S-CST for Intimacy After Medical Events: Support Your Clients with a Somatic Approach to Creating an Inspiring Connection After Injury, Surgery, or Cancer

Title of Event: S-CST for Intimacy After Medical Events: Support Your Clients with a Somatic Approach to Creating an Inspiring Connection After Injury, Surgery, or Cancer

Description of Event:

A car accident, a cancer diagnosis, a chronic illness diagnosed after many years of confusing symptoms—many couples will face a medical event during the course of their relationship. When the focus turns to the medical and emotional needs of one partner and the other partner takes on the responsibilities of life while caring for their beloved, the established rhythm of life and relationship roles are upended.

While a medical event can be an extraordinarily difficult experience—one that requires an immense amount of energy and focus—it can also be an opportunity to change ineffective and unsatisfying relationship patterns while deepening the couple’s emotional bond and physical intimacy.

Somatic-Concentric Sex Therapy incorporates a Dance/Movement Therapy approach to working directly with the body-to-body relationship to support the partner who’s body is doing the hard work of healing as well as the support partner who still has their own needs and desires that they often put on the back burner.

When you can’t rely on the familiar relationship pattern to get by and couple’s find themselves in survival mode, S-CST provides a framework to guide them through this healing journey with embodied intimacy skills and resilience practices.

This training offers a somatic framework of working with couples who are navigating a medical event. Participants will learn how to frame a difficult experience as an opportunity to heal more than the injury or medical condition while deepening relationship connection. They will learn embodied intimacy practices that are trauma-informed and inclusive of different body abilities to restore and enhance connection and pleasure for both individuals and couples. Participants will also learn a somatic exploration of personal bias and support for the clinician in session as they support their clients through what may be one of the most challenging experience they will face.

Start Date: 12-04-2026

End Date: 12-04-2026

Time of Event: 9:30 am - 4 pm MT

Location: Virtual, Synchronous

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

Main Contact: Melissa Walker

Contact Telephone Number: (720) 443-1491

Contact Email: embodiedrelationships@gmail.com

Event Website: https://embodiedrelationshipstraining.com/s-cst-for-intimacy-after-medical-events/

AASECT Approved CEs: 5