Intimacy Skills

Title of Event: Like a Pro: The Wheel of Consent for Professionals

Description of Event:

Like a Pro brings the transformative model of the Wheel of Consent to professionals working with topics of consent, boundaries, relational intimacy, body sovereignty, trauma recovery, sexuality, communication, and touch. Originally developed for touch practitioners, the course has, by popular demand, expanded to include non-touch professionals like therapists, coaches, teachers, and workshop leaders.

Title of Event: Like a Pro: The Wheel of Consent for Professionals

Description of Event: 

Like a Pro brings the transformative model of the Wheel of Consent to professionals working with topics of consent, boundaries, relational intimacy, body sovereignty, trauma recovery, sexuality, communication, and touch. Originally developed for touch practitioners, the course has, by popular demand, expanded to include non-touch professionals like therapists, coaches, teachers, and workshop leaders.

Title of Event: Like a Pro: The Wheel of Consent for Professionals

Description of Event:

Like a Pro brings the transformative model of the Wheel of Consent to professionals working with topics of consent, boundaries, relational intimacy, body sovereignty, trauma recovery, sexuality, communication, and touch. Originally developed for touch practitioners, the course has, by popular demand, expanded to include non-touch professionals like therapists, coaches, teachers, and workshop leaders.

Title of Event: Psychotherapy and couples counseling: What’s similar, what’s different, and how to do each better.

Description of Event: 

From start to finish, how are couples counseling and individual therapy different, and how are they similar?

Title of Event: Psychotherapy and couples counseling: What’s similar, what’s different, and how to do each better.

Description of Event: 

From start to finish, how are couples counseling and individual therapy different, and how are they similar?

Title of Event: Collaborating with Surrogate Partners in the Triadic Model

Description of Event:

Surrogate Partner Therapy (SPT), a tandem treatment for clients experiencing obstacles to physical and/or emotional intimacy, is an often misunderstood modality. So much conflicting information exists that it’s hard to assess how it is actually practiced. When done well, SPT can be transformative for clients who haven’t been able to make progress through any other means, and can speed up the process in others. So what does it look like to do it well?

Title of Event: Pharmacology and Psychosexual Therapy

Description of Event:

This 3-hour hybrid course is designed for psychotherapists, sex therapists, and mental health clinicians seeking to integrate foundational pharmacological knowledge into psychosexual therapy. Psychotropic medications, hormonal therapies, and sexual function-related prescriptions can have significant effects—positive and negative—on sexual health, intimacy, and relationships.

Title of Event: Integrating Pelvic Floor Fundamentals Into Sex Therapy Practice: A Biopsychosocial Approach

Description of Event:

This 3-hour continuing education seminar introduces sex therapists to the essential role of the pelvic floor in sexual function and sexual pain. Blending anatomy, pain science, trauma- informed practice, and interprofessional collaboration, the course equips therapists with concrete skills to better assess, conceptualize, and treat clients with sexual pain or pelvic-floor–related sexual dysfunction.

Title of Event: Navigating LGBTQ Issues with Religious Patients

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