When Porn Is The Issue: Working with Couples & Individuals

Title of Event: When Porn Is The Issue: Working with Couples & Individuals

When couples are in conflict about porn, the most common clinical approach pathologizes the porn consumer while legitimizing the other partner’s grievances. This violates our commitment to neutrality. More importantly, it doesn’t help the couple.

To help us work more effectively with such cases, this webinar focuses on treating intrapsychic conflicts, power struggles, and existential issues relating to porn use and sexuality.

We’ll look at how one or both partners may be acting out body image issues, and how each partner’s narratives about pornography, sexuality, and gender may be underlying themes in a couple’s conflict.

We’ll also explore how conflict about pornography often allows couples to avoid confronting their sexual relationship’s deficits. And we’ll look at various sexual issues—such as desire, arousal, and masturbation—that should be raised when working with these cases.

Finally, we’ll examine how to work with people who are using porn in unhealthy ways—without increasing their sense of shame, guilt, isolation, or inadequacy.

Date and Time: Oct. 24, 2025, and on demand after that | 10am-1pm PDT

Location: Online Asynchronous

Presenter: Marty Klein, PhD, CST, CSTS

Contact Name: Glenn Marks

Contact Phone: (520) 349-9050

Contact Email: glenn@zurinstitute.com

Event Website: https://www.zurinstitute.com/webinars/when-porn-is-the-issue-working-with-couples-individuals/

AASECT CEs: 3

Sex Therapy Training Areas: A, B, C