Integrating Trauma work into Couples & Sex Therapy

Description of Event:

Please join Atar Stav, LCPC, NCC, who will share her expertise in blending trauma therapy with sex and couples counseling. You’ll gain practical tools, somatic techniques, and relational frameworks to address intimacy challenges rooted in trauma, helping clients reconnect with themselves and their partners. Participants will also learn about common reactions trauma survivors may have to sexual intimacy in couples, as well as communication tools each partner can use to foster safety and trust in their relationship. Whether you work primarily with couples, individuals, or trauma survivors, this training will give you the skills to integrate healing and intimacy work in a way that’s safe, effective, and transformative.

 

Learning Objectives

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

 

Identify at least three ways trauma can influence sexual functioning, desire, and relational dynamics within couples.

 

Apply two or more trauma-informed, body-based interventions to help clients safely explore intimacy and enhance emotional and physical connection.

 

Atar Stav, LCPC, NCC (she/her) is a trauma-informed sex and relationship therapist practicing at Joanne Bagshaw & Associates. She holds an MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Johns Hopkins University and an MA in Human Rights & Humanitarian Action from Sciences Po, Paris School of International Affairs. Atar’s training includes modalities such as sensorimotor psychotherapy, somatic attachment, Imago therapy, DBT, trauma focused CBT, narrative therapy, and trauma stabilization technique, and she is a Nationally Certified Counselor through the NBCC and an approved LGPC supervisor in Maryland. 

 

CEU Information 

This program meets the requirements of the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT) and is approved for 2 CE credits and is considered synchronous learning if in attendance during the live webinar. These CE credits may be applied toward AASECT certification and renewal of certification through Flourish Media & Education. Completion of this program does not ensure or guarantee AASECT Certification. For further information please contact ce@aasect.org.

 

This training is eligible for 2 credits from the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC). Flourish Media & Education has been approved by NBCC as a Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7774. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Flourish Media & Education is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.