Training for Therapists

The Myths and Realities of Sexual Addiction: How Sex on the Download (TM) Affects Relationships Spring 2012 – all 4 sessions

• Week 1 – Shame: Cause or effect? Does it turbo-charge hyper-sexuality or decrease desire?
• Week 2 – Addiction: When is it an excuse? Differentiate and develop a concise treatment plan.
• Week 3 – Love: Helping partners heal: Trauma, abuse, and its long term effect on relationships.
• Week 4 – Recovery: Who defines it? Short and long term prognosis for both individuals and couples.

A one hour class with Dr. Tammy Nelson & Dr. Marty Klein
1-2 pm EST — May 24, 2012
Cost: NO CHARGE for this introductory class! We will soon be announcing a multi-part teleclass to start in the fall which will be approved for CE credit.

REGISTER HERE for this free class

Dr. Tammy Nelson & Dr. Marty Klein will share the 10 things you need to know regarding common myths about sex, and how they shape pleasure, function, intimacy, satisfaction, diagnosis and treatment.

Learn how the things you think you know about sex may be undermining your own pleasure and satisfaction as well as that of your clients.

Learn the ten things you should be telling your clients about sex.

Join us and find out how to be more sexually intelligent and get the sex you want, today.

Dr. Marty Klein is the author of the new release, Sexual Intelligence: What We Really Want From Sex, And How to Get It (HarperCollins).

Dr. Tammy Nelson is the author of Getting the Sex You Want; Shed Your Inhibitions and Reach New Heights of Passion Together (Quiver).

A Teleseminar for Health Professionals

Spring 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 aftermath of trauma is a number-one reason both individuals and couples seek relationship counseling and sex therapy. Yet most health professionals lack the training and supervision that enable them to help clients negotiate this complex subject and reconnect with their authentic sexual selves. 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 among participants, 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; Tammy Nelson: Getting the Sex You Want

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  ***

Fee includes 5 CE Credits for AASECT and Imago; plus 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. 

Session 1—April 25: Stories the Body Tells: The psychophysiology of sexual trauma and PTSD.

Session 2—May 2: Avoidance, Risk, Compulsivity: How abuse, disease, and betrayal lead clients to disconnect from authentic sexual pleasure.

Session 3—May 9: Turning the Tide: Helping couples develop sexual coping skills and empathic connection.

Session 4—May 16:  Mindfulness, visualization, and the brain:  Awareness techniques to reconnect body, mind, heart, and spirit.

Session 5—May 23:  Sexual Authenticity and Erotic Connection:  Recovering from infidelity and other relationship traumas.

Through lecture and experiential exercises, you will learn engaging and practical strategies to help individuals and couples address the sexual sequelae of trauma and PTSD by…

1) Recognizing at least four psychophysiological consequences of abuse, disease, or other traumatic events.

2) Assessing how trauma contributes to relational dysfunction, infidelity, affairs, and compulsive use of pornography.

3) Identifying at least three strategies to help individuals and couples ask honestly for what they want and need.

4) Practicing six potent techniques for helping clients attain positive sexual relationships

5) Discerning when to empower clients by collaborating with them on strategies for their own recovery.

• Week 1- Sex and Love: We will explore what creates desire and rejection.
• Week 2- Sex and Attachment: Power and differentiation in the desire discrepancy cycle.
• Week 3- Sex and Therapy: Couples therapy with individuals and other challenges to traditional treatment.
• Week 4- Sex and Power: Engage couples in the exploration of control – in and out of bed.
• Week 5- Sex and Aging: Beyond menopause and andropause; learn how erotic age is different than real age.

• Week 1 – Stages of Internet Infidelity Recovery Purchase Week 1 Separately ($50)
• Week 2 – Renegotiating Rules & Boundaries Purchase Week 2 Separately ($50)
• Week 3 – Managing Disclosure versus Discovery Purchase Week 3 Separately ($50)
• Week 4 – Negotiating Privacy versus Secrecy Purchase Week 4 Separately ($50)

Five Session Teleclass
with Esther Perel and Tammy Nelson

Five Tuesdays:
March 13, 20, April 3, 10, 24, 2012
2-3 pm EST

$249 total

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.

Esther Perel and Tammy Nelson take the conversation about sex, love and power to a new level once again. The Spring 2012 teleseminar led  by two of the forerunners in the field of sexuality and human relationships tackles some of the most difficult topics surrounding sexuality and partnerships and introduces break-through ideas, new skills and cutting edge interventions.

• Week 1- Sex and Love: We will explore what creates desire and rejection.
• Week 2- Sex and Attachment: Power and differentiation in the desire discrepancy cycle.
• Week 3- Sex and Therapy: Couples therapy with individuals and other challenges to traditional treatment.
• Week 4- Sex and Power: Engage couples in the exploration of control – in and out of bed.
• Week 5- Sex and Aging: Beyond menopause and andropause; learn how erotic age is different than real age.

This applied clinical course includes didactic material, which draws from psychoanalytic and attachment theory, systemic and IMAGO therapy. Using case examples and experiential exercises, it addresses couples from all sexual orientations.

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.TammyNelson.org

• Week 1 – Stories the Body Tells: The psychophysiology of sexual trauma and PTSD
• Week 2 – Avoidance* Risk* Compulsivity: How abuse* disease* and betrayal lead clients to disconnect from authentic sexual pleasure
• Week 3 – Turning the Tide: Helping couples develop sexual coping skills and empathic connection
• Week 4 – Mindfulness* visualization* and the brain: Awareness techniques to reconnect body* mind* heart* and spirit
• Week 5 – Sexual Authenticity and Erotic Connection: Recovering from infidelity and other relationship traumas

• Week 1 – Purchase Week 1 Separately ($50)
• Week 2 – Purchase Week 2 Separately ($50)
• Week 3 – Cracking the erotic code Purchase Week 3 Separately ($50)
• Week 4 – Countertransference Purchase Week 4 Separately ($50)

A four part distance learning class with Dr. Joe Kort and Dr. Tammy Nelson

Four Tuesdays:
March 27, April 10, April 24, May 8, 2012 – 1 pm EST

COST: $199 

PRIOR ATTENDANCE NOT NECESSARY

This program is approved for 4 CE credits through both AASECT and Imago. These CE credits may be applied toward certification and renewal of certification.

Teleclasses are easy to join Live or to listen to Anytime - MP3s and exercises for couples included FREE and the expanded “Increasing Passion” ebook is included as a bonus if you sign up by January 6th.

This four week teleseminar will address the myths and realities of the hottest topic around: Sex addiction; Is it real? This class is appropriate for anyone who is concerned about sexual addiction, compulsive online sexual behaviors or infidelity issue that feels out of control to the “user” and/or their partner.

Hear from top experts about what pathology means and what it looks like, and identify what it is not. This class will address:

• What is hypersexuality and what is simply “normal” enjoyment of sex?
• How do we help those who need it and avoid labeling those who don’t?

Week 1 – Shame: Cause or effect? Does it turbo-charge hyper-sexuality or decrease desire?

Week 2 – Addiction: When is it an excuse? Differentiate and develop a concise treatment plan.

Week 3 – Love: Helping partners heal: Trauma, abuse, and its long term effect on relationships.

Week 4 – Recovery: Who defines it? Short and long term prognosis for both individuals and couples.

We will talk about real life cases and show both sides of this hotly debated topic. When the course is over, you will be clearer about the newest research, brain science and case studies that show what “sex on the download”TM really means for relationships in this new age of digital connection.

• Week 1 – The Sexual Dependency Syndrome Purchase Separately ($50)
• Week 2 – Cracking the erotic code Purchase Separately ($50)
• Week 3 – Disclosure to spouse Purchase Separately ($50)
• Week 4 – Erotic Recovery after Sex Addiction Purchase Separately ($50)