Clinical Issues in Couple and Family Therapy Series: Effective Skills for Helping Clients with Desire Discrepancy for Sex (part I)

February 19, 2025

Overview

This workshop will help mental health professionals improve their confidence and skills in helping their clients and couples with desire discrepancy for sex, which is one of the most common sexual concerns that arise in couples' work.  As an AASECT-certified sex therapist with over a decade of experience helping clients improve their sex lives, the presenter will be providing participants with truly useful and doable interventions based on experience, research, and client feedback. Talking with clients about sex can be daunting to non-sex therapists, but it doesn't have to be. This workshop will give practitioners new and effective techniques and tools to truly make a difference in the sex lives and satisfaction levels of their clients.

This conference is being held virtually.

Target Audience

This course is intended for mental health practitioners, including physicians, marriage and family therapists, social workers, professional counselors, and other interested health care professionals.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this session, learners should be able to:

  1. Formulate an acronym-based assessment of clients' sexual concerns to determine appropriate treatments and referrals
  2. Identify the crucial questions to ask about clients’ sexual and romantic histories
  3. Incorporate the Linear vs. Lazy Susan models of sex in their work with clients
  4. Describe Schnarch's concept of Higher Desire Partner and Lower Desire Partner and how to incorporate the Vacation from Sex intervention, the LDP-Only Initiates Intervention, and the HDP Says No Intervention

 

 

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 3.00 Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)
    Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)

    As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Advocate Aurora Health is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. Social workers receiving this course receive 3.00 of ethics, clinical, cultural competence, and/or general continuing education credits.
  • 3.00 Attendance
    Attendance Credit
  • 3.00 American Psychological Association (APA)
    Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship of the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP Office maintains responsibility for the content of the programs.
Course opens: 
01/01/2025
Course expires: 
12/31/2025
Event starts: 
02/19/2025 - 12:00pm CST
Event ends: 
02/19/2025 - 3:00pm CST
Cost:
$75.00
Part of: 
Clinical Issues in Couple and Family Therapy Series 2025
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Venue

Virtual via Microsoft Teams
United States

Faculty

Faculty

Caitlin Myles Weber, LMFT, CST; Weber Therapy, LLC
Robert Marrs, MS, LMFT; Director, Aurora Family Service, Inc
Milind Mehta, MD; Internal Medicine, Aurora Psychiatric Hospital
Scott Linton, MD, LMFT; Jewish Family Services, Inc
Kim Jones, APSW; Clinical Assistant, Aurora Family Service, Inc
Linn Visscher, MA, LPC, LMFT; Family Therapy Institute Manager, Aurora Family Service, Inc
Sharon Hempel, LMFT; Psychotherapist, Aurora Behavioral Health Center
Robert Reff, PhD; Psychologist, Aurora BayCare Medical Centerkarin
Karin Suesser, PhD; Psychologist, Aurora Behavioral Health Center
Meghan Bahr, LCSW-AODA; Manager, Employee Assistance Program
Marcella Blomwillis, MA; Manager, Employee Assistance Program

Disclosure

Faculty disclosures are being reviewed and will be presented to the audience in advance of the program.

Accreditation

Accreditation Statement

In support of improving patient care, Advocate Health is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Credit Statements

Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Advocate Health is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. Social workers completing this course receive 3.00 clinical continuing education credits.

American Psychological Association (APA)
Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship of the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP Office maintains responsibility for the content of the programs.

Available Credit

  • 3.00 Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)
    Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)

    As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Advocate Aurora Health is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. Social workers receiving this course receive 3.00 of ethics, clinical, cultural competence, and/or general continuing education credits.
  • 3.00 Attendance
    Attendance Credit
  • 3.00 American Psychological Association (APA)
    Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship of the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP Office maintains responsibility for the content of the programs.

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Price

Cost:
$75.00
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Registration Fees

Non-Advocate Health/FTTI clinicians$75.00
FTTI students, FTTI faculty, and FTTI clinical affiliates Free
Advocate Health teammate or independent clinicianFree

NOTE:

  • You can only pay by credit card.
  • This conference is being held virtually.  A link to the meeting will be provided prior to the event.
  • Programs will be recorded and posted online for ongoing viewing. Please turn your camera/video off if you do not want your image shared within the recorded video. If you have any concerns, please contact the IPCE Office at cme@aah.org.

If you have any questions, please contact the IPCE Office at cme@aah.org