I treat impotency and erectile dysfunction through hypnosis.
Hypnotherapy for impotence and erectile dysfunction can be successful if the cause is psychosomatic. Which means it is anxiety or trauma based sometimes out of your conscious awareness.
A sex therapist, naturopath (ANPA) clinical hypnotherapist (AHA) and registered psychotherapist (PACFA) of many decades I take an integrated approach to erectile dysfunction treatment. You may qualify for health-fund rebates.
You can feel safe and comfortable talking about male ED with me as this is what I do for a living.
I am a trained professional here to help you.
Whether you have had treatment before or never spoken about your erectile problems I take a full history and design an individual treatment plan.
Hypnosis in Sex Therapy By Dr Tracie O’Keefe
What is erectile dysfunction?
Have you been suffering from erectile dysfunction?
Are there times when you are having problems with erections in the bedroom?
Did you know much may be done to help you both physically and with hypnotherapy?
Are you looking for a professional sex therapist and hypnotherapist to help you get you erectile function back?
Impotence and Erectile dysfunction is the inability of a male to achieve a penile erection or maintain an erection when desired. It is very common and can be helped.
In fact, it is the number one male medical sexual complaint, particularly in older men.
Yet it is also a problem that men have trouble talking about.
We have a culture that depicts that it never happens to ‘real’ men, which is just silly because it happens to all men at some time.
Dr Tracie O’Keefe speaking on hypnosis at sex at the Australian Hypnotherapy Association symposium 2025
Primary impotence
There is primary impotence when you have never been able to achieve an erection.
In such cases clinical investigation is essential because there could be physiological problems.
Hormonal levels may be insufficient, blood flow may be restricted so it is unable to reach the penis; there may be return valve issues at the base of the penis that usually keep the blood in the penis; problems with hormones; problems with sex initiation hormones in the brain; and psychological problems that may be blocking sexual desire.
Secondary erectile dysfunction
This when you have previously had erections but they seem to have become weaker or failed to happen.
Causes of erectile dysfunction
In such cases clinical investigation is essential because there could be physiological problems.
1. Hormonal levels may be insufficient to initiate the stages of sex arousal so erections fail to take place. Unfortunately, many GPs are not trained how to screen or recognise these levels. So, I may order specific blood profiles.
2. Some people are born with genetics variances which mean they do not fully or sufficiently develop sexual organs. They might even have congenital organ differences like Peyronie’s disease so it painful to have an erection.
3. Physical trauma can also damage the pudendal nerve or blood flow may be restricted through cardio vascular disease or diabetes so it is unable to reach the penis.
4. Disease may lead to vascular failure or blocking of blood vessels.
5. Surgery like prostate removal can sometimes damage nerves needed for erectile function.
6. Nutritional deficient or dependencies may lead to failure in hormonal or neurological activation and this is very common.
7. Iatrogenic causes are when medications like antidepressants, anti-psychotics stimulants like Ritalin cause damage stopping the sexual arousal cycle happening. This may also happen due to environmental chemical poisoning and exposure to heavy metals.
8. Recreational drug use at any time of your life can also cause brain damage leading to ED.
9. Relationship dynamics can also have a large influence on the ability to gain an erection.
10. Psychosomatic causes are a result of psychological thought patens both at conscious and unconscious level interrupting the natural process of erection.
So, when I treat you for erectile failure I screen for all these possibilities.
Dr Tracie O’Keefe DCH presenting on hypnosis for Erectile Dysfunction (ED) at the World Hypnotherapy Conference in 2012. 
Are you aware in our clinic we take an integrated physical and psychological approach?
Since there are many causes of and cures for impotence I make full investigations.
I take a full medical history with erectile dysfunction and may ask you to have tests done.
We have to have a full and clear picture of what we are dealing with to make the proper treatment plan.
Sometimes I prescribe some herbs or make other recommendations particularly nutrition and supplementation. What goes in your mouth is what you become.
I may even refer for medications.
Sometimes I ask for further physiological investigations from specialists.
In cases where there are psychological reasons for erectile dysfunction, I would use sex therapy and hypnotherapy to help change your mindset and allow you to gain or regain erectile function.
Did you know hypnosis reaches deep into the unconscious mind to help change your erectile performance?
Some men may put up mental blocks inside their mind that can stop them from getting an erection.
Perhaps you encountered a less than satisfactory sexual experience and it instills a fear response that you activate each time you encounter a sexual opportunity.
You begin to associate the thought of sex with fear, apprehension, nervousness and the fear of failure and it becomes a vicious cycle that you have been unable to break.
It may have become so bad that you have withdrawn from relationships all together.
Clinical Hypnotherapy treatment of erectile dysfunction
But knowing the cause is not enough.
There must be reprogramming in the way your mind and body works as well as any physical treatment.
As a sex therapist I sometimes have to educated men about sex.
In trance I help your unconscious mind to associate sex with good feeling and rewards once again or sometimes for the first time.
This hypnotic programming can prove very effective both short and long term.
Many techniques can be employed within the clinical environment to provide erectile dysfunction treatment to help you go forward and have a good sex life.
To get help with erectile dysfunction book your sex therapy and hypnotherapy appointment with Dr Tracie O’Keefe DCH by calling 0403 398 303
