Intimacy Therapy: Innovative Approaches to Sexual Intelligence
Faculty: Dr. Marty Klein
If you’ve ever been caught off guard by clients or patients dropping into the nitty-gritty of their intimacy issues, this 2-hour overview training is for you. It is designed to help you deal with everyday sexuality issues that can easily occur in general healthcare service delivery. The program is also open to seasoned professionals who offer intimacy therapy and intimacy counseling for sexuality (or counselling for sexuality as our British English colleagues spell it). This Master Class provides a high-level orientation to the latest research and real-life clinical scenarios for in-person or online counseling for sexuality, also known as intimacy therapy. Telehealth adaptations for use via telephone or videoconferencing are discussed. Plus, if you haven’t ever experienced Dr. Marty Klein as a trainer, you are in for an eye-opening, jaw-dropping treat!
- An extended Q&A period will foster group discussion and help you get the answers you seek.
- References, handouts, and access to slides are included.
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Intimacy Therapy: Innovative Approaches to Sexual Intelligence
Course Description
What do most people say they want from sex? Some combination of pleasure and closeness. But during sex, most people typically focus on how they look, smell, and sound; obsess about what their partner is thinking; try to manage distracting thoughts & feelings; and most of all, attend to their performance. That leads exactly to what so many people fear: sexual "dysfunctions" like erection, orgasm, or desire problems. Therapists and self-help books can make things worse because they're trying to improve "functioning" - which is exactly wrong. Better friction doesn't give people what they really want from sex: a sense of relaxation, playfulness, self-acceptance, competence, and connection. Erections and lubrication don't guarantee desire or satisfaction. And so treating people's genitalia is typically the wrong approach to enhancing their passion or pleasure. Innovative approaches to sexual intelligence include a new view of treatment to help people enjoy each other as they are. This 2-hour sexual intelligence training is designed to address any and all issues related to intimacy therapy, whether they are the sole focus of treatment or one that surfaces in the course of everyday healthcare interactions for other issues. Extensive Q&A time will permit collaborative audience participation.
Intimacy therapy topics that we'll examine in this training:
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- How to help people identify the good reasons they don't desire or initiate sex
- How to help people engage with their sexuality throughout their lifespans, including issues such as chronic pain, medication side effects, and body image
- How to support people in making the transition from lust-driven sex to adult eroticism—and how to help people confront the existential issues that arise when they do
- How we can help people discover what their authentic sexual desires actually are, and how they can share these with a partner
- How to guide patients into a model of sexual engagement and satisfaction that does not focus on sexual “function" and “dysfunction"
- How reassuring patients that they're sexually normal can undermine rather than empower them
- How to manage intimacy therapy or counseling via telehealth sessions using telephone or video telephone as the treatment modality.
Learning Objectives
- Assess why people don’t desire or initiate sex
- Explain to clients how to discover and discuss their authentic sexual interests
- List reasons why orgasm is not the most important part of sexual experience
When & How
| CME or CE: | Credit hours 2. |
| Duration: | Approximately 2 hours to complete. |
| Format: | Initially available as LIVE, INTERACTIVE training (synchronous). Group interaction, online readings, illustrative media, automatically graded post-test. Subsequently available 24/7 as an on-demand recording (asynchronous). |
| When: | LIVE Event on 9/22/2023 at 1 PM ET. |
| Where: | 100% Online. |
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Audience
This program is for beginning and intermediate-level “telepractitioners” and “telesupervisors” wishing to deliver telemental health services in these disciplines:
- Psychiatrists, Internists, Pediatricians, Gerontologists, Nurses, Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners
- Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Therapists, Marriage & Family Therapists
- Speech Pathologists, Dietitians, Occupational Therapists, Behavioral Analysts, Substance Use Professionals
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Faculty
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Dr. Marty Klein has been a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist and Certified Sex Therapist for over 40 years. He is the award-winning author of seven books.
Every year Marty is quoted in various American media, such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, and National Public Radio. His Sexual Intelligence blog for Psychology Today is a widely-quoted source of innovative thinking and information about sexuality, psychology, politics, and the media. Marty is frequently asked to give expert testimony in American and international courts. He recently gave two US Congressional briefings on evidence-based sex education. Marty has given over 1,000 keynote speeches and training programs to groups of psychologists, nurses, physicians, attorneys, and policymakers. He has trained professionals in thirty-five countries, including China, India, Morocco, and Ukraine. Audiences around the world describe Marty’s presentations as thought-provoking, practical, and entertaining. |
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Dr. Marlene Maheu has been a pioneer in telemental health for almost three decades. With five textbooks, dozens of book chapters, and journal articles to her name and educated more than 50k clinicians from 109 countries, she is in a unique position to guide you or your organization in finding a maximally profitable niche in telehealth. She is the Founder and CEO of Telehealth.org. She is the CEO of the Coalition for Technology in Behavioral Science (CTiBS), and the Founder of the Journal for Technology in Behavioral Science.
She has assisted in writing standards and guidelines for national associations and was the Chair of the CTiBS Competency Committee that published the first telebehavioral health competency framework. She has been interviewed by dozens of leading newspapers and magazines, keynoted, and taught hundreds of telehealth-related workshops internationally. Dr. Maheu is a master at getting to the point and answering your questions with straightforward, actionable, evidence-based suggestions that quickly move you to your goal. She will delight you with her clinical acumen and make you smile at how simple many solutions can be when explained by a professional with decades of passionate telehealth training experience. Bring your notepad — you’ll leave with pages of practical to-do’s! |
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