Supervision, Consultation, Collaboration and Referral in Sex Therapy and Sexuality Counseling Presenter: Ricky Siegel, Ph.D.

Description: This workshop will present a compelling argument for improved consultation and collaboration between sex therapists and medical and mental health professionals across multiple disciplines. The presenter’s “Integrated Practice Model” offers both a critical look at the traditionally lacking areas of integration (e.g., marriage & family therapy, obstetrics, gynecology, urology, etc.), as well as ideas for sex therapists to seek greater collaboration.

Learning Objectives:

• Demonstrate professional communication and personal reflection skills and sensitivity in taking a sexual history.
• Prepare a plan for a psychosexual evaluation and subsequent psychosexual status at each session, and be able to discuss these in supervision.
• Create an integrated sexual medicine practice model that participants can offer to physicians and other medical providers in their communities.
• Describe a strategy for professional communication with a variety of other “dream team” collaborators and potential referral sources.

Activity Schedule:

9-10 Professional Communication and personal reflection

10-11 Conceptualization and presentation in supervision

11-12 Integrative sexual medicine practice model

12-1 “Dream team” collaborators and referrals

Speaker Bio:

RICHARD M. SIEGEL, Ph.D., LMHC, CST, is the Director of Modern Sex Therapy Institutes, a postgraduate continuing education institute training sex therapists and sexual medicine specialists at multiple sites throughout the country. Dr. Siegel is a Florida-licensed mental health counselor and Board-certified sex therapist, and is certified by the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) as a sex therapist and supervisor. He has a rich experiential background, including over 20 years working in sexuality education and addiction treatment, teaching on college campuses, and maintaining a private sex therapy practice. He enjoys a reputation as a seasoned and in-demand workshop and conference presenter, in addition to his work in training and supervising sex therapists.

Dr. Siegel has served AASECT as conference co-chair for three consecutive years, followed by two elected terms as Board Secretary, and has been appointed as the chair of the Supervisor Certification Committee. He is also a Clinical Member of the Society for Sex Therapy and Research (SSTAR), and served on the Executive Committee of that organization as its Membership Officer from 2015-2017.

He completed his Doctoral dissertation at the American Academy of Clinical Sexologists in Orlando, FL, with a research focus on the integration of healthy sexuality and addiction treatment. He has worked enthusiastically to integrate traditional sex therapy into the emergent specialty of sexual medicine, as well as the addiction treatment field.