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Sex Therapy with Survivors of Childhood Sexual Trauma
Summer Sexuality Series:
Sex Therapy with Survivors of Childhood Sexual Trauma
with Suzanne Iasenza, PhD
Wednesdays in June: June 4, 11, 18, and 25 from 1:45pm-3:15pm on Zoom
6 NYS CE and AASECT Credits!
When sexual difficulties in adulthood are associated with past childhood sexual trauma shame often accompanies such intimate trauma. This workshop will provide a theoretical understanding as well as clinical techniques in working with sexuality concerns of survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Case material will be discussed.
In this four-part series, participants will:
- Discuss how to create a safe therapeutic environment for survivors
- Identify important aspects of assessment of childhood sexual abuse
- Describe the central role of shame for survivors
- Describe the use of a culturally sensitive relational sexual history to support sexual healing
- List clinical techniques that help survivors safely become more sexual
About the Presenter:
Suzanne Iasenza, PhD is on the faculties of the Adelphi University Derner Institute’s Postgraduate Program in Psychoanalysis, and the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy (ICP), where she is Co-Founder of the Sex Therapy Training Program (STP). She also teaches at the Ackerman Institute for the Family, the Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy and the Family Institute of Westchester. She maintains a private practice in psychotherapy and sex therapy in New York. Her latest book, Transforming Sexual Narratives: A Relational Approach to Sex Therapy recently received an award for exceptional merit from the Society for Sex Therapy and Research.
An important note about CEs: ICP is an approved provider of continuing education credits for social workers, mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, and psychoanalysts through the New York Department of Education. If your license is from a different state, please contact your state’s licensing board to find out if they will accept CE credits for New York State. If your license is from another state, please enter your license number with your state in parenthesis, ie 54321 (CA).
Registration for this course has closed. If you have questions or need the Zoom link, please email STP@icpnyc.org
