Sexual Trauma To Triumph: HELPING CLIENTS WITH SEXUAL HEALTH AFTER TRAUMA
&
Striaght guise: Helping Male Clients with Identity Confusion
with Dr. Joe Kort
100% ONLINE CONFERENCE
We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Joe Kort, a distinguished psychotherapist with a wealth of experience, will be a featured speaker at our January 2024 Sexceptional Weekend Online.
SHA welcomes Dr. Joe Kort back to our faculty to teach after not only teaching with Esther Perel, but also gaining his fame on TikTok!
As the clinical director and founder of The Center for Relationship and Sexual Health in Royal Oak, Michigan, Dr. Kort has dedicated 36 years to helping individuals and couples enhance their lives and strengthen their relationships. With expertise in a wide range of areas, from marital conflicts to sexual health, LGBTQIA affirmative therapy, and trauma recovery using EMDR, Dr. Kort's contributions to the field of psychotherapy are invaluable. He holds multiple certifications, is an accomplished author, and hosts the podcast series "Smart Sex, Smart Love."
From Sexual Trauma To Triumph: Helping Clients with Sexual Health after Trauma
Clients with sexual abuse histories often come to therapy with questions about their sexual expression and the obstacles they encounter in intimate relationships. They may find themselves engaging in trauma reenactment rather than safe, consensual sex and need a nonjudgmental space to explore what sexual recovery means for them. Even well-trained trauma therapists often lack the language, comfort, and skillset necessary to assist their clients through this process. This workshop will provide concrete strategies to help trauma survivors live more sexually fulfilling lives.
How different types of sexual abuse and trauma manifest in sexual behaviors, and how to help clients experience satisfaction in sexual health with more options than just avoiding triggers. How to help clients differentiate between unhealthy trauma reenactment and healthy playIdentify tools to help clients manage out-of-control sexual behaviors The counter transference issues that often arise for therapists around clients’ erotic interests, sexual expression, and behaviors in order to avoid negative judgment and the inadvertent shaming clients
Straight Guise: Helping Male Clients with Sexual Identity Confusion
Many therapists have reported an increase in male clients who are entering therapy with confusion around their sexual identity. These include self-identified straight men who are having sex with other men, gay men married to women and struggling to come out, and men who have been sexually abused by male perpetrators who are disoriented around their sexual orientation. To support these men, therapist need to know how to explore potential underlying reasons for confusion about sexual identity, which can range from histories of sexual abuse to fluid, heteroflexible, or bisexual identities. In this workshop, you’ll gain the most up-to-date information on how to talk about sexual identity, as well as techniques for working with these male clients and their partners. You’ll discover how to:
Learning Objectives:
Distinguish between gay, straight, bi and fluid identities
Ask the 4 essential questions to help male clients identify their sexual orientation, such as childhood experiences with males, erotic attractions using the “beach test” and early sexual trauma.
Understand the differences between erotic and sexual orientation where sexual orientation is to whom one is attracted and erotic orientation is what someone is attracted to.
Develop techniques for helping couples work[LK1] through one partner’s sexual identity confusion and its effects on their relationship
List the distinctions between gay, straight, bi and fluid identities* Learn essential questions to ask to help male clients identify their sexual orientation
Distinguish between erotic and sexual orientation
Develop techniques for helping couples work through one partner’s sexual identity confusion and its effects on their relationship.
Learn the 4 questions to ask male clients to help them self-identify their sexual orientation
Identify at least 6 different sexual identities to help men understand their own.
MORE ABOUT OUR PRESENTER:
Joe Kort, PhD, LMSW
Psychotherapist Joe Kort, PhD, LMSW, is the clinical director and founder of The Center for Relationship and Sexual Health in Royal Oak, Michigan. He is a board-certified clinical sexologist, author of four books, lecturer and facilitator of therapeutic workshops. Throughout his 36 years of private practice, he successfully has utilized varying therapy modalities to help hundreds of individuals and couples improve their lives and strengthen their relationships.
Dr. Kort specializes in marital problems and conflicts; mixed orientation marriages; male sexuality and sexual health concerns; “sex addiction,” out-of-control sexual behaviors; sexual identity issues; childhood sexual abuse; LGBTQIA Affirmative Therapy; and Imago Relationship Therapy.
He is trained in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing), a safe and effective treatment that can help patients who have suffered for years from anxiety, distressing memories, nightmares, insomnia, abuse or other traumatic events.
Dr. Kort obtained his undergraduate degree from Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan, with a dual major in psychology and social work. He earned master’s degrees in social work and psychology from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, and a doctorate (PhD) in Clinical Sexology from the American Academy of Clinical Sexologists.
WANT TO BECOME SHA CERTIFIED?:
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NEED A SCHOLARSHIP FOR THIS WEEKEND CONFERENCE?
In collaboration with the BIPOC Collective, SHA donates two full weekend scholarship spots to every conference for BIPOC-identifying individuals.
*The BIPOC Collective's mission is to support the diverse community of BIPOC adult performers and sex-workers within the adult industry through mutual aid and advocacy with dignity and respect.
STUDENT DISCOUNTS
Are you a current college or graduate student? Email shacertifications@gmail.com with a copy of your student ID and current or next term’s course schedule to get this conference at student rate.
*Please note, this discount does not include CEs.