Working with Erotically Expansive, Non-Monogamous Individuals and Couples
Expanding the Relationship Paradigm in Clinical Practice
- Speaker:
- Angela Gunn, LCSW, CST
- Duration:
- 1 Hour 23 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
-
Jun 30, 2022
- Product Code:
- POS058984
- Media Type:
- Digital Seminar
Description
Love is expansive, organic and limitless. And yet our cultural paradigm for love, and clinical work in relationships, centers on heteronormative monogamy and a singluar sexual, romantic, and life partner. In this recording, we will explore current relationship paradigms, discuss emerging alternatives, and unpack the clinical implications of moving towards a more expansive sex and relationship model.
Queering therapy at every level means eliminating default modes, considering the vast horizons possible when oppression is dismantled and the complexities of humans are uplifted. We will plant seeds for further learning about therapy with relationally and erotically diverse clients in general!
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Handouts/Brochure
| File type | File name | Number of pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manual - Working with Erotically Expansive, Non- Monogamous Individuals and Couples (4.1 MB) | 23 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Transcript - Working with Erotically Expansive, Non-Monogamous Individuals and Couples (458.2 KB) | 20 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Working with Erotically Expansive, Non- Monogamous Individuals and Couples - French (4.1 MB) | 23 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Transcript - Working with Erotically Expansive, Non-Monogamous Individuals and Couples - French (458.2 KB) | 20 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Working with Erotically Expansive, Non- Monogamous Individuals and Couples - Italian (4.1 MB) | 23 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Transcript - Working with Erotically Expansive, Non-Monogamous Individuals and Couples - Italian (458.2 KB) | 20 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Working with Erotically Expansive, Non- Monogamous Individuals and Couples - German (4.1 MB) | 23 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Working with Erotically Expansive, Non- Monogamous Individuals and Couples - Spanish (4.1 MB) | 23 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Speaker
Angela Gunn, LCSW, CST Related seminars and products
Angela Gunn, LCSW, CST (known as Soleil Merroir), is a licensed clinical social worker, AASECT certified sex therapist and supervisor, and a sex worker with more than 20 years in both industries. Within the therapeutic world, Soleil traversed child welfare, institutional, private practice, group and telehealth settings, bringing deep empathy and a systems change mindset to the work. They served as the sexuality expert for Talkspace.com and sat on the board of SPEEC, a sexuality non-profit formerly in Portland, OR. Teaching and facilitation accompanied much of their clinical work, including offerings related to trauma, alternative sexualities and communities, polyamory, BDSM and trauma, the intersections of sexuality and mental health, and pleasure centered care. They co-founded the Equitable Care Certification (ECC), a non-profit focused on training mental health professionals in sex work affirming and anti-oppressive therapeutic care.
Soliel’s more recent work has focused on the intersection of sextech, sex work, human relationships and community stewardship. Their work integrates trauma-informed, sex-work-affirming, and cyberfeminist perspectives to support ethical, human-centered practice and community development in digital and immersive environments.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Angela Gunn has an employment relationship with Zepp Wellness Center. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Angela Gunn has no relevant non-financial relationships.
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Objectives
- Assess relationship structures from a more critical lens and apply alternative relationship structures to work with clients.
- Integrate two skills to increase non-judgement and curiosity when meeting with relationally diverse clients.
- Utilize and adapt clinical skills and tools such as IFS and EFT to support couple or a group therapy.
Outline
History of Our Relationship Paradigm:- Purpose/historical/sociological role of monogamy and heteronormativity
- Types of relationships/structures
- Space for gender/ sexual diversity within relational diversity
- Queerness
- Gender expansiveness
- Kink
- Caring for relationally and erotically diverse folks
- Oppression that results/ stigma and harm
- IFS adapted
- Non-judgement/ curiosity
- EFT/ couples models adapted
- Trauma integration in healing relationship-based oppression
- Queering therapy and the process
Target Audience
- Addiction Counselors
- Counselors
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Nurses
- Psychologists
- Therapists
- Social Workers
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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