwork – Our therapists collaborate with physicians, gynecologists, urologists, or physiotherapists to address medical concerns
We use a broad range of evidence-based interventions to meet the needs of each individual and couple. Therapy goes at a pace that is both respectful and necessary — grounded in what you want to explore, and when. No pressure. No assumptions. Just a steady, informed presence to support your path.
Who We Support
We work with:
- Couples navigating sexual challenges, emotional distance, or changes in intimacy
- Individuals seeking to understand their own relationship with sex, vulnerability, or connection
- Expats and multicultural couples in Dubai, where cultural, religious, or identity-based expectations around intimacy may add complexity
- People healing from trauma, body image struggles, or medical conditions that impact sexual well-being
Our team offers therapy in English, Arabic, Hindi, Urdu, French, Farsi, and Finnish, ensuring you can speak about these personal topics in a language you’re comfortable with.
Ready to Reconnect?
You deserve a relationship where intimacy feels safe, fulfilling, and emotionally rich — not stressful, confusing, or painful. If you’re ready to begin, you can Meet Our Team, Find a Therapist, or Contact Us to schedule a session.
It’s never just about sex. It’s about connection — and it’s never too late to find your way back to it.
