StrAIght guise: Helping Male Clients with Identity Confusion with Dr. Joe Kort + expert guest speakers!
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."
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.
More speakers coming soon!
SCHEDULE
SATURDAY, June 21st
START TIME: 10:00AM PST, 6:00 PM CST.
SUNDAY, June 22nd
START TIME: 10:00AM PST, 6:00 PM CST.
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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, and erotic attractions using the “beach test”.
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.
WANT TO BECOME SHA CERTIFIED?:
Want to stop paying for conferences one by one and gain hours towards AASECT Certification too? This program can also be registered for and included as part of SHA’s full Sexuality Educator/Counselor/Sex Therapy Certification & Sexuality Consultant Program. Apply HERE to become SHA Certified and to gain all the CEs you need to apply towards AASECT Certification. Take your sexuality education even further and become sexceptional.
More Speakers to be Announced Soon!
MORE ABOUT OUR PRESENTER:
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.
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“Excellent! I thought this was one of the most useful and informative workshops I have attended in a long time. Outstanding speakers who were well-knowledgeable in their areas of expertise. Also, each talk was engaging and I found all the material applicable to my business in several ways. A+ Thank you, SHA staff!”