Couples Therapy:
Working with Psychosexual Difficulties
A two-day in-person CPD workshop from 9.30am – 5.00pm both days.
Date & Time: Postponed - new date TBC
Delivered by: Rosemary Langford-Bellaby
Venue: 2 Castle Quay, Nottingham.
About this workshop:
Over the workshop we will approach psychosexual therapy as an educational and psychotherapeutic model and will discuss how to approach sexual issues in the context of the therapy (therapeutic meaning), enabling clients to develop and discover themselves sexually and support the client’s journey to a more conscious and confident sexual self and acceptance and enjoyment of their sexuality.
Our Stance: As Clinicians, Supervisors and Trainers our fundamental position is Integration drawing from object relations, self-psychology, humanist psychology and psychotherapy practice, neuroscience, research, current theories from feminist theory, eastern and western sexual theories and practice, openness, authenticity, and congruence. We will look at sexual issues in the context of the body’s physiology and the client’s psychological process within the sociological context.
We will encompass:
- Familiarity with sexual and reproductive anatomy, indicators of physical dysfunction
- Identifying and addressing physical issues with sex such as unreliable erections, lack of orgasm, vaginismus, premature ejaculation
- Discernment between universal or situational factors along with conceptualisation of the psychosexual difficulty
- Considerations and process for, history-taking and assessment, how this might fit within the therapeutic process with couples and other relationships
- Consideration of the effect on sex of trauma, dissociation, and shame
- Working with projection, transference, and countertransference,
- Creating your own model for approaching psychosexual health with clients
- Parallel process and the effect on the therapist
- Understanding the limits of the therapist’s competence.
- Developing a knowledge of appropriate referral systems
- Didactic and experiential teaching
- Providing teaching material on the course topics, including where possible client-friendly diagrams or information sheets
- Homework - Introduction to psychosexual tasks outside the session time
- Key interventions and when to use them, drawn from current models including "bodyfulness".
About the trainer:
Rosemary Langford-Bellaby has extensive training and experience as a psychotherapist, supervisor trainer and consultant. Rosemary has trained in both Gestalt Psychotherapy and Integrative Psychotherapy and has completed additional elements of training in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Transactional Analysis, Behavioural Therapy and Client-Centred Counselling. She is accredited with the UKCP and runs a private practice working with individuals, couples, and groups.
Fees:
£200- SPTI Members
£220 - Non-Members
