Efficacy of Emotion-Focused Couple Therapy Training with Regard to Increasing Sexual Satisfaction among Couples

The present study was carried out to determine the efficacy of emotion-focused couple therapy training with regard to sexual satisfaction among couples. The sample population was drawn from the couples referred to the private & governmental counseling centers of Shiraz, having been married for at least one year & maximum 10 years, out of which 16 couples (32 individuals) who had scored below average in "marital satisfaction questionnaire" were randomly selected & assigned to experiment & control groups. The experiment group then attended ten one-hour-&-thirty-minute emotion-focused couple therapy sessions. Results support the effectiveness of emotion-focused interventions in increasing couple's sexual satisfaction, additionally, this efficacy was more observed among women rather than men.