Joan Marsman M.Sc.Individual, Couple, Sex Therapy Helping individuals for over 20 years to develop more satisfying and more passionate relationships.Joan's practice serves Toronto, Mississauga and Oakville.
Phone: (416)
766-8982
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Individual Therapy for a wide range of concerns to explore and replace patterns of living that are not in your plan for yourself.
·depression
·anxiety
·stress
·self-esteem
·body image
·childhood sexual abuse
Couple / Relationship Therapy provides an opportunity to restore and enhance positive ways of relating.
·communication
·conflict resolution
·parenting
·separation/divorce
·Intimacy
Sex Therapy to allow you to celebrate and express your sexuality.
·low sexual desire,
·sexual dissatisfaction,
·painful intercourse
·orgasm difficulties
·erectile
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Joan Marsman creates a compassionate and respectful environment for her clients to discuss their concerns and difficulties. He approach is inclusive to men, women, heterosexual, gay, lesbian and transgender people. Her ability to speak comfortably about sexual issues with people who are distressed about their relationships or their sexual functioning provides a unique opportunity to be heard and treated in a professional manner.
Joan holds a Master of Science degree from the University of Guelph where she specialized in studies related to Human Sexuality and Family Planning. Joan is a Clinical Member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (www.aamft.org)and the Ontario Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (www.oamft.on.ca) She is a registered member of the Board of Examiners of Sex Therapists and Counsellors in Ontario (www.bestco.info) Top
Sex therapy is a unique specialty in the field of counselling and psychotherapy.
It can involve a range of therapeutic interventions and processes to initiate, restore and enrich both the individual's and/or the sexual components of an intimate relationship.
Sex Therapy is typically short-term therapy and goal-focused. During the initial session you will be invited to share you own interpretation of why you are seeking sex therapy. To help formulate interventions you will be invited to share your sexual history, reflect on your sexual past and to explore what being sexual means for you. Together we will work towards the goals you have set for yourself and your relationship through counselling and out of session assignments. Top
1. In Canoe an article by David Chilton special to The Toronto Sun comments:
Toronto's Joan Marsman runs a private practice as well as women's workshops on sexual fulfilment. Her background is psychology and family studies. She graduated with a BA from McMaster University in Hamilton and an master of science from the University of Guelph.
"You need good basic training in counselling and therapy," says sex therapist Joan Marsman.
2. In Toronto, sex therapist Joan Marsman says women are coming in with their male partners wondering why they are withdrawing instead of building intimacy now that they have more time and money. Marsman says it's very validating for women to know that there may be a physical cause to their partner's attitude. However, she cautions, not all middle-age malaise can be blamed on male menopause. "Is it because he doesn't have enough testosterone and he tries to answer it with another lover, or is it really a change-of-life issue?" After all, hitting middle age often means that people with normal hormones take stock and wonder if what they have been doing for the past 25 years is what they want to continue to do for the next 25.
"Is Your Husband Going Through Menopause?" From the Alternative Medical Network, Reprinted from HOMEMAKERS.COM, March 22, 2003, By Georgie Binks
3. Joan Marsman,
a Toronto couples and sex therapist, explains: "In a patriarchal
society, women's fertility and sexuality has always been controlled.
Males dealt with the business of procreation that way, seeing older
women past child-bearing as
no longer useful, therefore they were pushed aside or discarded. So
even today's older women have grown up with the message they aren't
supposed to be sexual."
But, thankfully for the aging population, such indoctrination is
fading and replaced by the realization that sexual desire and
activity for older women is normal, natural and should be enjoyed,
whether they're single or attached.
"Women must understand
they're a sexual being throughout their life and learn to welcome
sexual feelings rather than repress them," says Marsman.
In: "When
desire ages" by Valerie Gibson of Sun
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Office Location in Toronto |
New! Beginning May 2005 |
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Bloor West Village
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Fe/Male Health Centre Tel: 905-338-3130 |
My standard fee is $110.00/hour. Some extended health benefits cover the fees of Registered Marriage and Family Therapists (RMFTs).
. You may be interested in Guelph Sexuality conference and a preconference workshop on Guided Self Healing. Info is available at www.open.uoguelph.ca/sexconf.
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The mission of the West Toronto Counselling Network is is to contribute to the emotional, social and spiritual well-being of all those we serve and to provide marital couples, individuals and family with excellence in services, including: career counselling, individual, marriage, couple and family therapy, psychological assessment and psychotherapy, sex therapy, grief counselling, life transition support. We are a network of independent professionals in private practice, serving the GTA communities of Mississauga, Oakville, Brampton and Toronto. The West Toronto Counseling network also includes: Douglas Schmidt, B.A., M.Ed., Ed.D., Don Moncrieff, Ph.D., Joan Marsman M.Sc., Margotte Kaczanowska, M.A., S.T.S.R. , R.S.W., William Cooke, MSW, RSW, M.Div., Gwen Schauerte, M.Ed.,
