Our team of modern sex and relationship therapists are passionate about their work and are regular media contributors.

Our Founder, Miranda Christophers, has been involved in TV and Radio including BBC Radio 4 Women’s Hour, You, Me and the Big C Podcast, and Made in Chelsea. She writes and contributes regularly to articles including Metro, The Times, The Guardian, The Mirror, Huffpost, Women’s Health, Reader’s Digest, Cosmopolitan and GQ and is an expert advisor for Issviva Menopause on Sex and Relationships. She regularly attends events as a guest speaker.

Our team include therapists who are educators, writers, speakers, researchers and medical professionals – many of whom are available as media contributors for tv, radio, podcasts, magazine and newspapers.

“Some of the most common reasons women experience a low libido are the pressures of juggling busy lives, how they feel about themselves – including their body confidence – and the quality of their relationships. It’s also about whether they’re able to access the kind of sexual intimacy they enjoy and whether the conditions are right for their desire to develop. Feeling relaxed, confident and able to enjoy the kind of sex they actually want are all important foundations for desire.”  Miranda Christophers

Couples tend to quietly stop reaching for each other. Sex and relationship psychotherapist Miranda Christophers, who is founder of The Therapy Yard, said it’s something she sees a lot. “People often say it happens after children or where other work/life aspects take priority,” she told HuffPost UK. “They may describe themselves as living more like housemates/friends.”

Miranda Christophers advises taking time to explore pleasure in a relaxed, “unrushed” way. “Focusing in experiences that are pleasurable and noticing sensation and feelings without any pressure to meet orgasm can enable you to enjoy an experience in the way you can”

‘For many women, the conditions need to feel right for arousal and desire to kick in, as opposed to being spontaneous or unprompted,’ says sex and relationships psychotherapist Miranda Christophers.

Ever wondered what the most common reason people book to see one is? Well, you’re in luck, because we sat down with Miranda Christophers, founder of The Therapy Yard, who describes herself as a ‘sex-positive and kink-informed’ sex and relationships therapist.

Miranda says some of her clients can find talking about sex and their sexual preferences awkward, but that games can ‘give the opportunity to keep things light, playful and offer space for discovery.’

Miranda Christophers, a sex and relationship therapist, often hears from clients in couples that they are simply too busy to have sex. “They don’t have as much sex because there’s just not enough time. Economic, political pressures and worries that people have – I think these can all intrude on pleasure.”

“Everyone responds to trauma differently, but an avoidance of sex is something I commonly hear from clients,” Miranda Christophers, a sex and relationships psychotherapist, tells me.

Think only men suffer performance anxiety, your libido is set in stone or porn destroys intimacy? Experts debunk the most common misconceptions about your sex life.

To better understand what sex therapy actually entails, Yahoo UK spoke with College of Sexual and Relationship Therapists (COSRT) accredited psychosexual and relationship therapist Miranda Christophers.

“It’s important to ask questions to get to know someone you are interested in dating, as it allows you to find out more about them, shows genuine interest, and can help to build conversation, rapport, connection, enjoyment, understanding, and trust,” says relationship psychotherapist Miranda Christophers.

One of the most common presentations I see, regardless of age, is a desire discrepancy – a mismatch in sexual desire,” says Christophers, a sex and relationship psychotherapist, co-founder and clinical director of The Therapy Yard.

“Priorities tend to change when people have children, especially in the early years as the needs of the children are so great that much time and energy is spent on tending to them,” Miranda Christophers, founder of The Therapy Yard, told HuffPost UK.

Sex and relationships psychotherapist Miranda Christophers agrees that communication is key when you’ve entered the roommate phase. “Talking about things so that you are on the same page can make it easier to start to make changes,” she tells HuffPost UK.

How people split the load may indicate a broader dynamic in the relationship. For example, what happens when one does not pick up theirs as agreed? Or what if one has an increased workload elsewhere? How they navigate this within the relationship says a lot,” says relationship therapist Miranda Christophers.

This year has been a huge win for queer visibility and understanding, yet some bisexual women report feeling at a standstill when it comes to stigma, judgment and dodgy comments. Here, bi-women share the frustrating things they’re tired of hearing.

“Sexual currency creates a current or charge between partners,” says Miranda Christophers, a sex and relationships psychotherapist and clinical director at The Therapy Yard. Most importantly, it builds “an intimate bond and connection between sexual partners in a way that differs from relationships with others.” Not having enough of it can dampen your sexual confidence and desire.

Sex and relationship psychotherapist Miranda Christophers agrees the focus needs to be on “pleasure, not pressure”. “This could be thinking about what you find sexually interesting or pleasurable, or perhaps thinking about the context of when you last experienced sexual desire or arousal.

‘Menopause has a physical effect on your vagina. It will probably become drier and be more sensitive, so you might experience painful sex’, says Miranda Christophers, a psychosexual and relationship therapist, plus proud ambassador for menopause platform Issviva.

Most people will experience a loss of sexual desire at some point in their life, be it due to parenthood, a health condition, hormonal changes, grief or other reasons. But how can you overcome this? Sex therapists and educators share the secrets to getting your mojo back.

Recent research, such as a study published in Scientific Reports, found that those who regularly use cognitive reappraisal skills – in other words, take time to interpret their feelings – around sex have heightened sexual desire and the effects were found to be particularly strong among women.

A study suggests men can train erectile function simply by having more erections. More erections mean more fibroblasts and fibroblasts matter. Here’s why.

We’re spoilt for choice when it comes to sex toys and there really is something to suit almost any need. But what is it that makes the rose this good? We asked psychosexual and relationship psychotherapist Miranda Christophers for her expert opinion.

We spoke with Miranda Christophers, a sex and relationships expert at Issviva, an online menopause platform about this and she said, “I have found that year on year there is an increasing number of people in the 65-85+ age group accessing therapy to explore how they can maintain, reignite or start a new sexual relationship.”

This Pride month, we speak to a sex and relationships therapist about how to fully explore your queer identity when you’re coupled up.

Sexual desire ebbs and flows. There might be times when you’re feeling a lack of sex drive or low libido, which might make you feel confused, distressed, or even, sadly,…

Covid was such a passion killer that we now have sex twice a month, down from three pre-pandemic, with experts blaming a decline in social mixing and higher levels of stress

Remi Pennington, 60, put her painful sex down to her long-distance relationship. She later realised it was due to changes amid the menopause and wants more women to talk about…

If you’re in a monogamous relationship, learning that your partner wants to join the adult content platform might spark anxiety – here’s some advice on how to navigate it.

The human senses play a key role when it comes to love and attraction. They gather information to be interpreted by our brain, in order to identify if we are attracted…

‘One of the hardest things with mental health is when you feel you are struggling alone,’ says Miranda.

With many going back to school, uni and work after the summer, or perhaps starting somewhere new, some may be experiencing separation anxiety. While new beginnings or returning can be exciting, it can also be a time of anxiety or apprehension …….

“There’s this idea that you’ll have friends, but a life partner—or what might be deemed a romantic partner—will become primary over that. The idea with a platonic life partner is that,…

Between pre-date jitters and trying to find the perfect outfit, you might not give loads of thought to what sort of first date questions you should ask. But it’s worth…

Miranda Christophers, sex and relationship psychotherapist, says that polysexuality is ‘usually distinguished by an attraction to three or more gender identities’. But which gender identities those are will vary from…

Compulsive porn use is a problem far more commonly associated with men: at the Laurel Centre – a leading UK-based sex and porn addiction service – 95% of enquiries come from…

Bloomingdales is the latest mainstream retailer to cater for ‘self-love’ – another sign that society’s attitude towards sex is changing. Forget yoga, meditation or wild swimming. The booming wellbeing trend of…

Sexual desire might increase or decrease depending on how a person feels in themselves, how they feel towards their partner, or as a result of life events and changes, says Christophers.

Last Friday night, my friend Amy* and I were at a pub-garden table eating fish and chips. We hadn’t seen each other for over six months because of Covid-19 restrictions, and…

I am often asked why people are unfaithful, how it can be prevented or whether a relationship can recover from it. There are many assumptions around infidelity, but the reasons…

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