Treating Sexual Trauma

Title of Event: Treating Sexual Trauma

Description of Event:

This course provides mental health clinicians with a comprehensive, trauma-informed framework for understanding and treating sexual trauma and its impact on sexuality, relationships, attachment, identity, and the body. Participants will examine the neurobiological, psychological, relational, and sociocultural dimensions of sexual trauma across the lifespan, including childhood sexual abuse, sexual assault, coercion, religious and cultural sexual shame, and traumatic sexual experiences within intimate relationships. The course will explore how sexual trauma commonly presents in clinical practice, including through anxiety, dissociation, avoidance, compulsivity, sexual dysfunction, relational distress, somatic symptoms, shame, and difficulties with desire, arousal, trust, and embodiment.

Using an integrative and evidence-informed approach, participants will learn practical assessment and treatment strategies for working with sexual trauma in individual and relational therapy. The course will include discussion of trauma-informed sexual history taking, pacing and stabilization, attachment dynamics, consent and boundaries, nervous system regulation, and the role of culture and meaning-making in sexual healing. Clinical interventions will draw from modalities including EMDR, parts work/IFS-informed approaches, somatic interventions, attachment-based therapy, psychoeducation, and sex therapy frameworks. Ethical considerations, scope of practice, countertransference, and clinician discomfort when addressing sexuality and trauma will also be addressed. The goal of the course is to help clinicians develop greater competence, confidence, and sensitivity in treating the complex intersection of trauma and sexuality.

Date of Event: January 10th, 2027

Time of Event: 1:45 PM EST -4:45 PM EST

Location: Online Synchronous

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

ST1. Theory and methods of sex-related psychotherapy, including several different models.,

ST3. Theory and methods of approach to intervention in relationship systems experiencing sex and intimacy problems.

ST 7. Practicum Experience: Exposure to treatment of clinical sex therapy cases through direct observation, demonstration, case review or role-playing. eLearning cannot be applied. Applicants must be very clear in their documentation as to how they gained exposure to sex therapy cases.

Presenter/Speaker: CB Eisner, MSW, RCSWI,CST

Contact Name: Raiza Queen Calda Enriquez

Contact Email: office@rivkasidorsky.com

Event Website: https://rivkasidorsky.org/workshops/TreatingSexual/view

AASECT Approved CEs: 3