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Let's Talk About Sex: Sex Simplified for Individual and Couples Therapy


Speaker:
Ashley N. Grinonneau-Denton, MA, PCC-S, IMFT, CST
Duration:
Full Day
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
Nov 29, 2016
Product Code:
PPC051120
Media Type:
Download


Description

  • The latest, hottest, most effective approaches in treating sexual issues with individuals and couples
  • Legal and ethical considerations you need to know that impact the topic of sexuality
  • Barriers to addressing sexuality that are essential to be aware of in the clinical realm

Imagine sitting across from a client that divulges his or her deepest, darkest sexual secrets to you. You have waited to get to this point in therapy and you sit there, fearful, not knowing how to proceed. This workshop not only shows you how to successfully address client’s sexual secrets, but also details the legal and ethical considerations involving sexuality that every clinician needs to be aware of.

By completing this workshop, you will be able to address clients’ sexual issues with less stress, more confidence, and with more positive treatment outcomes than before. The complex, plethora of issues involved in client sexuality including desire/sex issues, shame/guilt issues, dealing with affairs and other sexual secrets and more, can be the root causes of other problems your individual clients or couples may be facing. Learn to more effectively work with individuals and couples to move them past this sticking point in therapy.

You will leave this workshop with new techniques to more confidently and ethically work with clients of this nature. Be able to help your clients live happy, satisfying and secure sexual lives!

OUTLINE

Confront Sexual Issues in a Confident Manner

  • Barriers to addressing sexuality openly in the clinical setting
  • Confront sexual myths in the media and society
  • Delineate self-of-therapist factors that may dissuade from sexual discussions
  • Issues of healthy and variant sexual desire
  • Positive functions and importance of sexuality in therapy

Legal and Ethical Considerations in Addressing Sexuality

  • Classify legal and ethical considerations which may impact the topic of sexuality
  • Address transference and countertransference
  • The role of therapist disclosure
  • Demarcate sexual issues that are unique to individuals and couples
  • The relevancy of healthy therapeutic boundaries

Assess Sexual Issues in Individual and Couples Therapy

  • Conduct a sexual history with your client (with confidence and effectiveness!)
  • A comprehensive assessment model
  • Help clients define their “healthy sexual self”
  • Treatment plan and goals through a sexual strengths, vulnerabilities and problem assessment

Sexual Challenges for Individual and Couple Therapy

  • Assist clients to take personal responsibility for sex: initiation, rejection and shame
  • Issues of desire, sexual frequency and sexual power struggles
  • Confront sexual avoidance and it’s etiologies
  • Shame and vulnerability and ways to cope with this

Deal with Sexual Secrets

  • Sexual and emotional recovery from affairs
  • Pornography, prostitution, cross dressing, cybersex and other shame variant and deviant arousal issues
  • The problem and place for fetish-based desire
  • Issues of sexual orientation and gender identity

Complex Emotional and Sexual Issues

  • Sexual issues with gay and lesbian couples
  • Sexual dissatisfaction in relationships
  • Second marriages and blended families
  • Severe mental illness and sexuality

Help Clients Maintain Satisfying, Secure, Sexual Lives

  • Psychosexual skill exercises to enhance comfort, attraction and trust
  • Sex past 60: Sexuality in the golden years
  • Sex and infertility
  • The importance of referral networks with medical professionals

OBJECTIVES

  1. Explain how to confront sexual issues in a confident manner.
  2. Identify legal and ethical considerations in addressing sexuality.
  3. Assess sexual issues in individual and couples therapy.
  4. Discuss sexual challenges for individual and couple therapy.
  5. Address complex emotional and sexual issues with clients.
  6. Implement strategies to help clients maintain satisfying, secure, sexual lives.

ADA Needs
We would be happy to accommodate your ADA needs; please call our Customer Service Department for more information at 1-800-844-8260.

 

Satisfaction Guarantee
Your satisfaction is our goal and our guarantee. Concerns should be addressed to: PO Box 1000, Eau Claire, WI 54702-1000 or call 1-800-844-8260.

Credit


* Credit Note - **

NOTE: Tuition includes one free CE Certificate (participant will be able to print the certificate of completion after completing the on-line post-test (80% passing score) and completing the evaluation). 

Continuing Education Information:  Listed below are the continuing education credit(s) currently available for this non-interactive self-study package. Please note, your state licensing board dictates whether self-study is an acceptable form of continuing education. Please refer to your state rules and regulations. If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval. For other credit inquiries not specified below, please contact cepesi@pesi.com or 800-844-8260 before the event.

Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession.  As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your profession's standards.  

For Planning Committee disclosures, please statement above.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.


* Credit Note - Ethics

This self-study activity includes 2.0 hours of GENERAL ethics instruction. Not all boards allow ethics credit for self-study products. If ethics is not specified within your licensing board’s approval statement below, please contact your board to determine the applicability and amount of ethics allowed.


Counselors - Counselors

This intermediate self-study activity consists of 6.25 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from the activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.


Counselors - Texas Counselors

PESI, Inc. has been approved as a continuing education sponsor through the Texas State Board of Examiners of Professional Counselors. Provider #: 2477. This self-study course qualifies for 6.0 continuing education credits.


Counselors - South Carolina Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists and Psycho-Educational Specialists

This program has been approved for 6.0 continuing education hours by the South Carolina Board of Examiners for Licensure of Professional Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Psycho-Educational Specialists. Approval #4540.


Social Workers - Social Workers

PESI, Inc., #1062, 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 as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for the course. ACE provider approval period: January 27, 2017 - January 27, 2020. Social Workers completing this course receive 4.25 Clinical and 2.0 Ethics continuing education credits for completing this intermediate level self-study course. No more than 6.25 total CE hours may be awarded for this activity. A certificate of attendance will be awarded at the end of the program to social workers who complete the program evaluation. Full attendance is required. No partial credit will be offered for partial attendance.


Social Workers - Canadian Social Workers

PESI, Inc., #1062, 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 as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for the course. ACE provider approval period: January 27, 2017 - January 27, 2020. Social Workers completing this course receive 4.25 Clinical and 2.0 Ethics continuing education credits for completing this intermediate level self-study course. A certificate of attendance will be awarded at the end of the program to social workers who complete the program evaluation. Full attendance is required. No partial credit will be offered for partial attendance. Canadian provinces may accept activities approved by the ASWB for ongoing professional development.


Social Workers - Florida Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists, and Mental Health Counselors

CE Broker

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling. Provider Number #50-399. This self-study course qualifies for 6.25 continuing education credits.


Social Workers - Illinois Social Workers

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the State of Illinois, Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, Division of Professional Regulation. License #: 159-000154. Successful completion of this self-study activity qualifies for 6.0 contact hours.


Social Workers - Kansas Social Workers

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Kansas Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board. Provider #14-006. This self-study course has been approved for 6.0 continuing education hours.


Social Workers - Minnesota Social Workers

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the State of Minnesota, Board of Social Work. Provider #: CEP-140. This self-study package has been approved for 6.0 continuing education hours. This certificate has been issued upon successful completion of a post-test.


Social Workers - Ohio Social Workers, Counselors, and Marriage & Family Therapists

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the State of Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage & Family Therapist Board. Provider approval #: RCST071001. Successful completion of this self-study course meets the qualifications for 6.25 clock hours of continuing education credit.


Psychologists - Canadian Psychologists

PESI, Inc. is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for the program. This program is approved for 6.0 self-study continuing education hours. Full credit statement at: www.pesi.com/cpa-statement


Psychologists - Florida Psychologists

PESI, Inc., is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Psychology.Provider Number #50-399.This product qualifies for 6.3 self-study continuing education credits.


Psychologists - Psychologists

This self-study activity consists of 6.25 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from this self-study activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.


Marriage & Family Therapists - Marriage & Family Therapists

This self-study activity consists of 6.25 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save this course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from this self-study activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements. 


Marriage & Family Therapists - Texas Marriage & Family Therapists

PESI, Inc. has been approved as a continuing education sponsor through the Texas State Board of Examiners of Marriage and Family Therapists. Provider # 503. This self-study package qualifies for 6.0 continuing education credits.


Marriage & Family Therapists - Illinois Marriage & Family Therapists

PESI, Inc. has been approved as a provider of continuing education by the State of Illinois, Department of Professional Regulation. Provider #:168-000156. Full attendance at this self-study activity qualifies for 6.0 credits.


Addiction Counselors - NAADAC

NAADAC

This self-study course has been approved by PESI, Inc., as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for 6.0 CE in the Legal, Ethical and Professional Development skill group. NAADAC Provider #77553. PESI, Inc. is responsible for all aspects of their programming. Full attendance is required; no partial credit will be awarded for partial attendance.


California Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Counselors (CCAPP-EI)

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider by the CCAPP-EI, Provider #: OS-03-036-1025. This activity meets the qualifications for 6.0 CEH's (continuing education hours).


Connecticut Addiction Counselors

Provider #120924. This course has been approved as a CCB approved training and has been awarded 6.25 hours by the Connecticut Certification Board.


Chaplains/Clergy

This self-study program is designed to qualify for 6.25 continuing education hours.


Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, and Clinical Nurse Specialists

This intermediate activity is approved for 6.25 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please contact your licensing board to determine if they accept programs or providers approved by other national or state licensing boards. A certificate of attendance will be awarded at the end of the program to participants who are in full attendance and who complete the program evaluation.


California Nurses

PESI, Inc. is a provider approved by the California Board of  Registered Nursing, Provider #: 17118 for 6.0 self-study contact hours. 

** You will need to provide your license number to PESI. PESI must have this number on file in order for your hours to be valid.


Florida Nurses

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider by the Florida Board of  Nursing. Provider #: FBN2858. These materials qualify for 6.0 self-study contact hours.

CE Broker


Iowa Nurses

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider by the Iowa Board of Nursing. Provider #: 346. Nurses successfully completing these self-study materials will earn 7.6 self-study contact hours. Please email cepesi@pesi.com with your license number, include the title, speaker name and date. PESI must have this number on file in order for your hours to be valid.


Pennsylvania Social Workers, Counselors, and Marriage & Family Therapists

This intermediate activity is approved for 6.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please contact your licensing board to determine if they accept programs or providers approved by other national or state licensing boards. A certificate of attendance will be awarded at the end of the program to participants who are in full attendance and who complete the program evaluation.


California Social Workers, Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, and Licensed Educational Psychologists

The State of California, Board of Behavioral Sciences will recognize and accept continuing education programs that are sponsored by providers approved by the APA and the ASWB. Full participation in this self-study course will qualify for 6.0 hours of continuing education credit.


Other Professions

This self-study activity qualifies for 6.25 continuing education clock hours as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Save your activity advertisement and certificate of completion, and contact your own board or organization for specific requirements.



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Speaker

Ashley N. Grinonneau-Denton, MA, PCC-S, IMFT, CST Related seminars and products


Ashley N. Grinonneau-Denton, MA, PCC-S, MFT, is a dually licensed Supervising Professional Clinical Counselor (PCC-S) and a Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT).  She is also a nationally certified supervising sex therapist through AASECT, and a PhD candidate in Marriage and Family Therapy.  She has taught and presented countless workshops in the field of sexuality, and serves as academic consultant and adjunct instructor at Case Western Reserve University.

Ashley has her own booming private practice in Ohio and is one of the foremost sexuality experts in the greater Cleveland area. She has extensive training in individual, relationship-based, and sex therapy approaches and treats a wide variety of clinical concerns including general anxiety and depression, relationship difficulties, co-parenting in the face of divorce, grief and loss, abuse and trauma, self-esteem and body image concerns and more.

Ashley specializes, specifically, in treating sexual health concerns, including sexual dysfunction in both men and women, paraphilias, sexual abuse and trauma, sexual fetishism, sexually compulsive behaviors across the lifespan, pelvic pain, infertility, infidelity, and gender identity exploration.  She is a LGBTQ friendly therapist and works with individuals from all walks of life, races, spiritual/religious affiliations, and cultural identities.

 

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Ashley Grinonneau-Denton is an adjunct instructor at Case Western Reserve University. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Ashley Grinonneau-Denton is a member of AASECT.

 


Target Audience

Addiction Counselors, Case Managers, Chaplains/Clergy, Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Psychologists, Social Workers, and other Mental Health Professionals

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