Full Course Description

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Erotic Recovery for Low-Sex & No-Sex Couples: Tammy Nelson's step-by-step training course

Program Information

Objectives

1. Analyze core interventions for renewing desire, reviewing strategies for low desire couples.
2. Analyze treatment strategies and learn current paradigms for relationships with no sex couples.
3. Analyze how sexual and couple’s therapy can help with past, and underlying causes for sexless relationships.
4. Analyze the integrative cognitive, relational and physical issues that cause desire disorders and how they manifest in relationships.
5. Assess for sexual traumas and integrate treatment priorities in a treatment plan focused on increasing desire.
6. Assess how relaxation, sexual empathy and erotic recovery help to heal low sex and no sex relationships.
7. Analyze at least three types of pleasure resistance; pleasure avoidance, denial, and rejection and how these lead to sexual discrepancies.
8. Determine how control, betrayal, trust and identity issues affect eroticism in sexual partnerships.
9. Determine treatment interventions for arousal dysfunction due to affairs and other betrayals.
10. Evaluate erotic recovery, sexual empathy, and monogamy agreements as healing strategies.
11. Determine how to create an erotic recovery plan as a psychotherapeutic treatment plan and intervention.

Outline

• Session 1: Introduction: How Desire is Lost & Found
• Session 2: Stage One: Reducing Denial
• Session 3: Stage Two: Reframing Resistance (Part 1)
• Session 4: Stage Two: Reframing Resistance (Part 2)
• Session 5: Stage Three: Reimaging Aversion (Part 1)
• Session 6: Stage Three: Reimaging Aversion (Part 2)
• Session 7: Stage Four: Recreating Relationship (Part 1)
• Session 8: Stage Four: Recreating Relationship (Part 2)

Target Audience

• Psychologists
• Physicians
• Addiction Counselors
• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Nurses
• Other Behavioral Health Professionals

Copyright : 11/01/2019

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The Rules of the New Monogamy: The Changing Face of Committed Relationships

More couples today than ever before are negotiating their monogamy in new and creative ways, including open marriage, polyamory, group marriages, transgender relationships, and a variety of intentional partnerships. As therapists, we need to understand these new developments, the challenges they bring, and the skills required of us to remain open and aware of our own triggers when addressing them. In this workshop, you’ll explore:

• How to help clients develop a code of integrity that will define their monogamy and develop their own unique shared definition of honesty, even if it involves a departure from traditional sexual fidelity
• How to coach clients on negotiating flexible monogamy arrangements as well as how to renegotiate a new one after infidelity

Why open marriages work for some and fail for others—and how to identify the early problem signs and help couples recover when the arrangement isn’t working

 

Program Information

Target Audience

Psychologists, Physicians, Addiction Counselors, Counselors, Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, and other Behavioral Health Professionals

Outline

1. Creating the New Monogamy Agreement
   1. The Explict and Implicit Agreement
   2. Renegotiating Rules of Monogamy Through Developmental Stages
   3. The Momogamy Continuum
   4. Thoughts
   5. Fantasy
   6. Desires
   7. Arousal
   8. Flirtation
   9. Emotions
   10. Action
   11. Connection
   12. Sex
   13. Love
   14. Detachment
2. The New Normal
   1. Eroticism and Companionship
   2. What Couples Want May Be Changing
3. Components of an Affair
   1. The Outside Emotional Relationship
   2. The Dishonesty
   3. The Sexual Relationship
4. Steps in Recovery
   1. Creating Understanding
   2. Renegotiate Agreements
   3. Initiate Erotic Recovery
   4. Empathy in Recovery
5. Two Elements in Couple Relationships
   1. Business of Relationship
   2. Sexual Aspects
6. Create A New Vision of The Relationship
   1. Through Exploration and Discussion with Couples
   2. Outline for Both the New Vision of the Future
   3. Creating Agreement over Accepted Behaviors

Objectives

• Determine how to help clients develop a code of integrity that will define their monogamy and develop their own unique shared definition of honesty, even if it involves a departure from traditional sexual fidelity
• Demonstrate how to coach clients on negotiating flexible monogamy arrangements as well as how to renegotiate a new one after infidelity
• Analyze why open marriages work for some and fail for others—and how to identify the early problem signs and help couples recover when the arrangement isn’t working

Copyright : 03/24/2017

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