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Module 1: Erotic Recovery for Low-Sex & No-Sex Couples: Tammy Nelson's step-by-step training course
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This training, which includes 6 hours of live training with real demonstration videos from real couples therapy sessions, explores how lack of desire creates sexless and low sex relationships and gives concrete interventions to treat desire challenges, lack of desire and desire discrepancies using a contemporary treatment model developed by Dr. Tammy Nelson, using Integrative Sex and Couples therapy.
More than 80% of men and women report a lack of satisfaction in their sex lives at some point in their relationship. All therapists need to learn sex therapy techniques along with relationship therapy interventions in order to have the treatment strategies they need to help their clients with these problem areas.
Diminished or postponed pleasure affects all relationships at some point in the developmental stages of committed partnership. Sexual dysfunction and relationship dissatisfaction happens in straight, gay and open or traditionally monogamous relationships. Marriages that suffer from low sex or no sex times can feel bereft of intimacy and lead to resentment, separation and even divorce.
This training will focus on four stages of treatment, 1) Reviving Desire 2) Reframing Desire, 3) Restoring Desire and 4) Recreating Desire.
Within each of these four STAGES of treatment, Stage One. Reviving Desire, Stage Two, Reframing Desire, Stage Three, Restoring Desire, Stage Four, Recreating Desire we will cover the definitions, the causes, and the treatment necessary for erotic recovery. In each of the Four Modules participants will learn interventions and tools that increase desire and improve arousal, increase pleasure and decrease anxiety around sexual performance and increase intimacy and connection.
Included in this course are videos of Dr. Tammy Nelson talking about each Stage of treatment, along with clips of her working with couples, as well as handouts and worksheets that participants can use with their clients, that detail clearly laid out interventions and dialogues to use in sessions along with homework for both individuals and couples, in each stage of treatment for problems that arise in each area.
Stage 1 - Reviving Desire in low sex relationships. With cases of diminished desire, we will cover the reasons for postponed pleasure and the resultant emotional distancing and the ways to treat these issues.
Stage 2 – Reframing Desire - Arousal – Increasing arousal in low interest, and sexually shut down marriages is possible in most cases with the right focus on increasing pleasure versus improving performance. We will cover pleasure disorders and ways to treat them.
Stage 3 - Restoring Desire – Relationships that focus on the trauma of betrayal need healing and specific steps to move toward erotic recovery, which can lead to improved connection and intimacy, even in severely shut down relationships. The steps to creating a new erotic relationship are covered in this module.
Stage 4 - Recreating Desire – means focusing on erotic curiosity and writing new sexier, monogamy agreements for long term connection. It is possible to recreate desire, even if it has been dormant for long periods of time.
Tammy Nelson, PhD
Tammy Nelson, Ph.D., is an internationally acclaimed psychotherapist, Board Certified Sexologist, Certified Sex Therapist, and Certified Imago Relationship Therapist. She has been a therapist for almost 30 years and is the executive director of the Integrative Sex Therapy Institute. She started the institute to develop courses for psychotherapists as the need grew for certified, integrated postgraduate sex and couple’s therapists in a growing field of mental health consumers who need more complex interventions for their relationship needs.
Dr. Tammy is a TEDx speaker, Psychotherapy Networker Symposium speaker and the author of several books, including Getting the Sex You Want: Shed Your Inhibitions and Reach New Heights of Passion Together (Quiver, 2008) and the best-selling The New Monogamy: Redefining Your Relationship After Infidelity (New Harbinger, 2013), as well as When You’re the One Who Cheats: Ten Things You Need to Know (RL Publishing Corp., 2019) and the upcoming Integrative Sex and Couples Therapy (PESI, 2020).
She has been a featured expert in New York Times Magazine, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, CNN, Rolling Stone magazine, TIME Magazine, Redbook, Glamour, The Sun, and The London Times. She is the host of a popular podcast on iTunes, “The Trouble with Sex”, and writes for the Huffington Post, YourTango, ThriveGlobal, and medium.com. Dr. Tammy can be followed on her blog, www.drtammynelson.com/blog.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Tammy Nelson maintains a private practice and is executive director and primary faculty at Integrated Sex Therapy Training Institute (ISTI) and has an employment relationship with Daybreak University. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc., and she additionally receives royalties from New Harbinger and Sounds True. She is a paid consultant for Evergreen Certifications. Dr. Nelson has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Tammy Nelson serves on the board of advisors for the World Association of Sex Coaches. She is a member of the American Art Therapy Association, American Association of Sex Educators, Sex Counselors, and Sex Therapists (AASECT), American Comprehensive Energy Psychology Association (ACEP), American Counseling Association, American Family Therapy Academy, American Family Therapy Association (AFTA), American Psychological, Association (APA), Big Tent Ketamine group (BTK), Connecticut Counselors, Imago Relationships International Association of Professional and Certified Therapists, International Board of Sexologists, International Institute for Sexuality and Human Development, Nonfiction Authors Association, Society Scientific Study Sexuality (SSSS), and the Society for Sex Therapy and Research (SSTAR).
