Dr. Tammy Nelson – Integrative Sex & Couples Therapy: Innovative Clinical Interventions to Treat Relationship & Desire Issues in the New Era of Sexuality in Psychotherapy
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- Faculty:
- Dr. Tammy Nelson
- Duration:
- 5 Hours 45 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
- Feb 25, 2020
Description
Handouts
| Manual – Integrative Sex & Couples Therapy (1.3 MB) | 43 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Outline
Sexuality: The New Model of What’s Normal
- Challenges of sex therapy & couples therapy
- How the treatment of women has changed
- What are you afraid clients will bring up?
- Target multiple levels of sexuality
- Cultural definitions of sexual pathology & wellness
- Model of sexual wellness
Address Sexual & Relational Needs
- Why we choose partners with different needs
- Clusters of needs & their treatment implications
- The different types of erotic needs
- How relationship phases affect erotic needs
- Strategies to address countertransference
Desire Discrepancies: Interventions for the Most Common Issue Couples Face
- The cycle of arousal & its clinical impact
- The prerequisite of arousal
- Address relational avoidance
- How to renew & rekindle desire
Pleasure Disorders & Their Treatment
- Pleasure vs. performance
- Types of pleasure denial
- Empower women to have pleasure
- Interventions for pleasure denial
Integration: A Treatment Model
The Relationship Trauma Triangle
- Why the current therapy model isn’t working
- How to avoid being drawn into conflicts
- Separation, betrayal, trust & identity
- The integration model
Interventions for Each Phase of Treatment
- Elicit sexual narratives
- Teach a focus on appreciation
- Integrate the four areas of sexual meaning
- Build upon pleasure & connection
The Crisis Phase of Treatment
- Assess for relationship & individual risk
- Delay the “stay or go” decision
- Teach relationship skills
- Tools for clients to deal with intense affect
- Focus on decreasing fatigue & pressure
Strategies for the Insight Phase
- Explore the “how did we get here?”
- Address attachment issues
- Create an attachment vs. individuation plan
- Exercises for couples
- Appreciate & expand on what’s working
The Vision Phase of Treatment
- Erotic recovery
- Focus on fantasy & pleasure
- 6 weeks of sex dates protocol
- Create a new monogamy agreement
- Limitations of the research & potential risks
Faculty
Dr. Tammy Nelson, Ph.D. Related seminars and products: 13
www.drtammynelson.com
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: Tammy Nelson maintains a private practice. She is the executive director at the Integrated Sex Therapy Training Institute. She receives royalties as an author for FairWinds Press and New Harbinger Press. Dr. Nelson receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
Non-financial: Tammy Nelson is a member of the American Association of Sex Educators, Sex Counselors, and Sex Therapists (AASECT); and the American Counseling Association.
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