Intro to Somatic Concentric Sex Therapy. August 22-23
Learning about sex/ual/ity and its importance in intimate relationships is missing in about 90% of general counseling or even couples therapy curriculum. As a result, many therapists risk perpetuating misinformation in their clinical work. This is a missed opportunity to provide a safe-enough, curious, and holistically informed space for your clients to create a more life-affirming and personally meaningful relationship with sexuality.
The Somatic-Concentric Sex Therapy (S-CST) model offers an inclusive and trauma-informed model to guide you in working with clients' sexual issues with a method that integrates the body, the mind, the social self, and emotional attachment styles. With the foundation of Sex Therapy, Somatic Psychotherapy, and Dance/Movement Therapy, this experiential method engages the many layers of the somatic and social self to uncover the shame and misinformation that creates wounds, stalling mind-body integration so that you can support them in total body connectivity and a securely attached relationship with their sex/ual/ity.This learning experience is strength-based, emphasizing embodied consent to support moment to moment body autonomy and self-advocacy. It will show you how to assess and map out the exciting and easeful aspects of sexuality with the unconscious and fractured aspects, activating resilience to open exploration and discovery of a whole-bodied erotic self.
This course is the work of Melissa Walker, LPC, CST, R-DMT, the founder of Embodied Relationships Counseling Center in Colorado. Melissa has written an award winning book on the topic, Whole-Body Sex: Somatic Sex Therapy and the Lost Language of the Erotic Body. Her approach bridges the worlds of sex therapy with the somatic and movement practices of dance/movement therapy, thereby equipping therapists to more confidently and ethically hold space for embodied sexuality within the clinical space. 12 AASECT credits.
Interview with Melissa Walker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eQci5_9v2k
Registration here: https://embodiededucationinstituteofchicago.com/product/intro-somatic-concentric-sex-therapy-training-bellingham/
Kimberly Rothwell BC-DMT GLCMA