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Safety, Pleasure, and Play: Embodied Healing for Trauma Survivors
Title of Event: Safety, Pleasure, and Play: Embodied Healing for Trauma Survivors
Description of Event: Please join Atar Stav, LCPC, NCC, who will share her expertise in blending trauma therapy with sex and couples counseling. Through an LGBTQ+ and neurodivergent-affirming lens, we’ll examine safety, consent, play, and pleasure as essential foundations for healing. Participants will learn practical tools to help clients rebuild embodied safety, rediscover desire, and explore sexual play and kink as pathways to empowerment and relational growth.
Ideal for: sex therapists, mental-health professionals, and pelvic floor therapists, seeking integrative, trauma-informed approaches to help their clients experience intimacy and pleasure.
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:
Identify neurodivergent-affirming interventions that support safety and relational connection.
Apply at least three embodiment-based and play-oriented techniques for fostering sexual healing, exploration, and pleasure enhancement in trauma-informed clinical practice.
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 has extensive experience working with refugees, and her clinical training integrates modalities including sensorimotor psychotherapy, sex therapy, somatic attachment, Imago therapy, DBT, trauma focused CBT, narrative therapy, and trauma stabilization technique. Atar is a Nationally Certified Counselor through the NBCC and an approved LGPC supervisor in Maryland.
Date of Event: 1/15/2026
Time of Event: 4:00 PM EDT- 6:00 PM EDT
Location: Online Synchronous
Sex Therapy (ST) Training:
ST3. Theory and methods of approach to intervention in relationship systems experiencing sex and intimacy problems.
Presenter/Speaker: Atar Stav, LCPC
Contact Name: Joanne Bagshaw
Contact Telephone Number: (301) 288-3723
Contact Email: admin@joannebagshaw.com
AASECT Approved CEs: 2