Sex, Sexuality and Trauma

Title of Event: Sex, Sexuality and Trauma

 

Description of Event:

Sex and sexuality are central, and multifaceted, elements of the human experience across the lifespan. Yet clinically it has been marginalized, compartmentalized and its components relegated to specialists within healthcare disciplines. Mental health professionals receive little, if any, specific training on addressing sex during their graduate level training. Yet all counselors and therapists, regardless of the settings or populations they work with, will encounter a wide range of sexually related issues.

 

In this training, participants will explore the complex relationship between socio-cultural factors and sexual trauma through a sex-positive lens. The session will address how ethnicity, culture, religion, and other socio-cultural factors influence sexual values and behaviors. The session will define sexual trauma and sexual exploitation, including abuse, harassment, and assault, with a focus on prevalence across diverse populations. Participants will engage in a theoretical and experiential learning, applying case studies to enhance their knowledge in practical scenarios, emphasizing the critical components of trauma recovery – safety, processing, and integration, and offer effective skills for restoring nervous system regulation and resolving sexual trauma. This session will help provide foundational knowledge and explore emotional skills to not only address clinical sexual trauma, but also move past it by helping clients develop a healthy sexuality through a sex-positive empowering framework that enhances pleasure, celebrates sexual diversity, and helps client become fully embodied selves. This program is built on a sex-positive framework, using strength-based approaches promoting health and wellbeing. Participants will gain foundational knowledge and explore the emotional skills necessary to conduct clinical work that that maximizes pleasure and celebrates sexual diversity.

 

Date of Event: May 29, 2025

 

Time of Event: 9:30am-12:30pm PT / 11:30am-2:30pm CT / 12:30-3:30pm ET

 

Location: Online through Zoom

 

Presenter/Speaker: Ewelina Beardmore, LCPC, CST, SEP

 

Contact Name: Office of CE at The Chicago School

 

Contact Email: officeofce@thechicagoschool.edu

 

Event Website: https://tcsppofficeofce.com/may_29_2025/

 

AASECT Approved CEs: 3.0