Full Course Description
The Mystery of Eroticism
Learn how to introduce the topic of sex early and effortlessly in your couples work and expand the therapeutic conversation to encompass eroticism, fantasy, and unexpressed desires.
Objectives
- Explain why the same conditions that foster good emotional connection don’t always lead to fulfilling sex lives
Outline
Discover how to:
- Create evocative conversations that help partners reconnect with their sexual selves and enhance their shared sense of erotic adventure
- Shift the emphasis from sex as a thing to do to a place that serves as a source of creativity, renewal and personal growth
- Integrate simple techniques about giving and receiving pleasure that can rekindle erotic excitement in long-term relationships
- Identify and address erotic blocks—internal and relational—that are the results of conflicts between relational needs for predictability and safety vs. needs for freedom and individual fulfillment
Program Information
Target Audience
Addiction Counselors, Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, Nurses, Psychologists, Social Workers
Copyright :
10/30/2015
The Dance of Sex
Explain why creating a sense of safety is a key component of Emotionally Focused Therapy
You’ll discover how to:
• Turn down the emotional threat in a relationship so partners can reach for each other emotionally and physically
• Help clients transform painful moments of disconnection to starting points for restoring intimacy, emotional and sexual, in their relationship
• Coach partners in creating bonding moments that increase empathy, and open them to being fully available to each other
• Strengthen secure attachment between partners so they feel free to take more risks in exploring their sexuality with each other
Program Information
Target Audience
Addiction Counselors, Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, Nurses, Psychologists, Social Workers
Copyright :
11/16/2015
RX for the Sex-Starved Marriage
A sexual desire gap—where one partner has a higher need for sex than the other—is the number one sexual complaint clients bring to therapy. In this session, you’ll learn a practical, brief approach about how to bridge that gap.
Objectives
- Identify one way for a low-desire partner to have empathy for their high-desire partner
Outline
- Learn how to recognize signs of the desire gap and explore the issue directly and early in therapy
- Provide a method for helping the high desire spouse share feelings of hurt and rejection while guiding the low-desire spouse to empathically listen to the deeper needs of their partner
- Introduce couples to the 5 Love Languages to help them step outside their personal comfort zones for giving and receiving affection and validation
- Bypass longstanding problems with low desire by adopting the action-oriented Nike philosophy—just do it
Program Information
Target Audience
Addiction Counselors, Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, Nurses, Psychologists, Social Workers
Copyright :
10/29/2015
The Case for Porn
Get a new perspective on the uses and misuses of porn you can use to address issues of shame, secrecy and betrayal with couples in conflict about one partner’s porn use.
Objectives
- Explain how to guide couples through their “sex script”
Outline
- The difference between porn “addiction” and the habits of high libido porn users
- How to address the shame and secrecy that is the most common problem with couples and porn
- How to guide couples through a “sex script” that can help them explore new sexual territory with each other
- How porn can play a useful role in helping couples in long-term relationships expand and heighten their shared erotic life
Program Information
Target Audience
Addiction Counselors, Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, Nurses, Psychologists, Social Workers
Copyright :
11/14/2015
Transforming Sexual Narratives
This highly practical session offers concrete guidance on how to bring new insight to their individual sexual history and interventions for helping them expand their sexual repertoire.
Objectives
- Explain the importance of taking a client’s sexual narrative as one of the first steps in therapy
Outline
- The importance of educating couples about willingness—not desire—as the necessary first step in a satisfying sexual relationship
- How to use sexual history taking to help clients understand their current sexual issues in the wider context of their ongoing sexual narrative
- The process for helping a couple create a shared erotic menu that can bring more variety, acceptance, and playfulness to their sexual exploration
- How the technique of mindful sensate focus can free partners to explore new pathways to more embodied pleasure with each other
Program Information
Target Audience
Addiction Counselors, Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, Nurses, Psychologists, Social Workers
Copyright :
11/05/2015
Fast Sex, Slow Love: New Pathways to Commitment
Get up to speed on the latest—often surprising—social trends in sexual activity and explore the significance of these emerging patterns for your clients.
Objectives
- Describe three ways that a couple can promote attachment, as measurable through brain science
Outline
- What research is showing about the impact of alternatives to traditional rituals of dating and mating-- including online dating, sexting, and hooking up--on what people are looking for in relationship today
- How to see the latest forms of sexual experimentation as pathways to committed relationships shaped by caution, time and energy constraints, and fear of divorce
- How the latest findings in brain science can illuminate the interplay among the three components of love—sex drive, romance, and deep attachment
- Exploration of the many cultural factors shaping new patterns of sexual behavior including the divorce revolution, changing attitudes towards work and career, and the new financial pressures many young people face today
Program Information
Target Audience
Addiction Counselors, Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, Nurses, Psychologists, Social Workers
Copyright :
11/14/2015