Working with Compulsive Sexual Behaviors (4 CEs)
$160.00
Presented by: Silva Neves, AccCOSRT, AccCOSRT(Sup), UKCP, MBACP, AGSRDT
4 CE Hours
Saturday, January 17, 2026 | 9AM – 1PM EST
Live via Webinar (Zoom) or Recorded workshop available via video on demand
AASECT Category: Sex Therapy, Section C.
Description
This workshop will focus on how to conceptualise compulsive sexual behaviours, and why it is different from “sex addiction”. Silva explains the ethical principles in working with compulsive sexual behaviours. This presentation includes ideas on how to help clients explore their sexual themes and encourage erotic awareness as a means to reduce shame and sexual compulsivity. Silva will address the various underlying causes of sexual compulsivity and he will explain how to use the three-phase model in a sex-positive, ethical and evidence-based framework.rt.
Learning Objectives
At the completion of the course, participants will be able to:
- Describe how to assess clients struggling with compulsive sexual behaviours
- Create a treatment plan for clients struggling with compulsive sexual behaviours
- Discuss how to help clients explore their erotic mind
- Describe how to worik ethically in a sex-positive way using the three-phase model.
Speaker Bio
Silva Neves is an award-winning COSRT-accredited and UKCP-registered psychosexual and relationship psychotherapist, and a trauma psychotherapist based in Central London, UK.
He is a Pink Therapy Clinical Associate.
Silva is a COSRT-accredited clinical supervisor.
Silva is a member of the editorial board for the leading international journal Sexual and Relationship Therapy.
Silva is the author of two books: Compulsive Sexual Behaviours, A Psycho-Sexual Treatment Guide for Clinicians (Routledge), Sexology: The Basics (Routledge), and he co-edited two textbooks with Dominic Davies: Erotically Queer (Routledge) and Relationally Queer (Routledge).
He also contributed chapters in various publications including: The Handbook of Social Justice in Psychological Therapies, Queering Gestalt Therapy, The SAGE Handbook of Counselling & Psychotherapy, Sexual Minorities and Mental Health: Current perspectives and New Directions.
Silva wrote several articles in psychotherapy magazines and peer-reviewed journals, including New Psychotherapist, Therapy Today, Sexual and Relationship Therapy, The European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling, Attachment.
He speaks internationally.
Website:
Facebook: Silva Neves – Psychotherapy
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Instagram: @silvanevespsychotherapy
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Bluesky: @silvaneves.bsky.social
Class originally recorded: 1/25/2025.
Social workers completing this course receive 4 clinical continuing education credits.
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.