This course is provided IN-PERSON only.

Description: This Sexuality Attitude Re-Assessment (SAR) will be ten (10) clock hours of structured group experience consisting of a process oriented exploration of the participants own feelings, attitudes, values, and beliefs regarding human sexuality and sexual behavior.  This portion of the training will not be personal psychotherapy or an academic experience in which the primary emphasis is on cognitive information.  This will involve viewing sexually explicit and non-sexually explicit films, engaging in structured activities, and brief lecturettes.

Friday, May 15 & Saturday, May 16, 2020  | 9 am to 6 pm EST
Presenter by: Dr. Jess O’Reilly 

Description: 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.

Sunday, May 17 | 9 am to 1 pm EST
Presented by: Ari Tuckman, Psy.D.

Description: Adults with ADHD are over-represented in therapy offices, especially couples/sex therapy, because of the many ways that it can impact relationship functioning, yet there is little available for clinicians on how to work most effectively with this interesting population. ADHD is a neurologically-based information processing disorder, but it has significant psychological effects on how a person sees themselves, addresses challenges, and interacts with others. This then impacts how that adult with ADHD behaves in intimate relationships—which then impacts how their romantic partner behaves, as well, making certain dynamics more likely. Couples who have additional struggles by day can benefit all the more from the benefits of a good connection at night. As much as untreated ADHD can make the relationship and sex life much less satisfying for both partners, it tends to respond well to the right treatments.

This seminar will be based on original research conducted by Dr. Tuckman on how ADHD can impact a couple’s sexual and relationship satisfaction. He will share the results of that research, including what separates the most and least satisfied couples, how ADHD impacts sexuality, how gender intersects with ADHD, and which treatments were found to be most effective.

We will begin with a review of the symptoms of ADHD, including a deeper conceptual model of ADHD that is much more useful in work with clients. We will then cover the many ways that ADHD impacts an individual and couple, including results from Tuckman’s research. Most of our time will be spent on practical strategies that clinicians can use with individual and couples therapy clients.

This will be an engaging presentation that offers nuts and bolts strategies backed by a deep understanding of relationship dynamics, sexual functioning, and ADHD neurology.