Tammy Nelson – Low-Sex and Sexless Couples

Description Of Low-Sex and Sexless Couples

This workshop recording will uncover where lack of desire originates in sexless and low-sex couples and how to treat desire discrepancy using contemporary interventions and treatment models.

Through real case studies, we’ll focus on three areas that are often at the root of low- or no-sex marriages—pleasure resistance, pleasure avoidance, and pleasure rejection—and the most effective strategies to help couples achieve sexual empathy and long-term erotic recovery.

Objectives

1. Apply effective strategies to work with couples around pleasure disorders: avoidance, denial and rejection
2. Explain the latest treatment interventions for arousal dysfunction and renewing desire to improve clinical outcomes
3. Assess how treatment approaches when treating sexual dysfunction in couples

Outline

Introduction

• Seeking Pleasure
• What is Normal?

Desire Discrepancy

• Hypoactive Sexual Disorders in Women Today
• History of Hyperactive Sexual Disorders in Women
• Desire vs. Arousal
• Modern Diagnosing Categories of Sexual Dysfunctions
• 4 Things that Affect Sexual Function
• Performance vs. Pleasure
• Pleasure Disorders

Sex in Relationships

• Stage of the Relationship
• Relationship Discrepancy
• Eros Needed to Nurture Sexual Relationships

Contemporary Sex Therapy & Treatment Interventions

• Working on the Erotic
  • Pleasure Resistance
  • Pleasure Denial
  • Pleasure Avoidance
  • Pleasure Rejection
• Monogamous Agreements
• Individuation vs. Attachment

Renewing & Rekindling

• Appreciation Dialog
• Identifying Things You Want to Try
• Assumptions

Target Audience

• Psychologists
• Physicians
• Addiction Counselors
• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Nurses
• Other Behavioral Health Professionals

About Tammy Nelson

Tammy Nelson, Ph.D., is an internationally acclaimed psychotherapist, Board Certified Sexologist, Certified Sex Therapist, and Certified Imago Relationship Therapist. She has been a therapist for almost 30 years and is the executive director of the Integrative Sex Therapy Institute. She started the institute to develop courses for psychotherapists as the need grew for certified, integrated postgraduate sex and couple’s therapists in a growing field of mental health consumers who need more complex interventions for their relationship needs.

Dr. Tammy is a TEDx speaker, Psychotherapy Networker Symposium speaker and the author of several books, including Getting the Sex You Want: Shed Your Inhibitions and Reach New Heights of Passion Together (Quiver, 2008) and the best-selling The New Monogamy: Redefining Your Relationship After Infidelity (New Harbinger, 2013), as well as When You’re the One Who Cheats: Ten Things You Need to Know (RL Publishing Corp., 2019) and the upcoming Integrative Sex and Couples Therapy (PESI, 2020).

She has been a featured expert in New York Times Magazine, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, CNN, Rolling Stone magazine, TIME Magazine, Redbook, Glamour, The Sun, and The London Times.

She is the host of a popular podcast on iTunes, “The Trouble with Sex”, and writes for the Huffington Post, YourTango, ThriveGlobal, and medium.com. Dr. Tammy can be followed on her blog, www.drtammynelson.com/blog.

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Dr. Tammy Nelson maintains a private practice. She is the executive director at Integrated Sex Therapy Training Institute and has employment relationships with Daybreak University and the California Institute of Integral Studies. Dr. Nelson receives compensation as a presenter and consultant. She receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.

Non-financial: Dr. Tammy Nelson serves on the dissertation committee for the American Academy of Clinical Sexology and the International Institute of Clinical Sexology. She is a member of the American Association of Sex Educators, Sex Counselors, and Sex Therapists, the Imago Relationships International Association of Professional and Certified Therapists, the International Board of Sexologists, and other organizations. For a complete list, please contact [email protected].

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