Integrating Sex and Sexuality in EFT Couples’ Work – Feb 2 & 5, 2024
Presenters: Lisa Blum, PsyD and Silvina Irwin, PhD Course Description: Have you experienced the dilemma of helping couples achieve greater emotional connection through EFT, and yet found that this does not always translate directly into greater sexual desire, contact and flexibility between the partners? This workshop will present a frame for understanding that dilemma, and offer approaches for more fully integrating sexual concerns into our EFT work, with the goal of helping couples take new risks with each other so that they can share a more vibrant sexual connection. This workshop will include: how to decipher the map of a couple’s sexual cycle; how to do thorough assessment of each partner’s sexual history, taking into the account the context of the client’s intersecting identities; understanding sexual responses and freezes within an attachment frame; interventions that help create a secure base of “safe touch”; how to identify and work with our own…