Navigating sex therapy with religiously conservative clients (RCCs) can be a delicate balance, whether or not you, yourself, practice a faith.  When working with RCCs, you need to maintain principles of sex therapy practice while respectfully exploring their religious values, ideas, and behaviors, which may be at genuine odds with each other.   Masturbation is a good example.  Research tells sex therapists that masturbation is a healthy activity, but religious values may make self-pleasure fraught with anxiety.

What is an ethical sex therapist to do when faced with an RCC?  What about treating someone LGBTQ+ who has been harmed by their faith, or who has family struggles because of their identity?  How will you help the RCC who has self-diagnosed themselves as a sex addict--because they look at sexually explicit material once a month or so? 

In this breakthrough series of four 3-hour webinars, Natasha Helfer, LMFT, CST-S will answer these questions and so much more.  Your practice will benefit immediately from Helfer's decades of clinical experience and personal insight into the sexuality and relationship difficulties that RCCs may face when pleasure and values clash.

In the introductory webinar, Sex Therapy with Religiously Conservative Clients, Helfer will talk about this demographic and their beliefs and values, and the difference between Act-Centered and Relationship-Centered perspectives on sex.  

Next, Helfer takes on the topic of "Working with Religiously Conservative LGBTQ+ Clients" and the unique challenges sexual/gender minorities may face when  identity conflicts with religious teachings.  In this webinar, she is joined by Colette Dalton, LCSW, a lesbian therapist, and Kimberly Anderson, AMFT, a transgender therapist in training who share their stories and perspectives.  

Along with Josh Weed, LMFT--a gay therapist who appeared on "Nightline" as being happily married to a woman, only to later realize the marriage wasn't sustainable--Helfer then explores the conundrum of treating mixed orientation marriages among couples of faith.  

In the fourth webinar, "Working with Sex and Porn Addicts in RCCs," Helfer is joined by Professor of Sexual Health Braxton Dutson, LCSW to train you in assessing and treatment the self-diagnosed religiously conservative sex addict.

This self-paced learning activity will expand your thinking about RCCs--and it's appropriate for every sex therapist and any therapist who works with this population.  Download your Certificate of Competence in Sex, Love, and Conservative Faith immediately upon completion!

Level of Instruction: Intermediate, Post-Graduate
AASECT CKA: A, C, K, D

Value: $397