: Reclaiming Sexuality After Trauma

Course overview

Reclaiming Sexuality After Trauma is designed for mental health professionals seeking a deeper, integrative understanding of how trauma reshapes sexuality across emotional, developmental, relational, and neurobiological domains. Drawing from contemporary trauma science, sex therapy, attachment theory, and embodied approaches, this course reframes traumatized sexuality as a multidimensional condition that extends beyond traditional PTSD symptoms. Clinicians will explore how sexual trauma, childhood sexual abuse, military sexual trauma, and complex trauma contribute to disruptions in desire, arousal, pleasure, sexual self-concept, and relational safety. The course emphasizes that while evidence-based trauma treatments reduce PTSD symptoms, they do not reliably restore healthy sexual functioning, highlighting the need for sexuality-specific interventions.