Sexuality issues are ever present in couples’ psychotherapy whether or not they are discussed. 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 the major theories of sexual response, how to conduct a sexual history and how to use it to develop a sexuality treatment plan within couples’ psychotherapy. Case material will be presented to illustrate how to integrate systems, psychodynamic and cognitive behavioral thinking, and technique to treat sexual concerns with a sensitivity toward similarities and differences between same-sex and opposite-sex couples. Discussion will include how therapists may examine their own assumptions and discomforts about sexuality while remaining open and useful to couples.

Faculty: Suzanne Iasenza, PhD, Faculty, Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and The Postgraduate Program in Marriage and Family Therapy at Adelphi University; co-editor of Lesbians and Psychoanalysis: Revolutions in Theory and Practice (1995) and Lesbians, Feminism and Psychoanalysis: The Second Wave (2004).

Date: Friday, February 29, 2008
Time: 10 am to 4 pm
Tuition: $115
CE Credits: 5

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