Attachment Injury and Erotic Recovery (4 CE Hours)
$160.00
Presented by: Ronda Evans, MA, LMFT, PMH-C
4 CE Hours
Distance Learning – Recorded workshop available via video on demand
AASECT Category: Human Sexuality, Section E.
Description
Helping sexual partners move from hopelessness to hope when an erotic injury occurs is possible. This inclusive course is at the intersection of attachment injury and erotic injury where the erotic injury activates attachment fears of abandonment or rejection. This advanced course provides a recovery map for erotic recovery with a foundational base in attachment, systemic and experiential approach. This course will place the erotic injury in the repeating patterns/cycles that sexual partners get caught in and will integrate touch, physical intimacy and fears of such in the repair and recovery process.
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Identify the varied terms used in research
- Identify phases of treatment/recovery
- Learn the steps to facilitate a bonding repair enactment
- Understand the importance of integrating touch into erotic recovery and repair
- Understand the significance of the treatment team
Activity Schedule
Hour 1 – Introduction; Definitions & Terms; Assessment (in brief); Treatment Planning & Overview
Hour 2 – Pattern Phase Working with Triggers
Hour 3 – Repair Phase & Steps to Facilitate Erotic Repair; Common Stuck Places
Hour 4 – Holding the tension; Working with blocks; The dual role of the treatment team
Speaker Bio
Ronda Evans is an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist and ICEEFT Certified EFT therapist and supervisor in Washington state. She specializes in relationship therapy for perinatal and postpartum issues, attachment injury and erotic injury recovery, and sexual issues, and family therapy. She is a certified perinatal mental health therapist, an AAMFT approved supervisor, a Washington state supervisor, is co-host of the emotionally focused family therapy podcast The Family Express, and co-author of a therapeutic children’s book called “A Jumble of Thoughts, A Tangle of Feelings” and the second book is due to be released in late 2025.
Class originally recorded: 11/23/2025.
Social workers completing this course receive 4 clinical continuing education credits.
MSTI is an approved CE organizational provider for IBOSP, AASECT, and ASWB. Modern Sex Therapy Institutes is part of the Advanced Mental Health Training Institute. The Advanced Mental Health Training Institute has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No.6901. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. The Advanced Mental Health Training Institute is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
MSTI is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for Psychologists. The Modern Sex Therapy Institutes maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Modern Sex Therapy Institutes (MSTI), provider #1787, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: [1/7/22-1/7/26].
Attendees must attend the entire course and complete a course evaluation to be eligible for CE credit
For Live Courses: To obtain CE credits, attendees must attend the entire course and complete an evaluation to receive credit.
For asynchronous/recorded courses, Attendees must pass the multiple choice posttest with a minimum score of 80% in 3 attempts to be eligible for CE credit.
Certificates of completion can be downloaded immediately upon course completion.