• Marla Stewart
• Summer

This course provides students an opportunity to see how Black couples and individuals understand their sexuality as it pertains to the pursuit of pleasure. While in their pursuit, we will take a deep dive into what it is like to help your clients understand their sexuality, what it means to “queer” their sexuality and how the invocation of kink can help to enhance their intimacy skills, work through their psychological hang-ups, and pave a new avenue of pleasure.

• Juan Camerena
• Fall, Spring and Summer

This thought-provoking course will take a critical and reflective approach to examine a range of sexual behaviors and expressions that may be, for various reasons, viewed as problematic. Such areas may include out of control sexual behaviors, rape culture, exploitation, sexuality & substances, and harassment. The course will consider issues of ethics, historical context, and various therapeutic approaches and interventions.

A separate portion of this course will highlight Dr. Camarena's expertise in working with models of gender and sexual identity, the intersections of race and sexuality, and sex therapy within the LGBTQQIA community.

• Estefanía Simich
• Fall, Spring and Summer

This course explores some of the intersections that might present in sex therapy when working with clients from diverse backgrounds and from different parts of the world. It is through the exploration of these intersections (e.g., culture, religion, migration, intergenerational teachings), that the course will focus on providing a space for exploration of ways of approaching cases and learning new practical skills to use with diverse groups of clients in sex therapy. The course emphasizes on the impact of patriarchal systems, systems of oppression, gender violence, sexual rights, migration and how this presents itself in sex therapy.

• Fiona O’Farrell - Spring

In this two-day workshop, Dr. Fiona O’Farrell will facilitate a learning process designed to help clinicians in building a skillset to working with various relationship structures from a sexological perspective. Students will be introduced to common issues that bring relational clients into sex therapy, as well as, clinical strategies for addressing those issues through the theoretical lens of the Developmental Model of Couples Therapy (Bader/Pearson). Opportunities will be provided for reflection on personal experiences and cultural norms that may impact their ability to practice effectively with relational clients. Participants will leave with strategies for conceptualizing couples and relational therapy cases, and a robust set of treatment strategies for working with a broad range of relational and sex-related challenges from a queer informed lens.

• Anne Mauro - Summer & Fall

In this two-day workshop, Anne Mauro will facilitate a learning process designed build
foundational systemic sex therapy skills. This weekend course is highly experiential with demos,
role-plays, and the Case Game.

• Bianca Laureano
• Fall, Spring and Summer

This course is designed to offer all students exposure in the form of facilitated discussion, small group activities, self-reflection, and media consumption along a range of sexual practices and experiences. The focus of the course utilizes an intersectional, justice-centered, and anti-oppression framework, to facilitate and address unexamined axiological assumptions we all hold about romantic orientations, bodies, gender, sexual exploration and attractions; and to consider and stay curious about them as a reflexive lifelong practice. This course is aligned to and is part of the AASECT sex educator and AASECT sex therapy certification and is considered one of the components of competency in core knowledge and experience in the field. The content will consist of a range of media with captions, that support various learning styles, and is presented by an experienced and certified facilitator.

• Reece Malone
• Summer

This course will take a foundational approach to equip clinicians with working applicable knowledge
about approaches in sex therapy. The course covers systemic sex therapy, assessment, and the use of
ecological screeners to assess and offer pathways to psychosexual disorders.

The course content also covers treatment modalities, how and when to work with individuals and
diverse relationships, and what and how to identify various ecologic and systemic factors for the
purpose of case conceptualization and intervention selection.

• Zoe and Walt Sipe
• Fall and Spring

This course emphasizes therapeutic stance related to sex therapy, working with eroticism in the clinical context, and practical demonstrations of common presenting issues in sex therapy. There will be training around participants' ongoing personal and professional development as sex therapists. We will integrate multiple theoretical orientations to sex therapy including behavioral, somatic, psychodynamic, gestalt, and attachment. As sex therapy often includes interaction with medical issues, we will also work with assessment, psychopharmacologic impacts, and working with interdisciplinary teams, including medical professionals.

• Damon Constantinides
• Fall and Spring

This course provides an introduction to a framework for sex therapy with trans and non-binary clients that is rooted in narrative therapy, transfeminism, queer theory, intersectionality and in challenging the cissexist culture we are all living in. Nine principles for providing sex therapy to erotically marginalized clients will be discussed with case examples.

Payment plans are offered at no additional cost. The specific details of these payment plans will be sent out as part of a welcome packet once the application period is over and all applicants are accepted. See below for more details.

As part of our mission to expand the field of sex therapy, CIIS has designated funds to offer up to three half $3,500 scholarships, and two partial $2,000 scholarships to every cohort for those in financial need.

The Future Leader scholarships are specifically for applicants who plan to use their Sex Therapy Certificate not only to expand their personal practice, but to pursue a leadership position within the field of sex therapy (i.e. pursue AASECT certification to become a Sex Therapy Supervisor, teach sex therapy to others in your profession, bring sex therapy techniques into your workplace and/or community, and more).

To apply, please upload a 1-2 page essay with your program application that answers the following questions. Please note that the deadline to apply for a scholarship is earlier than the final deadline to apply for the program.
 

• How will you pursue a leadership position within the field of sex therapy after you complete your training?
• How will you bring the sexuality and sex therapy education you receive in this program to others in your professional and/or other communities?
• What is your financial situation and why are you applying for a scholarship?

Spring: A non-refundable application fee of $50 is due at the time of application. Payment of the program fee (or the first payment of your payment plan) must be received by February 1 to secure your space in the program. Payment plans are available and will be provided to accepted applicants. If a student withdraws before March 1, 50% of the full fee will be due. The full fee is due if a student withdraws after March 1.

Summer: A non-refundable application fee of $50 is due at the time of application. Payment of the program fee (or the first payment of your payment plan) must be received by June 1 to secure your space in the program. Payment plans are available and will be provided to accepted applicants. If a student withdraws before July 1, 50% of the full fee will be due. The full fee is due if a student withdraws after July 1.

Fall: A non-refundable application fee of $50 is due at the time of application. Payment of the program fee (or the first payment of your payment plan) must be received by September 1 to secure your space in the program. Payment plans are available and will be provided to accepted applicants. If a student withdraws before October 1, 50% of the full fee will be due. The full fee is due if a student withdraws after October 1.

Applicants will be notified of their acceptance and scholarship decision (if applicable) within two weeks after the application deadline.