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Digital Seminar

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

Faculty:
Tammy Nelson, PhD
Duration:
3 Hours 46 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
10 Mar, 2022
Product Code:
NOS096182
Media Type:
Digital Seminar
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Description

Working with sexuality and erotic behaviour 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 behaviour, 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 behaviour

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Tammy Nelson, PhD's Profile

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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 employment relationships with Daybreak University and the California Institute of Integral Studies. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording, and book 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. Assess your own sex-related stereotypes, resistance, curiosity, guilt, and shame to create a safe, comfortable, and nonjudgmental environment for clients.
  2. Evaluate the ways in which technology is changing sexuality for your clients, including robotics, teledildonics, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality.
  3. Catalogue the range of behaviors your clients might bring up in session, including online sex, open relationships, non-monogamy, polyamory and swinging.
  4. 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.
  5. Demonstrate how to communicate about sexual issues in the consulting room and ask questions therapeutically.
  6. 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

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