Treating the Two Most Common Female Sexual Complaints: Orgasm Issues and Diminished Desire (8 CE Hours)

Course Description:

This workshop will help practitioners learn to treat the two most common concerns that women bring to sex therapists: 1) Difficulty orgasming with a partner; and 2) Diminished sexual desire. Too often women report feeling they are the cause of these problems and are somehow “broken”, not recognizing the roles that culture, medical, and relational factors play.

This workshop will help participants better understand the cultural reasons for the high prevalence of these sexual problems among women. Participants will also become versed in the myriad medical, individual, and relational causes underlying both concerns. Most importantly, evidence-based treatments for both concerns will be presented. Participants will leave this webinar able to assess, normalize, and intervene with these common issues, using empirically supported techniques.

Learning Objectives:

Part I (Diminished Desire)

1. List statistics related to the prevalence of diminished desire among women.

2. Explain the cultural causes of diminished desire and among women, especially those partnered with men.

3. Explain the individual, medical, and relational causes of diminished desire among women

4. Describe empirically supported techniques to assist women struggling with diminished desire.

Part II (Orgasm Issues)

1. List statistics related to the prevalence of orgasm issues among women.

2. Explain the cultural causes of orgasm issues among women, especially those occurring during partner sex with men.

3. Explain the individual, medical, and relational causes of orgasm issues among women.

4. Describe empirically supported techniques to assist women struggling orgasm issues.

Presenter Bio:

Laurie Mintz, Ph.D. is a Professor at the University of Florida, where she teaches Psychology of Human Sexuality to over 150 undergraduate students a year and supervises Counseling Psychology doctoral students. She is a licensed psychologist and has maintained a private practice for over 25 years. She writes a popular Psychology Today blog, is highly quoted in popular media, and has authored two books: A Tired Woman’s Guide to Passionate Sex (2009) & Becoming Cliterate: Why Orgasm Equality Matters–and How to Get It (2017). Both books have been proven effective with small randomized clinical trials, the results of which have been published in peer-reviewed scientific journals.