Ackerman Institute for the Family Sexual Attitude Reassessment (SAR) Seminar

This training is part of the Ackerman Institute for the Family’s sex therapy course collection. Our programs offer expert sex therapy training and education to mental health professionals. The Ackerman Institute for the Family is an AASECT-Approved Continuing Education Organizational Provider.

Ackerman Institute for the Family, an AASECT-Approved Continuing Education Organizational Provider, presents the Sexual Attitude Reassessment (SAR) seminar. The 14-hour SAR is a requirement for certification as an American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT) Certified Sex Educator, Counselor or Therapist.

This virtual 14-hour (2-day) SAR is an experiential process-oriented seminar that attends to social identities and locations, such as race, ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, ability, age, religion, spirituality, and gender identity in exploring sexual values, attitudes, behaviors, and biases. This SAR includes lectures, media, experiential methods, activities, and small group discussions. The SAR aims to deepen participants’ awareness of the self, including their own social identities, values, behaviors, attitudes, and biases (conscious and unconscious), and how the self of the professional impacts the helping relationship. This SAR will also challenge participants to look outside of the scope of what they know regarding sex and sexuality.

Schedule:

May 1st – 2nd, 2026
9:30 am – 6:00 pm (ET)

Presenters:

Natalie A.N. Elliott, LPC, LMFT, CST, CPCS, CST-S is an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist and Sex Therapy Supervisor specializing in helping individuals and couples improve their sexual relationships. Natalie received her Master’s degree in Professional Counseling from Argosy University and has taught at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. She holds licenses as a Professional Counselor and Marriage & Family Therapist. Natalie is currently working exclusively in her private counseling practice in North Atlanta, where she enjoys supporting her clients and training new therapists in the sexuality field. For more information, please visit www.AtlantaSexTherapy.com.

Hailey Rowe-Mabee is a licensed Mental health counselor based out of Nashville, Tennessee. Hailey owns and runs her own therapy group practice called All Parts Therapy Group. She specializes in sexual issues such as pain with sex, sexual dysfunction, couple’s issues with sex, male sexual issues, kink, poly/ENM, and deconstructing the impact of purity culture. In addition to sex therapy, she enjoys working with couples, OCD, men’s issues, LGBTQIA+, self-worth, and life transitions. Hailey brings in lived experience working for arts activist non-profit work and the film and music industry into her understanding of client work. When not working, she spends time outside her office with her two small kids, partner, horse, and two donkeys.

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