Sexual Identity Development & Attraction

Title of Event: Sexual Identity Development & Attraction

Description of Event: 

Despite common cultural narratives, our sexual identity never stops developing and there is no age in which it can be considered “complete.” Sexual identity development is often treated as a youth or adolescent experience, which minimizes the importance of learning, unlearning, and exploring one's desires, curiosities, disgusts, and sense of self well into adulthood - especially while in relationship with others. Sexual Identity Development and Attraction is for sexuality professionals seeking a more expansive, less clinical understanding of sexuality as a part of human identity and the various factors that make it develop, evolve, and shift, especially as we age.

This course intentionally de-centers a clinical and medical perspective of sexual identity development to make space for the relational and social, helping attendees build compassion and understanding for identity development processes that differ from their own.

This course is open to all sexuality professionals. It is required for those completing the EDST Sex Therapy Certification.

By the end of this course, attendees will be able to:

• Define “sexuality identity” beyond sexual orientation or gender
• List four components of human sexuality
• Discuss asexuality and the asexual spectrum
• Examine the impacts of allonormativity and amatonormativity on sexual identity development
• Identify three forms of attraction other than sexual or romantic

Start Date: 02-06-2027

End Date: 02-06-2027

Time of Event: 10:00 AM-2:30 PM

Location: Online Synchronous

Presenter/Speaker: Anne Hodder-Shipp, CSE

Main Contact: Anne Hodder-Shipp

Contact Telephone Number: (310) 721-4810

Contact Email: hello@everyonedeservessexed.com

Event Website: https://www.everyonedeservessextherapy.com/workshops-professional-development-trainings/what-is-good-sex-rd9rd-phybf-c27tc-edbs7-hetdd

AASECT Approved CEs: 4