Can We Talk About Sex? The When, Why and How We Talk With Our Clients About Sex
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This workshop will help participants confront their own barriers and concerns when it comes to the sex talk, as well as equip participants with language and intervention tools necessary for effective engagement.
CEs: 3
Sexuality is foundationally and fundamentally an essential part of our physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual lives. It is built into who we are as people. According to AASECT (American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists), “Sexuality is at the core of human personality; It’s not what you do, but who you are”. It is obvious that sexuality is paramount and integral to a person’s identity. Moreover sex, sexuality and sexual content, can be accessed on just about every social media platform today. It is perhaps one of the greatest areas of anxiety and depression for many, and yet many social workers and mental health professionals do not regularly explore sexuality unless clients present with a specific sexual concern.
This workshop will help participants confront their own barriers and concerns when it comes to the sex talk, as well as equip participants with language and intervention tools necessary for effective engagement.
Learning Objectives
After our workshop, participants will:
- Know how to take a sexual history for individuals and couples.
- Have specific language and interventions in addressing issues of sexuality.
- Have developed a framework in addressing subjects of sexuality.
In the end, participants will have become more comfortable and even more engaging when talking with their clients about sex.
About the Speaker
With Gwen Butler, LCSW, CST
“I am committed to the transforming power of self-love for every individual, for the purposes of sexual health and pleasure in eroticism and sensuality. My mission is to bring self-love and mindfulness together in harmonious erotic explosion.”
-Gwen Butler, LCSW CST
Gwen Butler LCSW CST is an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist and Educator specializing in Individual, Couples, and Group Counseling. With a Private Practice in Long Island, New York Gwen Butler offers a permission-based, strength-based, spiritual-based, and complete-health-approach to discovering the next level of sexual healing, growth and potential. Passionate about the mental and sexual health of all vagina-owners, identified as ‘woman’ or not, of all backgrounds, orientations, and faiths, and their partners who share intimately and genuinely with them. Gwen Butler offers the healing and guidance that can only come from the empowerment of personal process and personal touch. As a professor of social work at Adelphi University, Gwen Butler has taken on the ever-important role of teaching the professionals of the future. Gwen further serves the Adelphi University community as a Counselor in the Student Counseling Center providing mental health care to students.