Unleash the Power of Sex In EFT

with George Faller and Laurie Watson

When: February 27 & 28, 2025

Where: Northwest Arkansas

CEs: 12 Available

Cost: $ 525 Professionals / $ 475 Students

**Early Bird Rate: $475 through December 31st, 2024 ($525 after)

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About the Training:

Good news: if you’re a couple therapist, you’re also a sex therapist! Therapists have been taught that working with sexuality is a specialty, but it’s not. It can’t be. Why? For most couples, sexual attachment is as essential to their stability as emotional attachment. Unfortunately, most couple therapists get very little training in how to work with sexual attachment.

Over the last five years, George Faller and Laurie Watson been trying to normalize discussions about sex in their work and teaching as LMFTs on their highly ranked podcast, Foreplay, where they use their expertise to help couples resolve sexual difficulties and highlight the importance of therapists talking openly about sex. They believe it’s the therapist’s responsibility to initiate conversations around sexuality, rather than burdening couples with this potentially anxiety-provoking task.

Attachment theory demonstrates that there are three behavioral cycles in a romantic relationship: emotional, sexual, and caretaking. Together, they form the bond between the partners. And therapists need to become versatile in dealing with the cycles simultaneously. Sex particularly comprises the excitement and vitality in a romantic relationship. The power of sex in a relationship isn’t simply body parts and physiology; it’s a force of attachment.

Topics:

· What is Great Sex?

· What is the Sexual Attachment Cycle?

· When/How/Why to Bring Up Sex

· Anatomy and Physiology

· Sexual Assessment – BEST SEX TALK

· Four Common Sexual Dysfunctions

· Stage 1 in the SAC – TEMPO

· Stage 2 in the SAC - Blocks

The workshop will include lectures and interactive break-out sessions.

Learning objectives:

1. Identify the key assumptions of attachment theory as it applies to adult sexuality.

2. How to use specificity in the couple’s sexual encounter description to assemble, deepen, distill and share their emotional experience

3. Discuss common therapeutic impasses in EFT with sexuality and how to address them and implement EFT interventions in clinical exercises and case examples.

4. Name the typical sexual response sequence in male and female bodied people.

5. Use a sexual assessment in EFT treatment, including BEST SEX TALK.

6. Identify negative cycles around sexual issues in Stage 1 of EFT

7. Differentiate sexual concerns from attachment perspective.

8. Utilize Stage 2 EFT interventions effectively around sexual issues to create more secure bond in couples that leads to greater sexual fulfillment.

Email us with any questions: arkansaseft@gmail.com

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About Our Trainers:

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Laurie Watson

Phd, MA, LMFT, LCMHC, EFT Certified Therapist, AASECT Certified Sex Therapist & Supervisor (in Training)

Laurie has been a licensed couple’s counselor for over two decades and is certified in EFT and sex therapy. In clinical therapy, she has helped thousands of couples recover sexual passion and make love again in joyful, intimate, creative and exciting ways, sometimes even after years of sexless marriage. Due to her many years of counseling experience, Laurie remains incredibly hopeful that committed love and monogamous sex can fulfill a couple, heal deep wounds from childhood, restore each spouse to a sense of hope, and offer stability from which to face the world together.

She is the author of Wanting Sex Again – How to Rediscover Desire and Heal a Sexless Marriage, a blogger for WebMD and Psychology Today with over 15 M reads and the owner/ director for Awakenings Counseling & Counseling Near Me throughout North Carolina.

George Faller

MS, LMFT, EFT Certified Therapist, Supervisor and Trainer

George Faller, LMFT is a certified Supervisor Trainer/Therapist in EFT and founder of the New York Center for EFT. As an EFT Trainer, George teaches several classes at the Ackerman Institute for the Family (the oldest family institute in the United States) in NYC, is a board member of the Porter Cason Institute for the Family at Tulane University in New Orleans and is the director of training at the Center for Hope and Renewal in Greenwich, Ct. Specializing in trauma, Family EFT, and self-of-the-therapist issues, George is committed to bringing EFT to underprivileged populations and pushing the leading edge of effective therapy. George is the co-author of three books: True Connection: Using the NAME IT Model to Heal Relationships (Living With Hope), Sacred Stress: A Radically Different Approach to Using Life’s Challenges for Positive Change and Emotionally Focused Family Therapy: Restoring Connection and Promoting Resilience.

He has an online training series called Success In Vulnerability.

Prior to a career in mental health, he served as a firefighter and police officer for 20 years in New York City.

Laurie and George are the co-hosts of the podcast
FOREPLAY – Couples and Sex Therapy
with 400 episodes and over 10 M downloads.

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Email us with any questions: arkansaseft@gmail.com

Unleash the Power of Sex In EFT with George Faller and Laurie Watson