Let's Talk About Sex: Clinical Strategies for Sexual Issues in Therapy

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Tanisha Sapp, MA, LPC, NCC, AASECT, is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Marriage and Family Therapist, and Sex Therapist in the State of Georgia. She specializes in sexual trauma with a focus on arousal and desire disorders. She helps individuals and couples achieve optimal sexual functioning following a traumatic event or life crisis. Mrs. Sapp is currently an Adjunct Professor at Argosy University, Atlanta and the owner of A New Level Empowerment and Consultation, LLC.

With over 14 years of experience in the human services field, Mrs. Sapp has a wealth of knowledge and experience that she loves to share with the world. She has presented at several professional conferences across the United States. She continues to develop and conduct several workshops and educate counselors across the nation.

Her professional memberships include the American Counseling Association, Association for Counselor Education and Supervision, Southern Association for Counselor Education and Supervision, Licensed Professional Counselors Association of Georgia, Chi Sigma Iota, and the American Association for Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists. Mrs. Sapp is currently completing her doctoral degree in Counselor Education and Supervision at Argosy University.

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Tanisha Sapp is owner and director of A New Level Empowerment & Consultation, LLC. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Tanisha Sapp is a member of the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT); and the American Counseling Association.

Objectives

1. Distinguish between sexual dysfunction and performance anxiety.
2. Implement strategies to lead the conversation about sex in counseling.
3. Assess for sexual desire and tackle the taboo subjects such as the misuse of pornography and affairs and how to recover from them.
4. Identify barriers to client functioning and learn strategies to overcoming those barriers.
5. Demonstrate skills and techniques to be used with clients in practice to promote desire, pleasure, eroticism, and sexual satisfaction.
6. Evaluate client functioning through the use of a thorough sexual history.

Outline

Let’s Talk About Sex

• Learn your own barriers
• Myths and misconceptions
• Desire, pleasure, eroticism, and sexual satisfaction
• Taking a sex-positive approach

Assess the Situation

• Conducting a thorough sexual history with ease
• Sexual arousal and desire disorders
• Normal functioning vs abnormal functioning
• Develop a treatment plan, identify strengths, vulnerabilities and needs

Sexual Challenges in Therapy

• Take responsibility and addressing guilt and shame
• Desire, arousal, frequency and sexual power struggles
• Confront avoidance and addressing fear, shame and vulnerability
• Care coordination and client retention:
• When to refer and to whom

Keeping Sexual Secrets

• Infidelity: Emotional and physical recovery
• Pornography, fetishes, prostitution, addictions, and other sexually deviant behaviors
• Sexual orientation and identity
• Polyamory and open relationships

Sexual Trauma and Relationship Crisis

• Identify sexual trauma
• Identify and address relationship crises
• Teach couples to have healthy sex post crisis
• Engage the partner in treatment
• Address sexual dissatisfaction and sexual incompatibility

Treat Specific Populations

• Sexual issues with polyamorous clients
• Sexual issues with gay and lesbian clients
• Sexual issues with pansexual clients
• Sexual issues with infertility
• Skills and experiential exercises to enhance comfort and trust

Target Audience