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Self-Led Sexuality through IFS Therapy: A Parts Work Approach for Healing, Intimacy, Pleasure and Connection


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Speaker:
Patricia Rich, LCSW, CST-S
Duration:
3 Hours 04 Minutes
Copyright:
May 06, 2024
Product Code:
POS059907
Media Type:
Digital Recording
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Never expires.


Description

There are few issues that trigger our parts more than sex.

And when you work with clients who struggle with sexual issues, they’re often dealing with shame, guilt, confusion, and a lack of understanding about their own experiences.

Plus, the sensitive nature of sexual topics can make it difficult for clients (and let’s face it, many therapists) to open up and explore these issues in therapy at all.

But sex and sexuality are huge parts of your clients’ lives…and you need to be able to address them in their treatment.

Now in this program you’ll learn to use the popular IFS therapy approach to address sexuality in your work…all without needing to be a specialist.

You’ll join Patricia Rich. She’s a Certified IFS Therapist, Approved Consultant and an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist and Supervisor whose work has been praised by IFS therapy developer Richard Schwartz.

Intended for those with a basic familiarity with IFS, she’ll invite curiosity about the parts of the client system that play roles in their sexual dilemma, teach techniques to find and befriend these parts, and offer ways to recognise the emergence of the client’s core Self Energy.

She will also guide you, the therapist, toward your own parts so that you can gain the clarity to help your clients to explore sexuality while maintaining appropriate boundaries, staying within your scope of practice and knowing when a referral is necessary.

Whether you work with couples or individuals, you’ll gain tools that can respectfully and gently facilitate access to this inner terrain and open new avenues for sexual growth and healing.

And with IFS therapy it will all feel so much more accessible for both you and your clients. No more struggling or avoiding these crucial conversations altogether.

So don’t wait. Register now!

This product is not endorsed by, sponsored by, or affiliated with the IFS Institute and does not qualify for IFS Institute credits or certification.

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Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.



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This online program is worth 3.25 hours CPD.



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Patricia Rich, LCSW, CST-S (she/her) is a Certified IFS Therapist and Approved Consultant and an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist and Supervisor. She fell in love with IFS in 2011, is Level 3 trained, and serves as a program assistant. She has developed a unique integrative model for Self-Led Sexuality to help people find more ease, joy, and confidence in the bedroom and beyond. She has originated IFS-informed concepts such as Internal Consent and The Six S’s of Sexual Self-Energy. Patty has presented at the IFS Annual Conference, taught a module for the IFS Institute Online Continuity program, led workshops internationally, and authored a chapter in Altogether Us: Integrating the IFS Model with Key Modalities, Communities and Trends. She offers training and consultation to professionals and loves helping people to BeHold and Lead their Internal Sexual Systems (BLISS)™. She lives in the Philadelphia area where she also has a private practice. You can get her free guide to The Six S’s and learn more about her offerings at www.patriciarich.com/ or follow her on Instagram @patriciarichconsulting.


Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Patricia Rich maintains a private practice and receives compensation as a consultant. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Patricia Rich has no relevant non-financial relationships.


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Access never expires for this product.


Objectives

  1. Summarize the fundamental principles of Internal Family Systems (IFS) and how they apply to clinical practice with sexual issues.
  2. Identify four common sexual burdens and how they may impact clients’ sexuality.
  3. Identify common challenges therapists face when working with sexuality in therapy and how IFS offers a framework for overcoming them.

Outline

Exploring Sexuality through the Lens of IFS

  • Current sexual contexts culturally and clinically
  • Benefits of BeFriending Sexuality
    • For clients-individuals, couples
    • For clinicians
  • Common barriers for clients and clinicians
  • Other approaches to working with sexuality and their gaps
  • The integrative Self-Led Sexuality model
  • Research, risks and treatment limitations
  • Indications and contraindications

Self and Parts in the Internal Sexual System

  • Roles protector parts take on in the internal sexual system
  • Exiles, sexual burdens and how they accrue
  • Self Energy can heal and harmonise the system
  • Body parts and processes as part of the system
  • Befriending, Unblending and Unburdening
  • The Self-led Sexual System
  • The Six S’s of Sexual Self Energy

Your Self Energy is Key: Therapist Parts Related to Sexuality

  • Accessing your own Self Energy
  • Common barriers, biases and blindspots
  • Self-led curiosity vs. Part-led curiosity
  • Finding and unblending therapist parts
  • Assessing your context and scope of practice
  • Incorporating ongoing contracting and consent
  • Ethical practice and use of consultation and referral
  • Befriending your own sexual system

Target Audience

  • Counsellors
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Addiction Counsellors
  • Case Managers
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

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