Working with Sexual Issues in Couples Counselling

Sexuality is ever present in couple counselling.

Many counsellors feel unprepared to raise sexual issues because they have not had sufficient training in human sexuality. Others are unsure how to raise the issue if the couple doesn’t. What is proper timing? How does one proceed once the issue is raised? How does one explore expansive sexual and relational issues that traditional couple training often ignores?

Ready to feel more comfortable addressing sexuality with your clients—even if they don’t bring it up themselves?

This practical, interactive workshop arms clinical counsellors with the skills and confidence to make sexuality a normalized part of therapy.

This workshop will describe how to create safe rapport to inquire about sexuality in couple counselling. It will include how to utilize expanded models of sexual response, how to integrate a cultural perspective, and how to help couples who desire a more engaged, expansive erotic life.

Learning Objectives:

• To describe how to raise sexuality issues in couple counselling.
• To identify expansive models of sexual response.
• To explain how to conduct a culturally sensitive sexual interview.
• To describe how to apply sex therapy techniques.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER:
Suzanne Iasenza, PhD

Suzanne Iasenza is on the faculties of the Adelphi University Derner Institute’s Postgraduate Program in Psychoanalysis, and the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy (ICP), where she is Co-Founder of the Sex Therapy Training Program (STP). She also teaches at the Ackerman Institute for the Family, the Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy and the Family Institute of Westchester. She maintains a private practice in psychotherapy and sex therapy in New York. Her latest book, Transforming Sexual Narratives: A Relational Approach to Sex Therapy recently received an award for exceptional merit from the Society for Sex Therapy and Research.

You can learn more about Suzanne here