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Nearly every client in an intimate relationship will face the challenge of decreased sexual connection.
Whether the result of routine family and relationship changes, or the distress of life-changing events…
…sexual rupture is prevalent, and it's pushing partners away from each other.
As therapists, we have the opportunity to help clients discover fulfilling and exciting relationships again… both physically and emotionally.
But we need the right training to be effective!
Sex and relationships are constantly changing, and our field has been way behind the curve.
That's why we're excited to announce that enrollment is now open for this certification training that provides the cutting-edge, real-life information every therapist needs to confidently work with sex and intimate relationships.
to the crucial, often uncomfortable, topic of sexuality.
In this FREE intensive programme, you'll get insider access to clinical demonstrations and experiential learning sessions that will show you how to work with low-sex relationships, infidelity, shame, changing cultural and gender roles, redefined monogamy, body-image issues, trauma, sexual dysfunction, and much more!
You'll end this programme with the knowledge and skills to confidently handle issues of sexuality and intimacy in any relationship setting.
That's not all… you’ll end this FREE course with the education requirements you need to become a Certified Sex Therapy Informed Professional (CSTIP). Professional and clinical experience standards apply.
This programme has helped thousands of therapists enhance their work with intimate relationships.
There is no cost to register and get 30-day access to this incredible course. You’ve got nothing to lose and everything to gain.
But this special offer will expire soon. Register today!
Integrative Sex and Couples Certification Training with Tammy Nelson:
Certified Sex Therapy Informed Professional (CSTIP) CourseJoin Tammy Nelson for six step-by-step modules filled with real, in-session client demonstrations and in-depth insight on today's most challenging intimacy and relationship issues.
- Review of sex therapy practice
- A brief history of sexual desire
- Models and definitions of sexual issues
- Assessing sexual issues: In-session clinical demonstration
- Diagnostic considerations: The role of gender, age, health, medication and more
- The Appreciation Dialogue: In-session clinical demonstration
- A new model of the female sexual response cycle
- Sensate Focus and Erotic Recovery: In-session clinical demonstration
- Sexual issues and the intersection of culture, race and gender
- Low Sex, No Sex and Intermittently Sexual Marriages
- Interventions/dialogues
- Appreciations, stretches, repair
- Soothing, dealing with triggers
- Pleasure dystonic states
- Pleasure disorders
- Moving from a trauma model to a pleasure model
- Shifting from performance to pleasure: In-session clinical demonstration
- Why is sex going down in marriages?
- Demonstrating the Sharing Pleasure exercise: In-session clinical demonstration
- There is no “normal” in relationships
- The stages of couples' counselling
- Individual counselling for sexual issues
- Sexual identity, gender identity and the Minority Stress Model
- The basics of a sex and couples therapy session
- Mastering basic sexuality counselling skills
- Decoding fantasies to understand needs in the relationship
- The new era of relationship life cycles and what research says about sex, orgasm and fantasy
- Approaches to couples therapy: Imago Therapy
- Redefining monogamy and gender roles
- What is nonmonogamy?
- Developing the Relationship Agreement and recovering from betrayal
- Erotic Recovery: In-session clinical demonstration
- The continuum of monogamy and a model of sexual wellness
- Navigating differences in gender, sexuality and eroticism
- Cultural considerations: Intersectionality, multiculturalism and ethnicity
- Exploring the gender roles of women: Oppression, biases and social movements
- Integrative treatment for body image, eating disorders and sexual dysfunction
- Exactly what to do in a sex and couples therapy session
- Dialogue Skills: In-session clinical demonstration
- Societal shifts in nonmonogamy and polyamory
- The three things you need to create a new monogamy that will work for you
- Kink and BDSM: How to manage your own biases
- A new perspective on journaling
- Mindfulness, Sensate Focus and the path to erotic recovery
- A brief note on yoga and sex
- How Art Therapy can enhance sex and couples work
- Alternative interventions for the therapist
Integrative Sex and Couples Certification Training with Tammy Nelson:
Certified Sex Therapy Informed Professional (CSTIP) Course
Tammy Nelson, PhD, is a licensed psychotherapist in private practice, a relationship expert and international speaker, an author, a faculty member and teacher with a Doctorate in Philosophy in Clinical Sexology. She is a Board Certified Sexologist, a Diplomate of the American Board of Sexologists, a Licensed Professional Counselor, an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist, a Registered Art Therapist, a Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor, a Certified Imago Relationship therapist and an Advanced Imago Clinician.
Dr. Tammy is the author of several books including Open Monogamy: A Guide to Co-Creating Your Ideal Relationship Agreement (2021), Integrative Sex & Couples Therapy: A Therapist's Guide to New and Innovative Approaches (2020), The New Monogamy: Redefining Your Relationship After Infidelity (2013), Getting the Sex You Want: Shed Your Inhibitions and Reach New Heights of Passion Together (2008), and What's Eating You?: A Workbook for Anorexia and Bulimia (2004). She is also a TEDx speaker, host of the podcast The Trouble with Sex, and Director of the Integrative Sex Therapy Institute.
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guidance that is crisp and clear as it is hopeful and realistic."