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Embrace Pleasure: How Psychedelics Can Heal Our Sexuality: An Interactive Workshop on Sex, Psychedelics, and The Power of Pleasure
Title of Event: Embrace Pleasure: How Psychedelics Can Heal Our Sexuality: An Interactive Workshop on Sex, Psychedelics, and The Power of Pleasure
Description of Event:
After several decades of clinical research into their therapeutic potential, psychedelic medicines in clinical contexts stand to shift the paradigm of how we have approached the treatment of depression, anxiety, trauma, and other mental health issues. However research into the impact of psychedelics on sexuality is just beginning. In this interactive presentation, clinician and author Dee Dee Goldpaugh will outline the emerging research on psychedelics and sexuality, but go far beyond that to ask questions about how prohibiting pleasure has molded our current drug laws, why pleasure is omitted from the narrative about psychedelic healing, and how psychedelics can help us to embrace our erotic power for optimal sexual experiences and sexual self-actualization.
Based on their new book, Embrace Pleasure: How Psychedelics Can Heal Our Sexuality, Dee Dee will provide practical education on psychedelic preparation and integration in sex therapy practice, explore how different psychedelic medicines impact sexual satisfaction and pleasure, and offer a new framework for working with sexual trauma. Grounded in research, this presentation will also strive to critique the neo-liberal and capitalist structures that exist in our society and in psychedelic science that prevent us from embracing pleasure, creating community, and engaging in meaningful erotic connection while centering on the uplifting message that pleasure (and psychedelics medicines) have the power to heal us.
Date of Event: Thursday, October 9, 2025
Time of Event:7:00PM-9:00PM EST
Location: Online, New York, NY (Synchronous)
Presenter/Speaker: DeeDee Goldpaugh, LCSW
Company/Organization Sponsor: Sex Therapy Program @ Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy
Contact Name: Tobin Berliner
Contact Telephone Number: (212) 333-3444
Contact Email: stp@icpyc.org
Event Website: https://icpnyc.org/event/sexual-trauma-psychedelics/
AASECT Approved CEs: 2