Transforming Sexual Narratives

 Earn 3 CE Contact Hour

This workshop will offer an approach that addresses sexual problems through Narrative Relational Sex Therapy where therapists help clients identify and rewrite conscious and unconscious mistaken, negative narratives to reclaim pleasure, intimacy, and satisfaction in their erotic lives. Integrating psychodynamic, couple & family systems, and cognitive-behavioral sex therapy, this approach describes a way of understanding and addressing the complex interrelationship among personal, social, cultural, and familial sexual narratives.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

• To describe various models of sexual response
• To conduct a culturally sensitive relational sexual history identifying conscious and unconscious sexual narratives
• To develop clinical interventions that integrate psychodynamic, systems, and cognitive behavioral approaches

Who Should Attend:

Therapists and mental health professionals interested in deepening their understanding of sexual narratives and learning practical, integrative interventions for couple and sex therapy.

Meet Dr. Iasenza:

Suzanne Iasenza, PhD is on the faculties of the Adelphi University Derner Institute’s Postgraduate Program in Psychoanalysis, and the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy (ICP), where she is Co-Founder of the Sex Therapy Training Program (STP). She also teaches at the Ackerman Institute for the Family, the Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy and the Family Institute of Westchester. She maintains a private practice in psychotherapy and sex therapy in New York. Her latest book, Transforming Sexual Narratives: A Relational Approach to Sex Therapy recently received an award for exceptional merit from the Society for Sex Therapy and Research.