Barry W McCarthy – Sex Made Simple: Clinical Strategies for Sexual Issues in Therapy

Outline

• Confidently Broach All Things Sexual with Your Clients
  • Confront sex myths
  • Desire, pleasure, eroticism and satisfaction
  • Address issues of the role and meaning of sexual desire
  • Embrace the positive functions of sexuality in individual and couple therapy
• Assess Sexual Issues with Individuals and Couples
  • Conduct a sexual history with your client (with confidence and effectiveness!)
  • Implement a comprehensive four session assessment model
  • Develop a treatment plan and identify goals with a sexual strengths, vulnerabilities and problem assessment
• Sexual Challenges for Individual and Couple Therapy
  • Assist clients to take personal responsibility for sexual initiation and rejection
  • Issues of desire, sexual frequency and sexual power struggles
  • Confront sexual avoidance
  • Shame and vulnerability
• Deal with Sexual Secrets
  • Sexual and emotional recovery from affairs
  • Pornography, prostitution, cross dressing, cybersex and other variant arousal issues
  • The problem and place for fetish-based desire
  • Issues of sexual orientation
• Address Complex Emotional and Sexual Issues
  • Sexual issues with gay couples
  • Sexual dissatisfaction in relationships
  • Second marriages
  • Anxiety, depression, PTSD and other mental health issues that impact sexuality
  • Move toward healthy sex with clients who have a history of sexual trauma
• Help Clients Maintain Satisfying, Secure, Sexual Lives
  • Psychosexual skill exercises to enhance comfort, attraction and trust
  • Sex past 60: Address issues of sexuality as we age
  • Sexual strategies with medical and medication issues
  • Cope with Infertility
  • Make the right referral: Urologist, gynecologist or therapist