All Therapy is Sex Therapy: Discussing Sexuality and Taking a Sexual History
This workshop offers participants an introduction to the Sexual History Questionnaire (SHQ) created by Jassy Timberlake, LMFT, CST and Shannon Sennott, LICSW, CST which was created to have a specific focus and recentering on the experience of clients who are erotically marginalized. The SHQ is meant to be a guiding tool for clinicians to consensually begin the process of naming that which is often unspoken or unnamed for clients who are erotically marginalized. The SHQ is a structured container that allows clients to feel that they have the right and ability to lead their own journey of exploration around their intimate, sexual and gendered histories, presents and futures.
This workshop is an interactive exploration of the overlaps and intersections of socially-just therapy, radical clinical practices and erotic and sexual template awareness in the therapeutic relationship. It will acknowledge that socially-just talk therapy should inherently include an introductory level understanding of sex and gender therapy. Core concepts and principles of sex therapy will be offered and we will explore the countertransferential dilemmas that therapists come up against when introducing sex and gender theories into their practice. Case examples will be presented to illuminate strategies for integrating the foundations of sex education into daily therapy practice.
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