Foundations of Outercourse: Helping Clients Achieve Healthy Communication, Confidence, and Comfort

Title of Event: Foundations of Outercourse: Helping Clients Achieve Healthy Communication, Confidence, and Comfort

Description of Event:

This 1-hour training introduces therapists to the therapeutic applications of outercourse—non-penetrative sexual experiences—as a pathway to fostering intimacy, reducing performance pressure, and supporting clients with diverse needs. Participants will learn how to guide couples in exploring outercourse as a tool for building communication, enhancing confidence, and creating greater comfort with physical and emotional closeness. The course provides practical frameworks, case examples, and interventions to integrate outercourse into treatment planning for healthier, more satisfying sexual relationships.

Location: Online Asynchronous

Sex Therapy (ST) Training: 

ST2. Techniques of sex-related assessment and diagnosis of the Psychosexual Disorders described in the current edition of the DSM.
ST3. Theory and methods of approach to intervention in relationship systems experiencing sex and intimacy problems.
ST4. Theory and method of approach to medical intervention in the evaluation and treatment of psychosexual disorders.
ST7. Practicum Experience: Exposure to treatment of clinical sex therapy cases through direct observation, demonstration, case review or role-playing. eLearning cannot be applied. Applicants must be very clear in their documentation as to how they gained exposure to sex therapy cases.

Presenter/Speaker: Rivka Sidorsky, LCSW-C, CST,C-PST

Contact Name: Raiza Queen Calda Enriquez

Contact Email: office@rivkasidorsky.com

Event Website: https://rivkasidorsky.org/workshops/outercourse/view

AASECT Approved CEs: 1