This training explores the ethical, legal, professional, and value-related challenges faced by sex therapists, particularly those practicing within Christian or faith-based settings. Topics include professional ethics, relevant legal cases, informed consent, confidentiality, professional boundaries, cultural and value conflicts in sex therapy practice, and examining the integration of one’s Christian identity with the ethical and professional responsibilities of a licensed mental health professional and sex therapist.

The Enneagram is a tool that describes personality and can be used to promote spiritual and personal growth. In psychotherapy, the Enneagram can be a tool to help individuals understand their behavioral patterns. By fostering self-compassion and understanding, users can choose to move away from destructive cycles—such as shame and contempt—toward deeper intimacy with themselves and others.  In this CE course, Mary Margaret Johnson teaches the core concepts of the Enneagram and outlines guidelines for the ethical use of this tool in psychotherapy.

Debby Wade presents a brief history of group therapy, highlighting Irvin Yalom’s therapeutic factors in group work.  Describing open-ended, closed-ended, in-person and online groups, she discusses how to design a group for women dealing with sexual pain and outlines an eight week closed-ended curriculum participants can use to lead a group for women. Debby’s “Journey of the Courageous” walks participants through education, empowerment, obstacles to growth, emotional healing, shifting beliefs, and reclaiming healthy intimacy.  She encourages therapists to offer hope, to stay humble, and to keep the group focus on addressing the pain and increasing intimacy.

Using recent data from the CDC, SAMHSA, and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, this evidence-based presentation:

• Highlights suicide trends across age, race, and gender.

• Provides culturally responsive, trauma-informed, ethically sound practices for suicide prevention and intervention.

• Explores the emotional aftermath of suicide, including grief, mourning, and the impact of loss on families and communities.

• Challenges Providers to be aware of and manage compassion fatigue, secondary traumatic stress and burnout. 

The most common sexual issue brought to couple therapy and sex therapy is discrepancy in sexual desire (frequency, level, initiation).  In his recently published study, Dr. Michael Sytsma examines how initiating, receptive, and resistant desire types influence marital satisfaction and happiness.

This CEU course is a one hour overview of the Gottman Model for assessing and treating Affairs in committed couples.  Dr. Gary Barnes, with permission from the Gottmans, offers a "flyover" of the key concepts and treatment method offered by the Gottman Institute.  For those who have taken the longer Gottman training on Affairs, this is an excellent review of that training.

Neurodiverse relationships face the same challenges common to most couplings, yet also have unique hardships. Learning to recognize brain differences, and how they manifest within relationship dynamics, is key to offering the right kind of therapeutic support.

This 2 course bundle presents neurodivergent lived experience and empirical data to equip therapists to promote individual and relational health within neurodiverse populations.

This session will explore the physiological, psychological, and sexual health changes that occur throughout the menopausal transition. Dr. Christiansen will provide evidence-based insights on hormonal and non-hormonal treatment options and the impact of menopause on sexuality and relationships.

This seminar will address the use of psilocybin as a therapeutic agent and the role of psychological support in the therapeutic effect of psilocybin. It will also address ethical and legal challenges and the path to FDA approval and commercialization of psilocybin and other psychedelics.