Everything Counselors & Therapists Need to Know About Sex – but Never Learned
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Description
This dynamic session will offer overview of sexual health (inclusive of alternative sexual practices, and non-traditional, yet normative arousal patterns). This session is provided to help attendees learn about fetishes and kink, the paraphilias, sexual offending and addictive sexual behavior. Sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression and transgender questions will be considered.
We also will review how individual arousal patterns are influenced by online via healthy, non-addictive sexual exploration. This talk will acknowledge how differing cultural and religious affiliations inform and affect sex and intimacy. We will also review/discuss the major sexual offending diagnoses (and treatment), with extended time given for discussion and questions.
Target Audience
- Counselor
- Psychologist
- Social Worker
- Substance Use Disorder Professionals
Presenters
Robert Weiss PhD, LCSW is Chief Clinical Officer of Seeking Integrity an online and a residential intimacy disorders program treating men with sex and porn addictions as well as men with co-occurring drug and sex problems. Dr. Weiss is an author, international educator and clinical expert in thetreatment of adult intimacy disorders and related addictions. A clinical sexologist and licensed psychotherapist for over 25-years, he has created clinical multiple treatment programs for prominent mental health institutions both in the US and abroad. Dr. Weiss is an adjunct professor at UCLA and a consultant and educator to the US Military. He often serves as a subject matter expert for CNN, NPR, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal, among others. Dr. Weiss is the author of 10 books, including Prodependence: The End of Codependency, Sex Addiction 101, and Out of the Doghouse. On social media, Dr. Rob’s Psychology Today blog, Love and Sex in the Digital Age, has over 18 million readers to date, while his podcast, Sex, Love, & Addiction has garnered nearly 750 thousand downloads to date.