• Wired for Sex – week 1 – Diagnosing Sexual Disorders Purchase Separately ($50)
• Wired for Sex – week 2 – Understanding & Repairing Sexual Dysfunction Purchase Separately ($50)
• Wired for Sex – week 3 – Addressing Non-Sexual Meanings of Sexual Behaviors Purchase Separately ($50)
• Wired for Sex – week 4 – Developing Erotic Intimacy After Infidelity Purchase Separately ($50)

Monogamy : Making it Work
Beyond Biology and After Infidelity

  Are you struggling to navigate your own relationship?  Or do you watch your clients struggle to stay together and stay monogamous, remain passionate or even try to recover from affairs? This course can help.

The new monogamy is a fresh look at relationships with a view at our history, what works now and what isn’t helping. We will discover why we hurt each other while we strive to be happy and stay passionate and how we can stop. This course can help any couple recover from infidelity create the relationship of their dreams.

1-2 pm EST
May 29, June 5, 12, 2012

Cost: $149
Approved for 3 AASECT and Imago CEs

Infidelity Intervention Supervision

4-6 pm Eastern, June 26, July 17, Aug 21, Sep 18, Oct 23, and Nov 20, 2012

by Dr. Tammy Nelson

This class was so popular that we have decided to offer this again.  We are going to offer the Infidelity Intervention supervision teleclass as a once a month, two hour teleclass.  We will be offering  6 sessions – for over the next six months.  Join LIVE and have your case questions answered each week or listen to the download at your convenience.  Your emails will also be addressed directly as part of the supervision group.  Included in your costs are the group interaction with other members, after and in between each class. And if you send in an email with your supervision questions and cases, they can be integrated into each week’s course.

Sign up for ONE or all SIX months. Remember you do not have to attend each class LIVE, and each recording is your to keep and listen to at your leisure.  You will also receive downloads of reading material, handouts, worksheets, articles, references and other resources, as well as helpful projects from other students in the teleclass.

Also included in the series is a group interactive listserve where your case questions can be answered by Dr Nelson and all of the other professional colleagues that are attending throughout the series.  This can be invaluable for your process in working with infidelity.

Sign up for course now, either by the month at the regular low price of $99 for the 2 hour class, which includes the handouts and reading materials and the downloadable recording.  Or, if you register for all six months, pay only $594, payable by MC or Visa.

Dates for the Infidelity Interventions Teleclass are June 26, July 17, Aug 21, Sep 18, Oct 23, and Nov 20 and remember, join LIVE or listen to the downloadable recording at your leisure.

We can only accept Mastercard and Visa.

Beyond Sexual Trauma

Effective Assessment, Treatment, and Recovery

Part II: Transforming Fear

You do not need to have taken Part I to participate in this class.

A Teleseminar for Health Professionals

Fall 2012, Five Wednesdays (see schedule below)

Gina Ogden, PhD, LMFT www.GinaOgden.com

& Tammy Nelson, PhD, LPC www.DrTammyNelson.com

“You two are absolutely superb trainers.”
- Dr. Patti Britton, Co-founder of Sex Coach U; Past President, American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists

It is well known that the immobilizing fear that follows trauma is a major reason both individuals and couples seek relationship counseling and sex therapy. Yet most health professionals lack the training and supervision to help clients reenergize and reconnect with their authentic sexual selves. This series offers safe, tested techniques you can use immediately in client sessions. Tammy Nelson, an Imago therapist and sexologist, and Gina Ogden, a sex therapist, researcher, and supervisor, combine their decades of expertise in a series of practice-oriented teleseminars that offer information to help clinicians assess and treat a wide range of sexual problems that result from trauma. They encourage questions, and provide specific case consultation.

Who should attend: Physicians, Nurses, Social Workers, Family Therapists, Sex Therapists, and others with clients and patients for whom sexual health and desire are issues. Our attendees participate from all over the US, Canada, Europe, Australia, and Asia.

Recommended Reading: Gina Ogden: The Return of Desire: A Guide to Rediscovering Your Sexual Passion; Tammy Nelson: Getting the Sex You Want: Shed Your Inhibitions and Reach New Heights of Passion Together

All sessions meet by telephone from 12:00-1:00 pm US Eastern Time. Call from anywhere in the world.

Call-in numbers are provided on registration. Registrants immediately receive recordings of all sessions, even if they cannot attend in person.

*** Entire series: $249***

Teleseminar fee includes 5 CE Credits for AASECT; exercises, worksheets, references, resource lists, group e-mail support, individualized attention to participants’ supervision issues, and the option of case consultation with Drs. Ogden and Nelson.

*You do not have to have taken Part I of this Trauma series to participate in this class. To purchase & download Part I, go to https://www.drtammynelson.com/products-page/training-for-therapists/

Session 1— Oct 10: When Pleasure Becomes a Dirty Word:  How clients’ fears block sexual desire and joy.

If you are feeling stuck with your clients and unsure how to move them into relaxed awareness and healing relationships, they may be having a trauma response that is blocking them from fully living in their sexual expression. Learn ways to help them release pain, trauma and memory.

Session 2— Oct 17: The Roots of Sexual Resistance: Why your clients are still in shock and what to do about it.

Brain research, neuroscience, body and somatic studies, all reveal that there are many ways that people hold onto trauma energetically and emotionally, and that just because trauma is stored in the body doesn’t mean it can never be unpacked.

Session 3— Oct 24: Mobilizing Stuck Clients: Innovative techniques for transforming sexual fears and phobias

The newest in research and interventions – including some you may never have heard of.   This week will give you specific techniques for working with trauma that will focus on ways to work with blocks and move clients forward into intimacy.

Session 4— Oct 31: Life Beyond Sexual Fear: Helping clients open themselves to erotic curiosity. and love.

Many trauma clients feel hopeless and depressed, experiencing anxiety, long term relationship issues, substance abuse, and other addictions.  Letting go of fears and opening frozen neural pathways can help clients to move beyond the fear and into a new curiousity about sex and romantic love.

Session 5— Nov 7: Transforming Our Own Fears: Using countertransference to help clients recover sexual  authenticity.

Therapists and healers are often confused about how to use their own trauma experiences to help their clients. Boundaries are traditionally rigid and we are unclear what to do when we are triggered in the sessions or by our clients issues.  Learn ways to be authentic and have your own genuine expression in the sessions while using your work for your own personal and spiritual growth.

Affairs and Forgiveness

A two part teleclass presented by

Dr. Tammy Nelson & Dr. Janis Abrahms Spring

October 17 & 24, 2012 at 2pm Eastern

Approved for 2 CEs through AASECT & Imago

Cost: $99 (Save $25 if you register before September 15!)

After an affair, most couples struggle with issues around rebuilding trust, earning forgiveness, and moving toward a shared future. As a therapist, it’s easy to feel ineffective or lost in the treatment. Common dilemmas in affair recovery often surface around secret keeping, both in the therapy as well as in the primary relationship. Forgiveness can be a stuck place as well. In this class we’ll learn how to help couples work through these major stumbling blocks. This two-part class will address questions such as:

After an affair:

• is it best to work with partners individually or as a couple?
• how are secrets managed in couples therapy?
• what are the advantages and disadvantages of revealing an affair?
• how can partners constructively talk about the details of the affair?
• what does it mean to forgive?
• is forgiveness necessary?
• can trust be rebuilt (in cyberspace and in the flesh)?
• how do couples work towards forgiveness?

This two-part workshop will provide a radical model of treatment for affair recovery and provide concrete exercises for guiding couples through the healing process.

Teleclasses are easy to join Live or to listen to Anytime - MP3s and exercises for couples included FREE. Call from anywhere in the world. Call-in numbers are provided on registration. Registrants immediately receive recordings of all sessions, even if they cannot attend in person.

Janis Abrahms Spring, Ph.D., ABPP, is a nationally acclaimed expert on issues of trust, intimacy, and forgiveness. Her book, After the Affair: Healing the Pain and Rebuilding Trust When a Partner Has Been Unfaithful, has sold more than 500,000 copies. A completely updated second edition with a new chapter on affairs in cyberspace will be released September, 2012. She is also author of the awarding-winning, How Can I Forgive You? The Courage to Forgive, the Freedom Not To, and Life with Pop: Lessons on Caring for an Aging Parent. www.janisaspring.com 

Tammy Nelson, PhD, LPC, 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 the upcoming The New Monogamy: Redefining Relationships After Infidelity. Dr. Nelson lectures and trains internationally on sex and relationships.  www.DrTammyNelson.com

Advances in Couples Therapy: Treating the Untreatable – Sexual Desire, Infidelity, & Divorce

Five Session Teleclass with Esther Perel and Tammy Nelson

Five Tuesdays: October 16, 23, 30, Nov 6, 13, 2012 —  12-1 pm EST

$249 total ($50 discount if you register before Oct 1, 2012)

This program is approved for 5 CE credits through both AASECT and Imago. These CE credits may be applied toward certification and renewal of certification.

Join two world-renowned sexuality and relationship experts for another exciting and rewarding course exploring clinical perspectives and interventions for the really tough situations of couples struggling with desire, affairs and even divorce. Using case examples and hands-on interventions, this teleseminar will focus on the seemingly hopeless crises and make-or-break stalemates, and will provide tools enabling both the therapist and client to shift into a new vision for the couple – and a new future for the therapeutic relationship and marriage.

Throughout the course, participants will receive case consultation and supervision while directly posing their questions and concerns to Ms. Perel and Dr. Nelson.

We will address how to:

• Create a safe, culturally informed, non-judgmental therapeutic environment to work with confidentiality, transparency, revelation, privacy and truth-telling.
• Help couples negotiate their sexual styles, take emotional risks, learn sexual communication, define monogamy and discuss attachment maps, while also examining the paradox of love and desire in long-term commitment.
• Process accountability and re-envision a post-affair relationship, explore erotic recovery, erotic blueprints and sexual empathy, including case examples and interventions.
• Help couples end outside affairs with integrity, decide when divorce is the best option, teach how to leave with integrity and address self-esteem and shame as separate partners.

Recognized as one of the world’s most original and insightful voices on erotic intelligence, Esther Perel, LMFT, is the author of the international best-seller, Mating in Captivity. Fluent in nine languages, she is a master trainer, lecturer and workshop leader invited around the globe for her expertise ranging from couples therapy and intermarriage to culture and sexuality. Esther holds an active psychotherapy practice in New York City. www.estherperel.com

Tammy Nelson, PhD, LPC, 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 the upcoming The New Monogamy: Redefining Your Relationship After Infidelity, and lectures and trains internationally on sex and relationships.  www.DrTammyNelson.com

The Nature of Libido: Attachment, Playfulness and Sexual Pleasure

One hour teleclass by Dr. Tammy Nelson & Dr. Stella Resnick

12pm EST, October 25, 2012

Our sex drive is more resilient than we typically give it credit for. Despite the fact that it’s intertwined with attachment style from earliest childhood, affected by stress, trauma, commitment, monogamy, raising children, medication, and hormonal changes, much can be done to enhance it. Join us for this one-hour teleclass to take an in-depth look at what makes libido so responsive to playfulness and how it plays such a crucial role in our sexual pleasure.

Cost: $49 (Includes one CE from AASECT)

Fee includes 1 CE Credit for AASECT; exercises, worksheets, references, resource lists, group e-mail support, individualized attention to participants’ supervision issues, and the option of case consultation with Drs. Resnick and Nelson. Call from anywhere in the world. Call-in number provided on registration. Registrants immediately receive recordings of session, even if they cannot attend in person. 

Sexual Dilemmas in Couples Therapy

Three part teleseminar by Dr. Tammy Nelson & Dr. Marty Klein

January 10, 17, 24, 2013

All sessions meet by telephone from 1 – 2 pm US Eastern Time. Call from anywhere in the world.

Dr. Tammy Nelson and Dr. Marty Klein, internationally-recognized sex therapists and authors, will explore the top sexual concerns encountered in couples therapy, and present strategies and techniques to help resolve these challenging cases.

Who should attend: Physicians, Nurses, Social Workers, Family Therapists, Sex Therapists, and others with clients and patients for whom sexual health and desire are issues. Our attendees participate from all over the US, Canada, Europe, Australia, and Asia.

Call-in numbers are provided on registration. Registrants immediately receive recordings of all sessions, even if they cannot attend in person.

*** Entire series: $149 ***

Includes 3 CE Credits for AASECT and for California MFTs and LCSWs; exercises, worksheets, resource lists, group email support, individualized attention to participants’ supervision issues, and the option of case consultation with Drs. Klein and Nelson.

Session 1— Jan 10: “Secrets” — Our own and our patients’; stereotypes about men, women, sex & intimacy; resistance, privacy, transparency

Session 2— Jan 17: “Desire” — Initiation, religious values, kinky sex, when non-sexual conflict prevents sex, value conflicts in and out of bed

Session 3— Jan 24: “Honesty” – Our own and our patients’, telling the truth and envy, self-disclosure, countertransference, tradition, lack of information, the influence of personal values, judgment, etc.

Recommended Reading:

Marty Klein: Sexual Intelligence: What We Really Want From Sex, And How to Get It (HarperCollins);

Tammy Nelson: Getting the Sex You Want: Shed Your Inhibitions and Reach New Heights of Passion Together (Quiver)