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UPCOMING EVENTS

Tuesday
Jan122010

COUPLES INTENSIVES

COUPLES INTENSIVES

Live far from Connecticut?

 

Want to come in for several hours of intensive work on your relationship? On your sex life? Work through years of conflicts?  Frustrations?  Dont have time for weekly therapy sessions?

 

Intensives are dynamic and focused on your issues as a couple - they are a proivate session with Tammy, for as many hours as you need.

 

Call or email for more info

203 438 3007 or tammy@tammynelson.org  

Saturday
Jan302010

RENEW YOUR RELATIONSHIP AFTER AN AFFAIR

Intensives for Couples

Begin the process of renewing and renegotiating your relationship, integrate the betrayal, process anger and hurt, find a new love for each other and move into a new phase of your relationship.

Saturdays in 2010

9 am to 1 pm, Location: Ridgefield or New Haven Connecticut

Renewal workshop for couples recovering from Infidelity

Recent attendees are saying:

"I feel like we can move on in a new way, we have hope now - not to go back to what we had but to start something new."  Tom, Nov. 2009 (Intensive)

  
tammy@tammynelson.org

 Cost: le includes manuals (with discount code-please ask)


PAY NOW - DEPOSIT OF $200 WILL HOLD YOUR SPOT -  

Upcoming dates are limited - some availability in New Haven - ask for more information - only a few Saturdays left

Intensives focused on you and your partner alone with Tammy Nelson

 

Wednesday
May192010

SEMINAR: SEX And COUPLES 


Sex and Couples - Treatment Review for therapists
Class will include Case Review, focus on real couples or individuals and their treatment, didactic material, experiential exercises, and clinical applications.
Tammy Nelson PhD is a sex and relationship expert, an international speaker, an author and a licensed psychotherapist with over 20 years of experience working with individuals and couples and the author of a book for couples designed to help increase the passion in their relationship. She holds a Doctorate in Philosophy, a PhD in sexology from the American Academy of Clinical Sexology a Certified Sexologist, a Diplomate of the American Board of Sexology, is a Licensed Professional Counselor, is a Registered Art Therapist, and a Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor, a Certified Imago therapist, and an Advanced Clinician. She is the author of several books including, "Getting the Sex You Want; Shed Your Inhibitions and Reach New Heights of Passion Together" as well as “What’s Eating You? A Workbook for Anorexia and Bulimia.”
CEU: 7.5 CEU

Date: 7/15/2010 (8am-5pm)

Location: Four Point Sheraton, Meriden, CT

Price: $169

Early Bird special: $159 if paid by 6/23/2010, Internet Price if paid on-line by 5 pm on 6/23/10, only $149


Go to www.dandsassociates.org to register
Tuesday
Jun082010

The New Monogamy - Negotiating Love, Sex and Fidelity (Part 3)

  

 With Esther Perel and Tammy Nelson 

 

Four week Teleclass

 

NEW SESSION - Part 3 (you do not need to have attended Part 1 to sign up for this teleclass)

 

 

For therapists, doctors, couples, singles and anyone who wants to explore the way boundaries of fidelity are defined, justified, lived, and negotiated.  The course includes didactic material, experiential exercises, clinical applications, and in depth conversations.

 


  BEGINNING IN MAY 2010

 

Participants will learn how to:

  • Create a safe and non-judgmental therapeutic environment to work with secrets, confidentiality, transparency and truth-telling.
  • Structure the therapeutic process flexibly to help couples deal with the crisis of infidelity and move forward in their relationships, whether the affair is disclosed or not.
  • Process accountability and help couples re-envision their relationship in the aftermath of an affair, including case examples of erotic recovery from affairs.
  • Identify how monogamy and fidelity can be negotiated in couples using psychotherapy, sex therapy, and dynamic couples dialogue.
  • Learn the multicultural meanings of affairs, monogamy and fidelity and how they are integrated into all forms of relationships in the course of the life cycle.


$210 - $200 if you pay by April 1st 2010

To register and PAY NOW

 
 

Tuesday
Jun082010

Sex Addiction- Differential Diagnosis and Treatment - a teleclass

********************************************************************************************* Sex Addiction- Differential Diagnosis and Treatment - all NEW material

A four part teleclass

With Joe Kort and Tammy Nelson

What would you do with Tiger?

If you were treating Tiger Woods and his wife, would you have the tools to help?

There are many reasons someone experiences hypersexuality. The term Sexual Dependency Syndrome (SDS) allows for all the possibilities, including sexual addiction. Sexual fantasies and desires are the erotic code underlying addiction. Learn how to make a differential diagnosis, provide accurate and empathetic treatment for the patient and their partner, and examine your own countertransference which often interferes with treating sexually disordered patients.

TELECLASSES ARE ON-THE-PHONE CLASSES – YOU DO NOT NEED TO JOIN LIVE – YOU WILL RECEIVE A RECORDING OF THE CLASS TO LISTEN ON YOUR OWN TIME

MAY 18, 25/JUNE 1, 8  2010 2pm to 3pm

COST: $194 for four part series •

To REGISTER: Go to http:www/tammynelson.org/events/ or CLICK BELOW to pay with MC/VISA

NOTE: CEs applied for

 Week One - Sex Addiction - Is there such a thing, what it is, how to recognize it, and how to treat it -

Week Two – Going Inside Internet and Porn Addiction - chat rooms, web cams, paraphilias, fetishes,

Week three - Treating spouses and partners - disclosure, privacy vs secrecy, timing, healing, forgiveness, maintaining connection, erotic recovery

Week Four - Case Review - focus on three couples or individuals and their treatment.

Classes will include didactic material, experiential exercises, and clinical applications, as well as on phone, online and email conversations with presenters and participants.

Dr. Tammy Nelson is a Certified Sexologist, a Licensed Professional Counselor, a Certified Imago Therapist and the author of Getting the Sex You Want: Shed Your Inhibitions and Reach New Heights of Passion Together, and lectures and trains internationally on sex and relationships. 

Dr. Joe Kort, is a psychotherapist and Board Certified Sexologist who specializes in sexual identity issues, IMAGO relationship therapy, sex therapy and sexual addiction. He is the author of two books on gay male identity and relationships, Gay Affirmative Therapy for the Straight Clinician and has a chapter for female partners who are involved with men who have sex with men in Mending a Shattered Heart. He provides workshops for gays and lesbians as well as trainings for straight clinicians around the country. www.joekort.com

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Tuesday
Jun152010

Erotic Recovery: From Abuse, Neglect, and Infidelity

Two week teleseminar with Tammy Nelson

June 23, July 7, 2pm-3pm

Join Live or listen to recordings

For questions, contact

tammy@tammynelson.org

This class is appropriate for therapists &  health care professionals as well as couples &  individuals looking to improve their erotic lives.

Erotic Recovery From Neglect, Abuse and Infidelity; This teleclass will discuss ways that couples and individuals suffering from sexual and erotic symptoms that result from neglect or abuse, either in the past or during or during the relationship, including sex addiction, sexual anorexia, and other maladjustments of erotic hyper or hypo.  Specific attention will be spent on infidelity, either with others or with the self as a framework to talk about what is healthy recovery?  What does erotic recovery look like and how do you help couples and individuals find it?  Classes will include didactic material, experiential exercises, and clinical applications, as well as on phone, online and email conversations with presenter and participants.

Thursday
Jul012010

“The Return of Desire—Getting the Sex You Want”

“The Return of Desire—Getting the Sex You Want”

Fall 2010 teleseminar training and supervision series with Tammy Nelson and Gina Ogden

 

By telephone, 5 Wednesdays from 12–1:00 US Eastern time (call-in numbers provided on registration)

Registrants receive recordings of all sessions, even if they cannot attend in person.

 

Teleseminar fee includes CE Credits for AASECT, Imago, NASW; exercises, worksheets, references, resource lists, group e-mail support,

individualized attention to participants’ supervision issues, and the option of case consultation with Gina Ogden and Tammy Nelson.

 

Entire series: $250 ($200 if you register by August 10, 2010)

To Register: Electronic Registration: http://www.tammynelson.org/teleclasses/

or contact Tammy Nelson at tammy@tammynelson.org or 203-438-3007

Questions?  Please contact Gina (Gina@GinaOgden.com) or Tammy (Tammy@tammynelson.org ).