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Transforming Sexual Narratives
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This highly practical session offers concrete guidance on how to bring new insight to their individual sexual history and interventions for helping them expand their sexual repertoire.
Objectives
- Explain the importance of taking a client’s sexual narrative as one of the first steps in therapy
Outline
- The importance of educating couples about willingness—not desire—as the necessary first step in a satisfying sexual relationship
- How to use sexual history taking to help clients understand their current sexual issues in the wider context of their ongoing sexual narrative
- The process for helping a couple create a shared erotic menu that can bring more variety, acceptance, and playfulness to their sexual exploration
- How the technique of mindful sensate focus can free partners to explore new pathways to more embodied pleasure with each other
Suzanne Iasenza, PhD
Suzanne Iasenza, PhD, is faculty at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy where she is co-director of the Sex Therapy Program and teaches at the Ackerman Institute for the Family. She is author of the book Transforming Sexual Narratives: A Relational Approach to Sex Therapy.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Suzanne Iasenza maintains a private practice and has employment relationships with Adelphi University and the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy. She receives royalties as a published author. Suzanne Iasenza receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Suzanne Iasenza is a member of the American Psychological Association, Member, the Association for Women in Psychology, the Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists, the Society for Sex Therapy and Research, the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, and the American Family Therapy Academy.
