Title of Event: Redefining Intimacy: How Do We Connect Outside the Script?
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Intimacy has regularly been conflated with sex and romance, but this association can also obscure the deep and valuable ways that platonic intimacy can enhance our lives.
Title of Event: Treating Sexual Trauma
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Title of Event: Motherhood and Sexuality: Finding Balance and Integration
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Motherhood brings profound physical, emotional, and relational changes that can impact sexual desire, satisfaction, and identity. This course explores the challenges and opportunities for integrating sexuality into the postpartum and parenting experience.
Title of Event: Pleasure, Arousal and Fantasy: Using Romance Novels as an Adjunct to Integrative Sex and Couples Therapy
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This interactive 2-hour training explores how contemporary romance novels can function as a clinically useful adjunct to integrative sex and couples therapy by supporting discussions of pleasure, fantasy, emotional intimacy, relational safety, erotic communication, and core attachment needs.
Title of Event: Menopause and Sexual Health: An Interdisciplinary Clinical Framework for Sex Therapy
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Title of Event: Addressing Infertility Challenges in Sex Therapy
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Infertility can place significant emotional, relational, and sexual strain on individuals and couples. This course explores the complex ways that infertility impacts sexual desire, intimacy, and relational satisfaction, and provides strategies for integrating these considerations into sex therapy.
Title of Event: When Trust Is the Wound: A Trauma-Informed Framework for Clinicians Working with Partners of Sex and Porn Addicts
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Title of Event: Safety, Vulnerability, and Intimacy After Trauma
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Title of Event: Polyvagal Theory & KINK
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This course is designed for both professional mental health workers AND individuals looking to establish safety and connection in their KINKY sex practices. We'll examine how incorporating the modern science of Interpersonal Neurobiology with KINK dynamics can allow for increased co-regulation and self-regulation skills so we can fully enjoy the ANXIETY and STRESS we intentionally invite into SEX.
Title of Event: Aesthetic Attraction: How Ace and Aro Folx Shatter the Mold
Description of Event: This workshop explores Aesthetic Attraction, Aesthetic Intimacy, and embodied Aesthetic Pleasure, moving beyond a narrow focus on visual beauty or sexualization. We will examine how aesthetics can include appearance, style, movement, voice, scent, texture, and atmosphere, and how these elements function as meaningful experiences without requiring sexual or romantic intent.