Level 1: Somatic-Concentric Sex Therapy Training

Somatic-Concentric Sex Therapy is designed by Melissa Walker MA, R-DMT, LPC, CST (she/her) who crafted a union of sex therapy with somatic psychotherapy and dance/movement therapy. Melissa designed it with the working therapist in mind. You will learn an experiential model for understanding and working with the sexuality of your clients that includes assessment tools, interventions, applications for the individual and those in relationship, as well as an embodied ethical decision-making method to work through the boundary issues that inevitably arise in therapy.

After this course, you will have the tools to get clients out of the talk therapy space and into their bodies as you guide them through a somatic-based experience that will help them ally with their sexuality. The goal is for these tools to be incorporated into your practice with your own style and flair as you too will be guided through experientials that help you learn this model from the inside out.

Bring your excitement, your curiosity, and your wisdom as we learn together how to rewrite sex-negative, disembodied sex/ual/ity. The possibilities are truly endless.

• Understand and articulate a somatic and dance movement therapy approach to sex therapy * Support your clients to develop a practice of secure attachment with their body 
• Learn the Erotic Bodyfulness practice*
• Understand arousal anatomy as a part of total body connectivity 
• Learn a model of Whole-Person Sexual Response
• Assess a client's sexual problems using an integrated clinical somatic tool that incorporates body movement observation and assessment which also integrates the impact of their sociocultural location.
• Address common presenting sexual problems such as desire difference, arousal non-concordance, anorgasmia, or arousal anatomy difficulties.
• Apply this inclusive somatic model to a diversity of client experiences & presentations
• Navigate ethical dilemmas that arise in therapy
• Support your clients to craft their own supportive community & therapeutic team

15 NBCC hours+ ASECT Credits $25 at checkout