Suzanne Iasenza – From Dysfunction to Erotic Discovery: Transforming the Sexual Narrative

Description Of From Dysfunction to Erotic Discovery: Transforming the Sexual Narrative

When couples come to therapy with problems involving desire, arousal, and orgasm, therapists often fall into the trap of thinking of them as somehow broken and in need of fixing.

This is often not the case!

Don’t risk leaving your clients without the help they came to you for. Join sex therapist expert and author Suzanne Iasenza, PhD, in this recording and learn an approach that guides couples from a state of disconnection to becoming a sexual-discovery team exploring their own idiosyncratic pathway to pleasure.

What you’ll learn in From Dysfunction to Erotic Discovery: Transforming the Sexual Narrative

Objectives

1. Employ a detailed relational sexual history for partners to help them understand their current sexual narratives and how to create more liberating stories.
2. Demonstrate techniques to empower both partners to make explicit their “menus” for preferred sexual activities as a way of expanding their repertoire for more genuine erotic satisfaction.
3. Determine how to help couples use sensate focus as a meditative tool to enhance their sexual development.

Specifically, you’ll learn a three-part therapeutic process to help couples find alternatives to rigid scripts about what fulfilling sexuality is supposed to be like. You’ll explore how to:

1. Conduct a Detailed Sexual History

• Help clients understand their current sexual narratives
• How to create more liberating stories for each partner

2. Empowering Both Partners

• Make explicit each partner’s “menu” for preferred sexual activities
• Expanding partners’ repertoire for more genuine erotic satisfaction

3. Meditative Tools to Teach Couples

• Sensate focus
• Considerations in clinical practice when working with clients to enhance their sexual development

Outline

• Conduct a Detailed Sexual History
• Help clients understand their current sexual narratives
• How to create more liberating stories for each partner
• Empowering Both Partners
• Make explicit each partner’s “menu” for preferred sexual activities
• Expanding partners’ repertoire for more genuine erotic satisfaction
• Meditative Tools to Teach Couples
• Sensate focus
• Considerations in clinical practice when working with clients to enhance their sexual development

Target Audience

• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Psychologists(For CE Credit)
• Psychotherapists
• Therapists
• Addiction Counselors
• Case Managers
• Nurses

About Suzanne Iasenza

Suzanne Iasenza, PhD, is faculty at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy where she is co-director of the Sex Therapy Program and teaches at the Ackerman Institute for the Family. She is author of the book Transforming Sexual Narratives: A Relational Approach to Sex Therapy.

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Suzanne Iasenza maintains a private practice and has employment relationships with Adelphi University and the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy. She receives royalties as a published author. Suzanne Iasenza receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.

Non-financial: Suzanne Iasenza is a member of the American Psychological Association, Member, the Association for Women in Psychology, the Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists, the Society for Sex Therapy and Research, the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, and the American Family Therapy Academy.

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