[Audio] CC15 Workshop 04 – Rethinking Couples Therapy: Innovative Approaches to Love, Sex, and Infidelity – Esther Perel, MA, LMFT

Description:Description:

Through case examples, Esther Perel will show how to effectively engage such issues as intimacy, sexuality and infidelity by creating separate spaces where each partner can explore his/her feelings and experiences along with larger relationship dynamics. We will show how to navigate privacy and secrecy, honesty and transparency, stage interventions around sexual impasses, and structure a safe and flexible therapeutic environment to work effectively with infidelity.Through case examples, Esther Perel will show how to effectively engage such issues as intimacy, sexuality and infidelity by creating separate spaces where each partner can explore his/her feelings and experiences along with larger relationship dynamics. We will show how to navigate privacy and secrecy, honesty and transparency, stage interventions around sexual impasses, and structure a safe and flexible therapeutic environment to work effectively with infidelity.

Educational Objectives:Educational Objectives:

1. How to create a safe and non-judgmental therapeutic environment to work with secrets, privacy, transparency and truth-telling.How to create a safe and non-judgmental therapeutic environment to work with secrets, privacy, transparency and truth-telling.
2. Present a more nuanced therapeutic approach for working with extra-marital relations past and present, fantasized or real, disclosed or withheld.Present a more nuanced therapeutic approach for working with extra-marital relations past and present, fantasized or real, disclosed or withheld.
3. Introduce two interventions for couples to rebuild trust and intimacy and to promote erotic recovery following an affair.Introduce two interventions for couples to rebuild trust and intimacy and to promote erotic recovery following an affair.

*Sessions may be edited for content and to preserve confidentiality**Sessions may be edited for content and to preserve confidentiality*