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Digital Seminar

Integrative Sex & Couples Therapy: Innovative Clinical Interventions to Treat Relationship & Desire Issues in the New Era of Sexuality in Psychotherapy


Faculty:
Tammy Nelson, PhD
Duration:
5 Hours 45 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
Feb 25, 2020
Product Code:
POS055590
Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Access:
Never expires.


Description

80% of all clients in psychotherapy will complain about their dissatisfaction with either their relationships or their sex lives. Are you equipped to handle these issues as they arise?

The traditional models of dealing with relationships and sex aren’t working, and all clinicians need practical interventions to address these basic problems that almost all clients struggle with at some point in their lives.

Integrative Sex and Couples Therapy is essential for all therapists at any level of experience and for every population.

You don’t need to work with couples to utilize these interventions and help clients in your practice.

Watch Tammy Nelson, Ph.D., internationally acclaimed psychotherapist, Board Certified Sexologist, Certified Sex Therapist and Certified Imago Relationship Therapist in this ground-breaking recording, and she’ll walk you step-by-step through the phases of her new model of integrated sex and couples therapy treatment so you’ll leave this seminar better equipped to work with your most challenging cases.

With Dr. Tammy’s expert guidance, you’ll learn practical interventions you can use to help clients improve their relationships, balance desire discrepancies, work through betrayal and feel more passionate. You’ll also learn how to avoid professional dilemmas, such as countertransference, projection and hopelessness —which lead to frustration for both you and your clients.

Purchase today and use integrative sex and couples therapy in your practice!

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 5.75 hours CPD for points calculation by your association.

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Tammy Nelson, PhD, is a licensed psychotherapist in private practice, a relationship and international speaker, an author, a faculty member and teacher with a Doctorate in Philosophy in Clinical Sexology. She is a board-certified sexologist, a diplomate of the American Board of Sexologists, a licensed professional counselor, an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist, a registered art therapist, a licensed alcohol and drug counselor, a Certified Imago Relationship Therapist and an Advanced Imago Clinician as well as an ISTI Certified Sex and Couples Therapist.

Dr. Tammy is the author of six books, including Open Monogamy: A Guide to Co-Creating Your Ideal Relationship Agreement (2021), Integrative Sex & Couples Therapy: A Therapist’s Guide to New and Innovative Approaches (2020), When You’re the One Who Cheats: Ten Things You Need to Know (2019), The New Monogamy: Redefining Your Relationship After Infidelity (2013), Getting the Sex You Want: Shed Your Inhibitions and Reach New Heights of Passion Together (2008), and What’s Eating You? A Workbook for Anorexia and Bulimia (2004). She is also the creator of Date Night Card Deck (2023), a TEDx speaker, host of the podcast The Trouble with Sex, and founder and executive director of the Integrative Sex Therapy Institute.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Tammy Nelson maintains a private practice and is executive director and primary faculty at Integrated Sex Therapy Training Institute (ISTI) and has an employment relationship with Daybreak University. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc., and she additionally receives royalties from New Harbinger and Sounds True. She is a paid consultant for Evergreen Certifications. Dr. Nelson has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Tammy Nelson serves on the board of advisors for the World Association of Sex Coaches. She is a member of the American Art Therapy Association, American Association of Sex Educators, Sex Counselors, and Sex Therapists (AASECT), American Comprehensive Energy Psychology Association (ACEP), American Counseling Association, American Family Therapy Academy, American Family Therapy Association (AFTA), American Psychological Association (APA), Connecticut Counselors, Imago Relationships International Association of Professional and Certified Therapists, International Board of Sexologists, International Institute for Sexuality and Human Development, Nonfiction Authors Association, Society Scientific Study Sexuality (SSSS), and the Society for Sex Therapy and Research (SSTAR).


Objectives

  1. Perform a clinical assessment to determine the cause of pleasure denial to inform the clinician’s choice of treatment interventions.
  2. Analyze the effects of separation, betrayal, trust and identity issues on eroticism in clients’ sexual partnerships as it relates to clinical practice.
  3. Utilize clinical interventions, such as pleasure mapping and desire awareness, to treat desire issues such as pleasure resistance, pleasure avoidance and pleasure rejection.
  4. Appraise the phases of treatment for erotic recovery and develop a treatment plan for women, both individually and in couple’s treatment, for sexless marriage and desire issues.
  5. Create an attachment versus individualization plan as a treatment intervention to aid clients in developing relational skills and strengthening sexual intimacy and wellness.
  6. Distinguish the clinical implications of the stages of integration and the four areas of sexuality that have meaning for women around the narrative of eroticism.

Outline

Sexuality: The New Model of What’s Normal

  • Challenges of sex therapy & couples therapy
  • How the treatment of women has changed
  • What are you afraid clients will bring up?
  • Target multiple levels of sexuality
  • Cultural definitions of sexual pathology & wellness
  • Model of sexual wellness

Address Sexual & Relational Needs

  • Why we choose partners with different needs
  • Clusters of needs & their treatment implications
  • The different types of erotic needs
  • How relationship phases affect erotic needs
  • Strategies to address countertransference

Desire Discrepancies: Interventions for the Most Common Issue Couples Face

  • The cycle of arousal & its clinical impact
  • The prerequisite of arousal
  • Address relational avoidance
  • How to renew & rekindle desire

Pleasure Disorders & Their Treatment

  • Pleasure vs. performance
  • Types of pleasure denial
  • Empower women to have pleasure
  • Interventions for pleasure denial

Integration: A Treatment Model

The Relationship Trauma Triangle

  • Why the current therapy model isn’t working
  • How to avoid being drawn into conflicts
  • Separation, betrayal, trust & identity
  • The integration model

Interventions for Each Phase of Treatment

  • Elicit sexual narratives
  • Teach a focus on appreciation
  • Integrate the four areas of sexual meaning
  • Build upon pleasure & connection

The Crisis Phase of Treatment

  • Assess for relationship & individual risk
  • Delay the “stay or go” decision
  • Teach relationship skills
  • Tools for clients to deal with intense affect
  • Focus on decreasing fatigue & pressure

Strategies for the Insight Phase

  • Explore the “how did we get here?”
  • Address attachment issues
  • Create an attachment vs. individuation plan
  • Exercises for couples
  • Appreciate & expand on what’s working

The Vision Phase of Treatment

  • Erotic recovery
  • Focus on fantasy & pleasure
  • 6 weeks of sex dates protocol
  • Create a new monogamy agreement
  • Limitations of the research & potential risks

Target Audience

  • Psychologists
  • Social Workers
  • Counselors
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Sex Educators and Therapists
  • Addiction Professionals
  • Nurses

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