Working with Compulsive Sexual Behaviors (4 CEs)

$160.00

Presented by: Silva Neves, AccCOSRT, AccCOSRT(Sup), UKCP, MBACP, AGSRDT

4 CE Hours

Saturday, January 25, 2025 | 9am – 1pm EST

Live via Webinar (Zoom) or available via recording following the live event

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.

 

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