Using Genograms in Sex Therapy (4 CE Hours 2021)

A genogram includes information about relationships and interactions between family members. Creating this in the first 3 sessions helps clinicians understand how a client is recycling their past in the present. It can highlight the pattern of emotional and sexual problems that’s at the root of those individual and couples problems. By creating this early in the therapeutic relationships, therapists will be armed with the information necessary to help assess the themes in the problems today and how they relate to ones past family of origin issues. In this course we will do a live genogram to walk through the process and how to use it to effectively help your clients. 

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Speaker Bio:

Psychotherapist Joe Kort, PhD, LMSW, is the clinical director and founder of The Center for Relationship and Sexual Health in Royal Oak, Michigan. He is a board-certified clinical sexologist, author of four books, lecturer and facilitator of therapeutic workshops. Throughout his 36 years of private practice, he successfully has utilized varying therapy modalities to help hundreds of individuals and couples improve their lives and strengthen their relationships.

Dr. Kort specializes in marital problems and conflicts; mixed orientation marriages; male sexuality and sexual health concerns; “sex addiction,” out-of-control sexual behaviors; sexual identity issues; childhood sexual abuse; LGBTQIA Affirmative Therapy; and Imago Relationship Therapy.

He is trained in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing), a safe and effective treatment that can help patients who have suffered for years from anxiety, distressing memories, nightmares, insomnia, abuse or other traumatic events.

Dr. Kort obtained his undergraduate degree from Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan, with a dual major in psychology and social work. He earned master’s degrees in social work and psychology from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, and a doctorate (PhD) in Clinical Sexology from the American Academy of Clinical Sexologists.