Why Are Men So Afraid of Women? How Understanding This Can Help Create Better Relationships and Healthier Men
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Learning Objectives
Participants will be able to:
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Identify and explain the underlying fears and attachment issues that influence men’s behaviors in relationships.
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Identify at least 3 common strategies men use to hide their fear of intimacy and explain how they impact relational dynamics.
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Summarize how to support healthier, more open communication in relationships by applying insights into masculinity and conflict avoidance.
Educational Goal
The educational goal of this workshop is to help participants understand how men’s underlying fear of women and intimacy can negatively impact relationships and identify ways to foster healthier, more empathetic connections.
Description
This workshop explores the often-hidden fear that many men have toward intimacy and women, which can lead to defensive, avoidant, or controlling behaviors in relationships. By examining the roots of these fears and understanding how masculinity influences men’s coping strategies, participants will gain insight into common relational challenges. The session offers a roadmap for fostering healthier, more empathetic relationships by addressing men’s attachment issues and conflict avoidance tendencies, helping both men and their partners navigate towards a happier, more connected relational experience.
Target Audience
- Counselor
- Marriage & Family Therapist
- Psychologist
- Social Worker
- Substance Use Disorder Professionals
Presenters
Gary Katz is a psychotherapist and founded The Center for Intimacy Recovery in New York which focuses primarily on intimacy and relationships. He has found that without a sense of intimacy with oneself, people can’t fully experience intimacy with someone else. Our hearts are fragile, so we develop strategies to keep them safe and avoid getting hurt. Often these strategies later become maladaptive and stop serving us or they hold us back from achieving the connection and intimacy we are seeking. The Center for Intimacy Recovery helps clients find ways to have the intimacy and connection in life that they are seeking and to uncover all the ways that they have learned to play it safe and protect their hearts which at times can get in the way of intimacy.
To gain a better understanding around healthy sexuality and treatment for compulsive and destructive sexual behaviors and the trauma created through intimate betrayal, Gary became a member of the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists and has studied at the Modern Sex Therapy Institute. He is also a member of the International Institute of Trauma and Addiction Professionals where he became a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist and a Certified Partner Trauma Therapist.
Searching for ways to do deeper work with clients and to contact trauma and feelings stored in the body, Gary has studied Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy and EMDR.
Prior to opening this practice, Gary worked in education for over 20 years as a rabbi.