Full Course Description

Introduction

Program Information

Objectives

Differentiate the three ways to define Sex therapy and relationship therapy and how they apply to treatment outcomes.
Apply effective tools of cognitive behavior therapy and systems theory to treatment strategy.
Assess countertransference in the almost-never-talked-about conflicts around sex and relationship therapy in order to measure its effectiveness with clients.
Apply treatment interventions for a couple for low sex and sexless marriage.
Analyze the desire and arousal discrepancy and measure their impact on satisfaction in relationships.
Demonstrate the ability to measure and implement erotic recovery and sexual empathy techniques with couples.
Apply the relational paradigm and utilize it in treatment planning.
Utilize reflective dialogue for Relationship Therapy and apply this behavioral intervention to decrease symptoms of stress in a marriage.
Conduct the Psychobiological Approach to relationship therapy and be able to apply clinical interventions in a session.
Distinguish betrayal, trauma and infidelity dilemmas and utilize the specific behavioral interventions to decrease symptoms in couples therapy.
Develop new monogamy agreements and utilized them to inform treatment interventions.
Evaluate interventions used with a couple creating a new vision for their recovery and justify how this informs treatment outcomes.
Demonstrate measurable and behavioral skills of communication for couples to intervene with sex and intimacy in order to decrease anxiety in the session.
Analyze the history of the fields of sex and couples therapy and integrate into overall understanding and awareness.
Defend how LGBTQ and trans rights impacts all therapists today and is important in the role of treatment provider.
Debate intersectionality and how POC and LGBTQ with multi-racial backgrounds perceive psychotherapy and lack access to treatment.
Demonstrate methods for at least one nonverbal skill to help clients communicate about sex and intimacy to improve clinical outcomes.
Perform writing exercises designed to bring insight and practice into their own goals of psychotherapy.
Conclude how the vision of their business in psychotherapy may grow as a result of this course.

Outline

MODULE ONE: Assessing and treating Sexual Issues

Introduction
Review of sex therapy practice
Countertransference
Biopsychosocial
Sex Therapy and the PLISSIT model
Low sex or sexless relationships
Diagnosing and treatment
Desire and arousal discrepancy

MODULE TWO: Sex Therapy for Low Sex

Low Sex, No Sex and Intermittently Sexual Marriages
Interventions/dialogues
Appreciations, stretches, repair
Soothing, dealing with triggers
Pleasure dystonic states
Pleasure disorders

MODULE THREE: Counseling Couples

Relationship Varieties
Review Relationship Theory
Review Dialogue and Interventions
Developmental states
Second adolescence
Interventions in your office
Review of cases

MODULE FOUR: The New Monogamy

After infidelity and treating monogamy dilemmas
Trauma triangles and the therapist
Alternative Relationships
Creating new monogamy agreements
Three phases of recovery
Crisis, managing emotions
Insight, understanding the narrative of betrayal
Vision, creating a new relationship

MODULE FIVE: Integrative Therapy

Alternative Interventions
integrative systems
Therapeutic interventions
Sex Coaching
three areas and the directives for each area
contemporary needs of today’s clients.
Intersectionality, race and feminism
LGBTQ treatment
Body disorders and size

MODULE SIX: Alternative Interventions

Intervention counseling and mindfulness therapy
Using writing and publishing
Narratives through writing
Explore potential publishing options
Tools of growing a business
How to create and expand an integrative business
Begin and grow a transformational life.
Focus on expanded personal transformation

Target Audience

Psychologists
Physicians
Addiction Counselors
Counselors
Social Workers
Nurses
Other Behavioral Health Professionals

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Part 1: The theoretical foundation of sex therapy

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Part 2: A brief history of sexual desire

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Part 3: Models and definitions of sexual issues

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Part 4: Assessing sexual issues: demonstration with couple 1

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Part 5: Diagnostic considerations: the role of gender, age, health, medication and more

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Part 6: The appreciation dialogue: demonstration with couple 1

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Part 7: A new model of the female sexual response cycle

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Part 8: Sensate focus and erotic recovery: demonstration with couple 1

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Part 9: Sexual issues and the intersection of culture, race and gender

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Part 1: Understand the parts of a marriage and moving from a trauma model to a pleasure model

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Part 2: Shifting from performance to pleasure: demonstration with couple 1

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Part 3: Why is sex going down in marriages and demonstrating the sharing pleasure exercise with couple 1

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Part 1: There is no “normal” in relationships

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Part 2: The stages of couples’ counseling

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Part 3: Individual counseling for sexual issues

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Part 4: Sexual identity, gender identity and the Minority Stress Model

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Part 5: The basics of a sex and couples therapy session

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Part 6: Mastering basic sexuality counseling skills

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Part 7: Decoding fantasies to understand needs in the relationship

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Part 8: The new era of relationship life cycles and what research says about sex, orgasm and fantasy

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Part 9: Approaches to couples therapy: Imago Therapy

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Part 10: Approaches to couples therapy: attachment and object relations

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Part 1: Redefining monogamy and gender roles

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Part 2: What is nonmonogomy?

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Part 3: Developing the relationship agreement and recovering from betrayal

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Part 4: Erotic recovery: demonstration with couple 2

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Part 5: The continuum of monogamy and a model of sexual wellness

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Part 1: Navigating differences in gender, sexuality and eroticism

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Part 2: Cultural considerations: intersectionality, multiculturalism and ethnicity

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Part 3: Exploring the gender roles of women: oppression, biases and social movements

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Part 4: Integrative treatment for body image, eating disorders and sexual dysfunction

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Part 5: Exactly what to do in a sex and couples therapy session

Part 6: Dialogue skills: a full session demonstration with couple 3

Part 7: Societal shifts in nonmonogamy and polyamory

Part 8: The three things you need to create a new monogamy that will work for you

Part 9: Kink and BDSM: how to manage your own biases

Part 1: A new perspective on journaling

Part 2: Mindfulness, sensate focus and the path to erotic recovery

Part 3: A brief note on yoga and sex

Part 4: How art therapy can enhance sex and couples work

Part 5: Alternative interventions for the therapist

Guided Meditation featuring Steve Walters on Guitar

Healing Meditation featuring Steve Walters on Guitar

Meditation For Your Relationship featuring Steve Walters on Guitar

What's New with Sex?: Expanding and Exploring the Therapeutic Comfort Zone

Working with sexuality and erotic behavior can challenge a therapist’s biases and countertransference around intimacy and relationships. This session will explore ways that therapists can face their own concerns and ask questions about anything sexual. It explores the idea of sex clubs, BDSM, and polyamory. You'll also look at the impact of technology on sexual behavior, with the advent of sex robots, teledildonics, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality. Intense and fun, this session will include videos, expert speakers, and small-group discussion to help therapists face their own preconceived notions around sexuality and modern eroticism. You’ll explore:

Your own sex-related stereotypes, resistance, confusion, and shame in order to create a safe, nonjudgmental environment for clients
How to expand your ability to communicate about sexual issues in therapy, and help clients create new personal experiences for pleasure and growth
Alternative sexual practices, including swinging, consensual nonmonogamy, Dom/sub relationships, fetishes, and BDSM
Ways to process triggers and concerns that may be activated by unconventional sexual behavior

Program Information

Objectives

Assess your own sex-related stereotypes, resistance, curiosity, guilt, and shame to create a safe, comfortable, and nonjudgmental environment for clients.
Evaluate the ways in which technology is changing sexuality for your clients, including robotics, teledildonics, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality.
Catalogue the range of behaviors your clients might bring up in session, including online sex, open relationships, non-monogamy, polyamory and swinging.
Assess responses and any vicarious trauma that may be triggered by issues around pornography, unconventional sexual behavior, sex tech and other fringe erotic practices, in order to improve clinical outcomes.
Demonstrate how to communicate about sexual issues in the consulting room and ask questions therapeutically.
Practice at least 2 effective ways to help clients create new personal pathways for pleasure and in their relationships.

Outline

Intro
Beliefs about sex and relationships
Videos - fetishes/BDSM
Countertransference exercise
Small dyadic process
Impact of technology on sexual behavior
Lecture on sex robots, teledildonics, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality
Alternative sexual practices
Discussion - open relationships/nonmonogamy
Q&A - sexual issues in the consulting room/triggers
Closing

Target Audience

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