Erotic Recovery for Low-Sex & No-Sex Couples: Tammy Nelson's step-by-step training course (HS 096081 Nelson)

What you'll learn

Course overview

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 percent 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.