Somatic-Concentric Sex Therapy Training for Couples Therapy & Intimate Relationships

Title of Event: Somatic-Concentric Sex Therapy Training for Couples Therapy & Intimate Relationships

Description of Event:

My next S-CST For Couples Therapy is happening in Lafayette, Colorado March 27th - 29th. It will be springtime in Colorado!

The Somatic-Concentric Sex Therapy for Couples Therapy training that I offer is based on my book Whole-Body Sex and my upcoming book on embodied intimacy and offers the skills, interventions, and assessment frameworks for therapists to incorporate into their practice with their own clinical style.

The somatic perspective is rooted in Somatic Psychotherapy and Dance/Movement Therapy and provides a detailed and experiential learning environment to integrate somatic language and interventions into therapeutic work. This model does not include therapist-client touch, though I do offer clear guidance for bodyful touch practices between intimate partners within the therapy session.

The concentric perspective provides a way of assessing and working with a clients' social and environmental context and its impact on their sexuality, somatic architecture, and expression in intimate relationships.

This learning experience is strength-based, emphasizing embodied consent to support moment to moment body autonomy and self-advocacy. It will show you how to assess and map out the exciting and easeful aspects of sexuality with the unconscious and fragmented aspects, activating resilience to open exploration and discovery of a whole-bodied erotic self.

In the S-CST for Couples Therapy training, you will learn how to apply the S-CST model to your work with couples and people in intimate relationships.

At the end of S-CST for Couples Therapy, you will learn:
- Embodied consent in committed relationship
- Relational somatic sculpturing, an experiential intervention, to bring the underlying dynamic into the workable space
- Body movement assessment & interventions for experiential clinical work that also teaches practices for clients to take home.
- Combining Erotic Maps to support the couple with how they shift from challenging aspects of their sexual intimacy into easeful and exciting ways of relating.
- Applying Erotic Bodyfulness practice to both affection and sexual intimacy
- How to support a rhythm of secure attachment within relationship
- How to help clients meaningfully engage with the structure of their monogamous or non-monogamous relationship to support their connection and growth.

S-CST for Couples & Intimate Relationship Work
In-Person, Lafayette, CO
March 27th - 29th, 2026
10 am - 4pm MT

About me! I am a Licensed Professional Counselor, AASECT Certified Sex Therapist, and author. S-CST is a model that I've crafted over 17 years through my Masters in Somatic Counseling Psychology degree program and through my sex therapy and couples therapy training, which has all been deepened through my own experience as a survivor of breast cancer.

You can read testimonials and register here: S-CST Couples and Intimacy Therapy Training in Lafayette, CO  

I'm happy to meet over Zoom with you to answer questions about the training.

Date of Event: March 27th - 29th, 2026

Time of Event: 10 AM - 4 PM

Location: Lafayette, Colorado

Sex Therapy (ST) Training: (check all that apply)

ST3. Theory and methods of approach to intervention in relationship systems experiencing sex and intimacy problems.
ST6. Ethical decision-making and best practice.

Presenter/Speaker: Melissa Walker, LPC, CST, R-DMT

Contact Telephone Number: (720) 345-9144

Contact Email: embodiedrelationships@gmail.com

Event Website: https://embodiedrelationshipstraining.com/somatic-concentric-sex-therapy-s-cst-training-for-therapists-couples-intimate-relationships/

AASECT Approved CEs: 15