Upcoming Training for professionals
Systemic therapy, sexual desire and pleasure in long-term couples (OPQ approved)
1 day training and optional monthly small-group supervision
Friday April 28 8:30-4:30, in person, 2100 Marlowe av
Would you like to be better equipped to help your clients in long-term relationships - individuals or couples - who are hurting about their sex lives?
Systemic ideas like attachment and differentiation explain a lot about couples but many complex questions about sex - particularly, sexual desire and pleasure - remain. How do systemic concepts relate to desire and pleasure? What is the therapist’s role with clients who have given up hope for feeling more desire or being more desired by their partner? What is the relationship between a client’s experience of sexual pleasure and desire? When might the therapist usefully normalize waning pleasure in sex and when should they not? Should the therapist screen for sexual problems when it isn’t the presenting problem and if so how? Finally, how do we intervene effectively and ethically around issues of pleasure or desire?
In this one day intensive for practitioners with some background in systemic therapy, we will look at the evolution of general mental health approaches to desire and pleasure since Masters and Johnson and systemic psychotherapies in particular. Then we will look at practical applications in case scenarios.
There is also an optional small supervision group to implement and deepen the knowledge of the concepts introduced in the training which will meet monthly, for four months.
Registration is limited. A full refund is available for cancellations up to 1 week prior to the event. Cancellations in the last week will be refunded minus a 35$ charge.