Objectives

Integrate clinical techniques that can help reinforce healthy relationships in clients.

Outline

Discover how to:

Create evocative conversations that help partners reconnect with their sexual selves and enhance their shared sense of erotic adventure
Shift the emphasis from sex as a thing to do to a place that serves as a source of creativity, renewal and personal growth
Integrate simple techniques about giving and receiving pleasure that can rekindle erotic excitement in long-term relationships
Identify and address erotic blocks-internal and relational-that are the results of conflicts between relational needs for predictability and safety vs. needs for freedom and individual fulfillment

Copyright : 30/10/2015

Explain why creating a sense of safety is a key component of Emotionally Focused Therapy

You’ll discover how to:

• Turn down the emotional threat in a relationship so partners can reach for each other emotionally and physically

• Help clients transform painful moments of disconnection to starting points for restoring intimacy, emotional and sexual, in their relationship

• Coach partners in creating bonding moments that increase empathy, and open them to being fully available to each other

• Strengthen secure attachment between partners so they feel free to take more risks in exploring their sexuality with each other

Copyright : 16/11/2015

Objectives

Identify one way for a low-desire partner to have empathy for their high-desire partner

Outline

Learn how to recognize signs of the desire gap and explore the issue directly and early in therapy
Provide a method for helping the high desire spouse share feelings of hurt and rejection while guiding the low-desire spouse to empathically listen to the deeper needs of their partner
Introduce couples to the 5 Love Languages to help them step outside their personal comfort zones for giving and receiving affection and validation
Bypass longstanding problems with low desire by adopting the action-oriented Nike philosophy—just do it

Copyright : 29/10/2015

Objectives

Outline

The difference between porn “addiction” and the habits of high libido porn users
How to address the shame and secrecy that is the most common problem with couples and porn
How to guide couples through a “sex script” that can help them explore new sexual territory with each other
How porn can play a useful role in helping couples in long-term relationships expand and heighten their shared erotic life

Objectives

Explain the importance of taking a client’s sexual narrative as one of the first steps in therapy

Outline

The importance of educating couples about willingness—not desire—as the necessary first step in a satisfying sexual relationship
How to use sexual history taking to help clients understand their current sexual issues in the wider context of their ongoing sexual narrative
The process for helping a couple create a shared erotic menu that can bring more variety, acceptance, and playfulness to their sexual exploration
How the technique of mindful sensate focus can free partners to explore new pathways to more embodied pleasure with each other

Objectives

Describe three ways that a couple can promote attachment, as measurable through brain science

Outline

What research is showing about the impact of alternatives to traditional rituals of dating and mating-- including online dating, sexting, and hooking up--on what people are looking for in relationship today
How to see the latest forms of sexual experimentation as pathways to committed relationships shaped by caution, time and energy constraints, and fear of divorce
How the latest findings in brain science can illuminate the interplay among the three components of love—sex drive, romance, and deep attachment
Exploration of the many cultural factors shaping new patterns of sexual behavior including the divorce revolution, changing attitudes towards work and career, and the new financial pressures many young people face today