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Unleash the Power of Sex In EFT with George Faller and Laurie Watson


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Unleash the Power of Sex In EFT

with George Faller and Laurie Watson

When: February 27 & 28, 2025

Where: Northwest Arkansas

CEs: 12 Available

Cost: $ 525 Professionals / $ 475 Students

**Early Bird Rate: $475 through December 31st, 2024 ($525 after)


About the Training:

Good news: if you’re a couple therapist, you’re also a sex therapist! Therapists have been taught that working with sexuality is a specialty, but it’s not. It can’t be. Why? For most couples, sexual attachment is as essential to their stability as emotional attachment. Unfortunately, most couple therapists get very little training in how to work with sexual attachment.

 Over the last five years, George Faller and Laurie Watson been trying to normalize discussions about sex in their work and teaching as LMFTs on their highly ranked podcast, Foreplay, where they use their expertise to help couples resolve sexual difficulties and highlight the importance of therapists talking openly about sex. They believe it’s the therapist’s responsibility to initiate conversations around sexuality, rather than burdening couples with this potentially anxiety-provoking task.

 Attachment theory demonstrates that there are three behavioral cycles in a romantic relationship: emotional, sexual, and caretaking. Together, they form the bond between the partners. And therapists need to become versatile in dealing with the cycles simultaneously. Sex particularly comprises the excitement and vitality in a romantic relationship. The power of sex in a relationship isn’t simply body parts and physiology; it’s a force of attachment.


Topics:

· What is Great Sex?

· What is the Sexual Attachment Cycle?

· When/How/Why to Bring Up Sex

· Anatomy and Physiology

· Sexual Assessment – BEST SEX TALK

· Four Common Sexual Dysfunctions

· Stage 1 in the SAC – TEMPO

· Stage 2 in the SAC - Blocks

The workshop will include lectures and interactive break-out sessions.



Learning objectives:

1.      Identify the key assumptions of attachment theory as it applies to adult sexuality.

2.      How to use specificity in the couple’s sexual encounter description to assemble, deepen, distill and share their emotional experience

3.      Discuss common therapeutic impasses in EFT with sexuality and how to address them and implement EFT interventions in clinical exercises and case examples.

4.      Name the typical sexual response sequence in male and female bodied people.

5.      Use a sexual assessment in EFT treatment, including BEST SEX TALK.

6.      Identify negative cycles around sexual issues in Stage 1 of EFT

7.      Differentiate sexual concerns from attachment perspective.

8.      Utilize Stage 2 EFT interventions effectively around sexual issues to create more secure bond in couples that leads to greater sexual fulfillment.


Email us with any questions: arkansaseft@gmail.com


About Our Trainers:

Laurie and George are the co-hosts of the podcast
FOREPLAY – Couples and Sex Therapy
with 400 episodes and over 10 M downloads.

 Email us with any questions: arkansaseft@gmail.com

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