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Sensate Focus in Sex Therapy: Unlocking Pleasure, Safety, and Connection - Part 2

Self Study
Paula Leech
$39.99
Now that you have established a relationship to the conceptual underpinnings of Sensate Focus and have a sense for the “method to the madness” when it comes to diagnosis specific progressions, it will be beneficial to deepen your learning via individual practice. This can be accomplished several ways:
 
- Review the material below from Overcoming Anxiety in Sex and Relationships. The material is worded in an approachable way so as to make it directly translatable for/to our clients. 
- Rehearse out-loud prescribing the back and front caress. Notice where you get stuck or struggle. Practicing on our own helps our brain to meaningful store the instructions in longterm, durable memory, particularly if we rehearse with specific couples or individuals in mind (aka, placing the instructions in client-specific context).
- Practice the individual front caress on your own, with yourself, 2x a week for two or three weeks. Taking time to truly sink into these experiences with and for yourself helps us understand how dynamic and rich the method is on a personal level. Engaging with this experience multiple times will illustrate how the mind and body adapt, illuminating new information with repetition, illuminating different experience - emotionally, physically, and psychologically. 
 

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About the Presenter

Paula is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a certified Sex Therapist and Supervisor of Sex Therapy, practicing out of Massachusetts and Oregon. She is the author of Overcoming Anxiety in Sex and Relationships: A comprehensive guide to intimate and emotional freedom, and has contributed chapters to sex therapy manuals and pop-culture magazines, including Women's Health and CNN Health. She regularly presents at various training institutes as well as universities and therapy agencies across the US and Canada.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Describe the origins of Sensate Focus.
  2. Define natural functions in relationship to sexual arousal.
  3. Cite examples highlighting the importance of language when prescribing the exercises.

These workshops offer 2 Continuing Education Credits
This webinar is recorded and will not grant live credits.

This presentation is open to:
  • Social Workers
  • Professional Counselors
  • Therapists
  • Psychologists
  • Licensed Mental Health Practitioners
  • Medical Doctors and Other Health Professionals
  • Other professionals interacting with populations engaged in mental health based services
Course Level: intermediate
Level of Clinician: beginner
  • New practitioners who wish to gain enhanced insight surrounding the topic
  • Experienced practitioners who seek to increase and expand fundamental knowledge surrounding the subject matter
  • Advanced practitioners seeking to review concepts and reinforce practice skills and/or access additional consultation
  • Managers seeking to broaden micro and/or macro perspectives

Participants will receive their certificate electronically upon completion of the webinar and course evaluation form.

Disability Access - If you require ADA accommodations, please contact our office 30 days or more before the event. We cannot ensure accommodations without adequate prior notification. Please Note: Licensing Boards change regulations often, and while we attempt to stay abreast of their most recent changes, if you have questions or concerns about this course meeting your specific board’s approval, we recommend you contact your board directly to obtain a ruling. The grievance policy for trainings provided by NEFESH INTERNATIONAL is available here Satisfactory Completion Participants must have paid the tuition fee, logged in and out each day, attended the entire workshop, and completed an evaluation to receive a certificate (If this is a pre-recorded program, a post-test with a passing grade of 80% to receive a certificate.) Failure to log in or out will result in forfeiture of credit for the entire course. No exceptions will be made. Partial credit is not available. Certificates are available after satisfactory course completion by clicking here.
There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.
  • The American Psychological Association approves the School of Sex Therapy to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The School of Sex Therapy maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
    The School of Sex Therapy is an approved continued education provider for the International Association of Psychosexual Therapists. The School of Sex Therapy maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
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