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Tulane School of Social Work Rm 343 or Online127 ELK PLACE
New Orleans, LA 70112
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Great Sex and Connection for Couples: Integrating EFT and Sex Therapy
With Reknown International Trainers and Therapists Laurie Watson and George Faller
Register Now!Laurie and George are the co-hosts of the podcast FOREPLAY – Couples and Sex Therapy with over 10 M downloads.
George Faller and Laurie Watson 
Sex often triggers what is best and worst in relationships. Swinging from the highs of passion to the lows of rejection, sex offers us all plenty to engage with and talk about in session. Yet, most therapists are not taught how to facilitate these intimate conversations and harness the power of sexual connection to help secure the couples’ attachment.
Research demonstrates that the strongest bond for a couple includes an alive, vibrant sexual connection and a warm, secure emotional connection. Yet, nearly 70% of all couples therapists across every model do not talk about sex. Without comfort and confidence, therapists avoid resolving this critical part of their couple’s lives, leaving the couple alone to struggle and perhaps derailing all the good work accomplished in resolving the emotional bond. Couples too, avoid talking about this critical area in their lives due to embarrassment, hopelessness, shame or even taking their cue from the silence of the therapist.
Let’s stop avoiding sexual conversations and instead develop the confidence to lean into them. Our goal is to help couple therapists understand how the emotional and sexual attachment cycles are integrated, help therapist become comfortable with talking about sex, learn a thorough sexual assessment, and work through blocks in the sexual cycle. Using roleplays and videos we demonstrate effective sexual interventions and we design breakout sessions for you to practice talking comfortably about explicit details so the sexual cycle can be discussed in session. Come join us to harness the power of sexuality to help clients experience the power of great sex.
BIOS:
Laurie and George are the co-hosts of the podcast FOREPLAY – Couples and Sex Therapy with over 10 M downloads.
George Faller
George Faller is a retired Lieutenant of the NYC Fire Department, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in NY and Connecticut and the founder and President of the New York Center for Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). As an EFT Trainer, George teaches several classes at the Ackerman Institute for the Family and is the director of training at the Center for Hope and Renewal in Greenwich, Ct. Specializing on in-session micro moves, trauma, Family EFT, and self-of-the-therapist issues, George is committed to bringing EFT to underprivileged populations and pushing the leading edge of effective therapy. George has authored the books True Connection, Sacred Stress, and Emotionally Focused Family Therapy. He has a hit podcast Foreplay Radio and his therapist training website www.SuccessInVulnerability.com contributes to the mission of making our world a more emotionally secure place.
Laurie Watson
Laurie has been a licensed couple’s counselor for over two decades and is certified in EFT and sex therapy. In clinical therapy, she has helped thousands of couples recover sexual passion and make love again in joyful, intimate, creative and exciting ways, sometimes even after years of sexless marriage. Due to her many years of counseling experience, Laurie remains incredibly hopeful that committed love and monogamous sex can fulfill a couple, heal deep wounds from childhood, restore each spouse to a sense of hope, and offer stability from which to face the world together.
She is the author of Wanting Sex Again – How to Rediscover Desire and Heal a Sexless Marriage, a blogger for WebMD and Psychology Today with over 15 M reads and the owner/ director for Awakenings Counseling & Counseling Near Me throughout North Carolina.
Workshop 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 Conversations
6. Identify negative cycles around sexual issues in Stage 1 of EFT
7. Differentiate sexual concerns from attachment perspective.
8. Apply techniques to transform sexual dysfunction into deeper intimacy and closeness.
9. Utilize Stage 2 EFT interventions effectively around sexual issues to create more secure bond in couples that leads to greater sexual fulfillment.