From Dysfunction to Erotic Discovery – Suzanne Iasenza

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When couples come to therapy with problems involving desire, arousal, and orgasm, therapists often fall into the trap of thinking of them as somehow broken and in need of fixing. Instead, this workshop offers an approach that guides couples from a state of disconnection to becoming a sexual-discovery team exploring their own idiosyncratic pathway to pleasure. You’ll learn a three-part therapeutic process to help couples find alternatives to rigid scripts about what fulfilling sexuality is supposed to be like.

1. Describe three ways traumatic memory presents in a client with PTSD
2. Incorporate sensorimotor interventions into treatments to decrease symptoms of PTSD in clients.
3. Incorporate Internal Family Systems interventions into treatments to decrease symptoms of PTSD in clients.
4. Apply psychoeducational principles to decrease symptoms of PTSD in clients
5. Define ‘implicit memory’ and breakdown its role in post-traumatic stress disorders
6. Differentiate characteristics of fight, flight, freeze, attach and submit parts
7. Articulate the role of suicidal ideation as an adaptation to traumatic events
8. Apply Sensorimotor and Internal Family Systems interventions for trauma survivors

Conducting a detailed sexual history 

• How to collect sexual history information in a conversational way  
• Identifying conscious and unconscious sexual narratives that affect sexuality 

Improving sexual communication in couples 

• How to co-create safe therapeutic space to discuss sexuality 
• The Sexual Menu Assignment 

Utilizing the Sensate Focus Technique to improve mindful sexual awareness 

• How and when to introduce Mindfulness Sensate Focus 

Assessing experiences with Mindfulness Sensate Focus