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Digital Seminar

From Dysfunction to Erotic Discovery: Transforming the Sexual Narrative


Faculty:
Suzanne Iasenza, PhD
Duration:
2 Hours 01 Minutes
Copyright:
May 29, 2020
Product Code:
POS056700
Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Access:
Never expires.


Description

When couples come to therapy with problems involving desire, arousal, and orgasm, therapists often fall into the trap of thinking of them as somehow broken and in need of fixing.  

This is often not the case!  

Don’t risk leaving your clients without the help they came to you for. Join sex therapist expert and author Suzanne Iasenza, PhD,  in this recording and learn an approach that guides couples from a state of disconnection to becoming a sexual-discovery team exploring their own idiosyncratic pathway to pleasure.  

Specifically, you’ll learn a three-part therapeutic process to help couples find alternatives to rigid scripts about what fulfilling sexuality is supposed to be like. You’ll explore how to: 

  1. Conduct a Detailed Sexual History  
    • Help clients understand their current sexual narratives  
    • How to create more liberating stories for each partner 
  2. Empowering Both Partners 
    • Make explicit each partner’s “menu” for preferred sexual activities 
    • Expanding partners’ repertoire for more genuine erotic satisfaction 
  3. Meditative Tools to Teach Couples 
    • Sensate focus 
    • Considerations in clinical practice when working with clients to enhance their sexual development 

CPD


CPD
- PESI Australia, in collaboration with PESI in the USA, offers quality online continuing professional development events from the leaders in the field at a standard recognized by professional associations including psychology, social work, occupational therapy, alcohol and drug professionals, counselling and psychotherapy. On completion of the training, a Professional Development Certificate is issued after the individual has answered and submitted a quiz and course evaluation. This online program is worth 2.0 hours CPD for points calculation by your association.

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Suzanne Iasenza, PhD, is faculty at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy where she is co-director of the Sex Therapy Program and teaches at the Ackerman Institute for the Family. She is author of the book Transforming Sexual Narratives: A Relational Approach to Sex Therapy.


Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Suzanne Iasenza maintains a private practice and has employment relationships with Adelphi University and the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy. She receives royalties as a published author. Suzanne Iasenza receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Suzanne Iasenza is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Women in Psychology, the Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists, the Society for Sex Therapy and Research, the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, and the American Family Therapy Academy.


Objectives

  1. Employ a detailed relational sexual history for partners to help them understand their current sexual narratives and how to create more liberating stories. 
  2. Demonstrate techniques to empower both partners to make explicit their “menus” for preferred sexual activities as a way of expanding their repertoire for more genuine erotic satisfaction. 
  3. Determine how to help couples use sensate focus as a meditative tool to enhance their sexual development. 

Outline

Conduct a Detailed Sexual History  

Help clients understand their current sexual narratives  

How to create more liberating stories for each partner 

Empowering Both Partners 

Make explicit each partner’s “menu” for preferred sexual activities 

Expanding partners’ repertoire for more genuine erotic satisfaction 

Meditative Tools to Teach Couples 

Sensate focus 

Considerations in clinical practice when working with clients to enhance their sexual development 

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Psychologists(For CE Credit)
  • Psychotherapists
  • Therapists
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Case Managers
  • Nurses

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