Dates: June 11, 12, and 13 online via Zoom, 12:00 EST - 5 pm EST / 9 am - 2 pm PST each day
Have you experienced the dilemma of helping couples achieve greater emotional connection through EFT, and yet found that this does not always translate directly into greater sexual desire, contact and flexibility between the partners?
This workshop will present a frame for understanding that dilemma, and offer approaches for more fully integrating sexual concerns into our EFT work, with the goal of helping couples take new risks with each other so that they can share a more vibrant sexual connection. This workshop will include:
how to decipher the map of a couple’s sexual cycle;
how to do thorough assessment of each partner’s sexual history, taking into the account the context of the client’s intersecting identities;
understanding sexual responses and freezes within an attachment frame;
interventions that help create a secure base of “safe touch";
how to identify and work with our own natural therapist blocks to processing sexually explicit and intimate material with our clients.
Participants will be able to:
Analyze a couple’s sexual relationship distress from an attachment frame, and outline a couple’s negative sexual cycle.
Describe good process and relevant content for taking a thorough sexual history.
Identify 2 or more models of sexual engagement and response, including the Dual Control Model of Sexuality.
Outline interventions to help couples restart “safe touch,” including Sensate Focus and other mindful touch interventions.
List markers within the clinical process that indicate good timing to introduce touch exercises.
Outline an approach to introduce and process with a couple their sexual touch exercises for maximum effectiveness.
Demonstrate increased self-awareness of possible blocks to one’s own comfort and flexibility in processing sexual content in couples therapy.