Client Attunement in Sexual Trauma Therapy (2 CE Hours)
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Client Attunement in Sexual Trauma Therapy (2 CE Hours)

$80.00

2 CE Hours

Presenter: Holly Richmond, PhD, LMFT, CST

Recorded workshop available via video on demand

Overview:

This course explores client attunement within the context of sexual trauma therapy, emphasizing the therapist’s ability to respond to clients with presence, empathy, and embodied awareness. Participants will examine the psychophysiological foundations of trauma and learn how to engage clients using nonverbal cues, mindful communication, and co-regulatory strategies. The course incorporates somatic, relational, and sex-positive approaches to help clinicians create a therapeutic container that fosters safety and healing. Emphasis is placed on developing attunement as a dynamic and intentional skill that supports clients in reclaiming agency, connection, and sexual well-being.

 

Learning Objectives:

  1. Apply attunement strategies to enhance therapeutic presence and responsiveness when working with clients experiencing sexual trauma.
  2. Integrate psychophysiological principles into clinical practice to support trauma-informed care in sexual trauma therapy.

 

About The Speaker:

Dr. Holly Richmond is a Somatic Psychotherapist, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (LMFT), Certified Sex Therapist (CST) and Associate Director of Modern Sex Therapy Institutes. This unique combination of credentials enables her to focus on clients’ cognitive processes as well as mind-body health. In addition to teaching numerous sexual health-related subjects, she works with women, men, couples, and gender-diverse individuals on relationship and sexuality issues, offering sex therapy and sexual health coaching nationally and internationally. Her treatment specialties include low libido, sexual dysfunction, compulsive sexuality (often called “addiction”), desire discrepancies in couples, recovery from sexual assault and abuse, and alternative/non-traditional sexual expression. Her newly released book Reclaiming Pleasure: A Sex-Positive Guide for Moving Past Sexual Trauma and Living a Passionate Life (New Harbinger, Oct. 2021) is an innovative look at both somatic and psychological factors in survivors’ erotic recovery.
Dr. Holly is regularly quoted in publications and media outlets including The New York Times, CNN, Shape, NBC, Wired, Forbes, Oprah, Men’s Health, Cosmopolitan and Women’s Health. She is a sought-after consultant in the sextech industry and is seen as a pioneer in the clinical exploration of sex and technology, and how they work together as human sexuality evolves in the 21st century. Each interlinked facet of her work is grounded in a sex-positive perspective: all sex is good sex as long as it is consensual and pleasurable. This non-judgmental position allows her to assist clients in discovering their true needs, desires and personal path to wellness.

 

Class originally recorded: 3/30/2022.

Social workers completing this course receive 2 clinical continuing education credits.

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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.