Out of Sync: Why Couples Fight When Desire Doesn't Match

Mismatched Desire in Relationships: How couples can talk about different sex drives without turning each other into the problem.

Maryam Moazzami brings work with individual and couples therapy under supervision as a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) to the sex and relationship conflict that couples often misread as rejection. She focuses on romantic relationships, couple conflict, and desire discrepancies, where different levels of desire can turn into a fight about the whole relationship. Most couples try to decide who is right, but she reframes the problem as how partners speak about sex before blame takes over. Listeners leave with language for discussing mismatched desire without making either partner the problem.

About Maryam

Maryam, podcast guest

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Maryam Moazzami is a therapist and Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) in Canada whose work focuses on mental health, sex and relationships, and couples therapy. She supports individual adults and couples through therapy, including work around romantic relationship dynamics, couple conflict, desire discrepancies, grief, depression, ADHD, anxiety, trauma, and women’s mental health topics such as fertility, menopause, prenatal, postnatal, and postpartum experiences.

Maryam brings a strong academic and clinical foundation to conversations about therapy and relationships. Her background includes a Master of Psychology in Clinical and Counselling Psychology, a Master of Public Health, and supervised clinical experience across multiple therapy and assessment settings. Her LinkedIn profile lists experience providing therapy for individual adults, adolescents, children, and couples, as well as comprehensive psychodiagnostic and psycho-educational assessments under psychologist supervision.

For podcast hosts, Maryam can offer thoughtful, evidence-conscious conversations about how people relate, communicate, cope, and seek support. She is especially interested in romantic relationships, couples’ conflict, desire differences, and the mental health concerns that often intersect with intimacy, life transitions, grief, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and trauma. She is also attentive to citing sources and presenting clinical ideas responsibly, making her a grounded guest for hosts who want accessible but careful conversations about therapy, relationships, and mental health.

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