Sexual Healing: Helping Our Clients Have Healthy Sex Lives after Trauma

Presented by: B Lourenco, MA, LMHC (she/her)

When: Friday, November 15th, 2024 | 9am – 4:30pm Pacific Time

Where: Live via Zoom. You’ll receive the Zoom link via email the week of the event.

CE Credit Hours: 6 Cultural Competence or Law & Ethics CEs | Cost: $169.00

As clinicians, most of us are aware that trauma greatly impacts the lives of our clients. However, a large majority of clinicians don’t know how to talk to their clients about sexuality, and subsequently, aren’t able to help their clients with trauma that has influenced their sex lives. Because of the shame-filled way our society treats sexuality, most people have a complicated relationship with it.

Experiencing attachment wounds can also be a major barrier to healthy sexual relationships. In addition, many people have been victims of sexual assault, and these experiences have a staggering impact on one’s sexuality.

Whether your client has experienced shame, infidelity, or relational/sexual trauma, their sex lives are likely impacted, and they may need our support to help them achieve the healthy relationship with sex that they’d like to have.

This course will go over the basics of human sexuality, including sexual and gender identities, as well as the roles of desire, arousal, and libido. This course will also explore how certain types of traumas may affect your clients sexually and how to intervene in supportive, sex-positive ways.

OBJECTIVES:

• Understand the process of human sexuality and development
• Recognize and describe how people develop healthy sexuality
• Identify the ways that historical experiences can impact sexual tastes and interests
• Clarify the differences between sexual and gender identity
• Discern the components of desire, arousal, and libido
• Describe the process of healthy sexual arousal
• Clarify how different types of traumas manifest in various impacts on one’s sexuality and sex life
• Realize and recognize what it means to be a sex-positive clinician
• Feel comfortable taking practical actionable steps to have a sex-positive practice
• Learn and implement practical interventions for sexual recovery