Sex in the Cycle: Working with Couples' Sexual Cycles using Emotionally Focused Therapy

Healthy Connections Knoxville and TNAMFT present:

Sex in the Cycle: Working with Couples' Sexual Cycles using Emotionally Focused Therapy

with Laurie Watson, PhD

Date: March 24, 2023

Times: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm (Eastern Time)

Place: Overcoming Believers Church,

    211 Harriet Tubman St,

    Knoxville, TN 37915

Cost:

$200 Regular admission

$150 for TNAMFT members

$100 for students

This training will provide 6 CEUs. Lunch is included

Schedule of Events:

9-9:45am              Sexual Attachment Cycle + group discussion

9:45-10:30am       Sexual Pursuer and Sexual Withdrawers + break out

10:30-10:45am     Break 

10:45-11:45am     Bringing Up Sex + breakout

11:45-12:45pm     Tango Moves in the Sexual Cycle  –+ breakout

Lunch

1:45-2:45pm         Live with Couple in Sexual Cycle

2:45-3pm              Break 

3-3:30pm              Processing Live 

3:30-4:15pm         Four Typical Sexual issues – ED, PE, Anorgasmia, Low Libido 

4:15 – 5 pm          Q&A 

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify the key assumptions of attachment theory as it applies to adult      sexuality.

2. Describe insecurely attached strategies used in the negative sexual cycle. 

3. How to use specificity in the couple’s sexual encounter description to      assemble, deepen, distill and share their emotional experience.

4. Discuss common therapeutic impasses with sexual dysfunctions and how to address them with EFT.