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Substance use/abuse and sexuality

Addressing Sexual Trauma and Abuse in Sex Therapy

Title of Event: Addressing Sexual Trauma and Abuse in Sex Therapy

Description of Event:

This webinar will explore the impact of sexual trauma on intimacy and sexuality, including how it affects overall development and sexual development. Participants will learn to understand common traumatic responses and apply trauma-sensitive practices, as well as examine the effects of sexual trauma on couples and relationships.

Date of Event: Thursday, January 29th, 2026

Time of Event: 12:00 PM EST - 3:00 PM EST

Location: Online Synchronous

Sensate Focus in Sex Therapy: Unlocking Pleasure, Safety, and Connection

Title of Event: Sensate Focus in Sex Therapy: Unlocking Pleasure, Safety, and Connection

Description of Event:

How do we treat erectile dysfunction, sexual pain, vaginismus, rapid or “premature” ejaculation, low desire and difficulties with arousal and orgasm, among others? How do we bring our patients out of performance narratives and into their bodies, into pleasure? How do we unravel our patients from sexual trauma, bringing them into a greater sense of emotional and physical safety, embodiment, and freedom?

Certificate in Sex Therapy

Title of Event: Certificate in Sex Therapy

Description of Event:

A Global Pathway to Professional Competence in Psychosexual Therapy
The Certificate in Sex Therapy Program is a 150-hour comprehensive educational experience designed to prepare clinicians, educators, and allied professionals for ethical, inclusive, and evidence-based psychosexual therapy practice.

Applied Clinical Ethics in Sex Therapy Practice

Title of Event: Applied Clinical Ethics in Sex Therapy Practice

Description of Event:

Most ethics workshops have focuses primarily on the essential elements of risk management. While such concepts are clearly important, they represent only a fraction of what ethics and ethical practice should be about.  Indeed, most ethics workshops encourage sex therapists (and other healthcare practitioners) to think more like lawyers than as clinicians.

Pharmacology and Psychosexual Therapy

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.

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