Workshop

Sexual Issues in Couples Therapy with Gay, Lesbian and Heterosexual Clients

Description

Sexuality issues can often be the elephant in the room in couples psychotherapy. Many couples therapists feel unprepared to delve into sexual issues because they have not had sufficient training in human sexuality. This workshop will cover the basics of theory and practice in dealing with sexuality issues in gay, lesbian, and heterosexual couples. Workshop participants will learn about expansive models of sexual responses and how to conduct and use a sexual history to develop a sexuality treatment plan within the framework of couples psychotherapy.

Case material will illustrate the integration of systems, psychodynamic, and cognitive behavioral thinking as well as the use of new approaches to standard sex therapy techniques. Discussion will include similarities and differences between same and opposite sex couples and how therapists may examine their own assumptions and discomforts around sexuality.

Faculty: Suzanne Iasenza, Ph.D., is Faculty at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and the Postgraduate Program in Marriage and Family Therapy at Adelphi University's Derner Institute; co-editor of Lesbians and Psychoanalysis: Revolutions in Theory and Practice (1995) and Lesbians, Feminism and Psychoanalysis: The Second Wave (2004). Her most recent article entitled: "What is Queer About Sex: Expanding Sexual Frames in Theory and Practice" was published in the journal Family Process (2010).

Date: Friday, January 27, 2012
Time: 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Tuition: $128
CE Credits: 5