What is Sexual Grounding Therapy?
Sexual Grounding Therapy is an effective form of psychological self-development rooted in experiential body-psychotherapy in a group format. It was developed in the early 1990s by Willem Poppeliers, a Dutch developmental psychologist and body-psychotherapist, and the principal trainer. Sexual Grounding Therapy is based on Poppeliers’ pragmatic theory, and is an innovative approach to systemic, body-oriented depth psychology and sexual therapy. It offers a missing piece to many psychotherapeutic methods, since it deals in a clear, direct and pure way with all delicate issues around sexuality and relationships.
"Sexual Grounding Therapy aims to win back for future generations the nature-given right to full sexual expression, without the distortions and extreme hedonism practised in today's world."
Willem Poppeliers
(founder of Sexual Grounding Therapy)
What is different about Sexual Grounding Therapy?
Sexual Grounding Therapy follows Freud in considering the primal life force to be sexual, but goes beyond his original pioneering work by charting precisely how sexual energy unfolds during a person's lifetime. In particular, it provides a framework for realising how being born into the world of one's parents relationship (known in Sexual Grounding Therapy as ‘The Triangle') and cultural context can impede the proper flow of this energy. Sexual Grounding Therapy offers a way to regain healthy sexual functioning, based on a model of psychosexual development and maturation, spanning an individual's life, from birth to death.
