The Emotionally Safe Relationship Model™ reminds clients that they are individuals before becoming a couple. Taking responsibility and ownership while creating safe relational moments provides a solid foundation for genuine hopefulness and lasting, intimate...
Love and Sex: Men, Women, and Relationships
605 | The Intimacy Pyramid: Healthy Sexual Reintegration After Infidelity
Couples seeking restoration in sexual intimacy in marriages damaged by sexual addiction, infidelity, or betrayal want to know and follow the right path and timing for healing. This presentation will introduce “The Intimacy Pyramid” model, which licensed mental health...
505 | Above the Sheets: Barriers to Sexual Intimacy Outside the Bedroom
When it comes to sexual intimacy, unexpected factors often get in the way of a healthy and fulfilling marital sex life. Many of those factors have to do with things outside of the act of sex. Licensed mental health practitioners and ministry leaders must thoroughly...
405 | Let’s Talk About Sex: Giving Couples Essential Tools for Renewing Connection and Maximizing Intimacy
One of the most simple but potent tools for helping couples with sexual intimacy is helping them communicate—and know what to communicate about. Recent nationally-representative research demonstrates that sexual intimacy is vital for marriage and communication for...
305 | Restoring Hope and Healing to Clients Experiencing Reproductive Trauma
Reproductive trauma is specialized trauma comprised of miscarriage, infertility, premature or complicated birth, carrying a baby with health risks, and subsequent reoccurring losses. Approximately one in four will experience miscarriage and loss, while one in eight...
205 | When Trust Has Been Broken: The Roadmap to Repairs
Pornography, adultery, addictions, and abuse destroy safety and trust in a marriage. If possible, licensed mental health professionals and ministry leaders want to see a broken marriage reconciled. But what are the specific steps necessary to rebuild shattered trust?...
105 | Treating Betrayal Trauma, Sexual Abuse, and Toxic Shame in the New World
Sexual norms continue to change in today’s culture. Like menus aimed at “having it your way,” the Internet, social media, smartphones, and virtual sex at the click of a finger have created fast sexual fixes that are destroying families. Today’s pornography is steeped...