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Let’s Talk About Sex: Clinical Strategies for Sexual Issues in Therapy – Tanisha Sapp

• Strategies to resolve sexual secrets: Infidelity, pornography, fetishes & more
• Counseling techniques to treat sexual trauma
• Help cope with low sex drive, low libido, and a sexless marriage due to trauma or crisis
• Leave feeling confident and ready to talk about sex with your clients

Are you having trouble talking about sex with your clients?

Do you want to learn how to approach sex in counseling?

Do you welcome discussion of low sexual desire, extra-marital affairs, misuse of porn, anxiety about not having the right kind of orgasm, or how to heal from sexual trauma?

Many clients report a desire to approach sexual concerns and problems within the therapy session, however they are often never asked. Join relationship and sex expert, Tanisha Sapp, LPC, NCC, AASECT, and learn how to feel confident and open with sexual discussions, providing a thorough sexual assessment, and utilizing psychosexual strategies and techniques to resolve sexual problems. She will incorporate many experiential exercises and case scenarios throughout the workshop.

In this workshop you will gain confidence in addressing the range of sexual problems which affect more than 50% of your clients. No matter the age, sexual orientation, or sexual concern, sexuality should play a positive role in your client’s life and relationship. This workshop operates from a sex-positive perspective and explores the ideas of desire, pleasure, eroticism and sexual satisfaction.

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.

Get Let’s Talk About Sex: Clinical Strategies for Sexual Issues in Therapy of author Tanisha Sapp

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