Addressing Common Sexual Concerns In Individuals and Couples (16 CE Hours)

This workshop will explore common sexual concerns that individuals and couples seek to address and resolve with a therapist, counselor or coach. We’ll address specific strategies for managing Low Sexual Desire, Desire Differentials, Sexless Relationships, Anorgasmia, Premature Ejaculation, and Painful Sex. Participants will also explore how personal experience and bias can affect practice and client outcomes.

Objectives:

At the conclusion of the course, students will be able to:

• Describe low sexual desire
• Explain 2 techniques for working with individuals with low sexual desire
• Discuss how race, age, and gender identity intersect with sexual desire.
• Discuss how sexual orientation, ethnicity, and culture, religion, income, educational background, profession, personal identity, relationship arrangement intersect with sexual desire.
• Describe how religion, income, educational background, profession, personal identity, and relationship arrangement intersect with sexual desire.
• Explain the role of shame and strategies to overcome sexual shame from an intercultural perspective
• Describe data and research related to sexual frequency in relationships
• List two factors that affect sexual frequency
• Discuss updated research with regard to orgasm: frequency, latency and timing by gender identity, relationship arrangement and sexual orientation
• List two factors that are positively and negatively correlated with orgasm/lack of orgasm
• Describe sexual anatomy including research on erogenous zones
• Explain current research on brain activity during orgasm
• Describe two techniques for increasing orgasm (or reducing orgasm latency):
• Explain a multi-step program to increase ejaculatory control
• Explain 2 approaches to treating painful sex

Activity Schedule:

2 Hours: Diagnosis of Sexual Dysfunctions

2 Hour: Contributing factors to sexual dysfunction

1 Hour: Sexual orientation and gender identity with sexual desire

1 Hour: Shame, guilt, and developmental history

1 Hour: Sexual discrepancy and frequency

1 Hour: Research

1 Hour: Brain activity during sex and orgasm

2 Hours: Treatment of Sexual Dysfunction

1 Hour: Multi-step program to increase ejaculatory Control

1 Hour: Treating painful sex

1 Hour: Differences in gender and sexual dysfunction

2 Hours: Case studies, demonstrations

Speaker Bio:

Jess (Jessica O’Reilly) is a sex and relationship expert, keynote speaker and television host. She holds a PhD in human sexuality with a focus on education and travels the world to facilitate sold-­‐out relationship retreats from Istanbul to Los Angeles. She has worked with thousands of singles and couples to boost intimacy and improve communication and is proud to host PlayboyTV’s hit reality television series, Swing.

Dr. Jess is the author of three best-­selling books (The New Sex Bible, Hot Sex Tips, Tricks and Licks and The Little Book of Kink) and her advice reaches millions each month via international media outlets including Showtime, Cosmopolitan, Women’s Health and Men’s Fitness. You can catch her every week on Global Television’s national program, The Morning Show dissecting the latest research related to love, dating, marriage and sex.