Please join Atar Stav, LCPC, NCC, who will share her expertise in blending trauma therapy with sex and couples counseling. You’ll learn practical tools, somatic techniques, and relational frameworks to address intimacy challenges rooted in trauma, helping clients reconnect with themselves and their partners. Participants will also learn about common reactions trauma survivors may have to sexual intimacy in couples, as well as communication tools each partner can use to foster safety and trust in their relationship. Whether you work primarily with couples, individuals, or trauma survivors, this training will give you the skills to integrate healing and intimacy work in a way that’s safe, effective, and transformative.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

1. Identify at least three ways trauma can influence sexual functioning, desire, and relational dynamics within couples.

2. Apply two or more trauma-informed, body-based interventions to help clients safely explore intimacy and enhance emotional and physical connection.

Atar Stav, LCPC, NCC (she/her) is a trauma-informed sex and relationship therapist practicing at Joanne Bagshaw & Associates. She holds an MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Johns Hopkins University and an MA in Human Rights & Humanitarian Action from Sciences Po, Paris School of International Affairs. Atar has extensive experience working with refugees, and her clinical training integrates modalities including sensorimotor psychotherapy, sex therapy, somatic attachment, Imago therapy, DBT, trauma‑focused CBT, narrative therapy, and trauma stabilization technique. Atar is a Nationally Certified Counselor through the NBCC and an approved LGPC supervisor in Maryland.

CEU Information

This program meets the requirements of the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT) and is approved for 2 CE credits and is considered synchronous learning if in attendance during the live webinar. These CE credits may be applied toward AASECT certification and renewal of certification through Flourish Media & Education (# 21-716-FME). Completion of this program does not ensure or guarantee AASECT Certification. For further information please contact ce@aasect.org.

This training is eligible for 2 CE hours from the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC). Flourish Media & Education has been approved by NBCC as a Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7774. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Flourish Media & Education is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.

A recording of the workshop will be provided to participants; however, CEUs are provided for LIVE ONLINE or in person programming only.

Cost & Registration

$60 Register Here.

If you need special accommodations or have questions, please contact us.

Flourish Media & Education is the education affiliate of Joanne Bagshaw & Associates. Contact information: Joanne Bagshaw, 316 Main Street, Suite 200. Gaithersburg, MD 20874. 301.288.3723. joanne@joannebagshaw.com

Low desire is the most prevalent sexual dysfunction among women, and the most common reason women pursue sex therapy. Low desire cases are generally complex and require a systemic lens. This interactive program will focus on dismantling the heteronormative bias that underlies the high rates of diagnosed low desire among women. Effective interventions for individual and couples therapy will be covered.

Time will be allotted during the workshop for a case consultation. If you would like to present a case during the workshop for consultation, please fill out this form.

After attending this training, participants will be able to:

1. Define three different types of desire

2. Identify at least three variables that impact desire. 

3. Identify at least two interventions that treat low desire.

This program meets the requirements of the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT) and is approved for 2 CE credits and is considered synchronous learning if in attendance to the live webinar. These CE credits may be applied toward AASECT certification and renewal of certification through Flourish Media & Education.. Completion of this program does not ensure or guarantee AASECT Certification. For further information please contact ce@aasect.org.

About the Presenter: 

Joanne Bagshaw, Ph.D., LCPC is an award-winning professor of psychology and women’s studies at Montgomery College. She is an AASECT-certified sex therapist and the founder of Joanne Bagshaw & Associates, a group practice focused on sex and relationship therapy in Maryland. She is also an LGPC board-approved supervisor in Maryland. Joanne is the author of "The Feminist Handbook: Practical Tools to Resist Sexism and Dismantle the Patriarchy“ and writes the popular feminist blog, “The Third Wave,” for Psychology Today. 

Flourish Media & Education is the education affiliate of Joanne Bagshaw & Associates.

Please note that the date of this event has changed from April 29, to May 13. This program is from 12:00-2:00 p.m. EDT.

REGISTER HERE:

Join me (via Zoom) and the Integrative Sex Therapy Institute for a day of training on Intersectionality and Sexism in Relationships:

Promoting Sexual Health & Pleasure with an Intersectional Lens

10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m

Social inequities contribute to sexual dysfunction and create barriers for oppressed and minoritized groups to access pleasure. Sex therapists are in a unique position to address the effects of systemic oppression by using an intersectional analysis to help create practices that build resilience and resistance to oppression and help the communities we serve access and experience sexual pleasure.

Sexism in Relationships: COVID-19 and the Impact on Working Women

2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m
Outdated gender roles have put women, and particularly women who are mothers, under extraordinary stress during the pandemic. The unequal distribution of labor in the home is magnified during the pandemic and the mass exodus of women forced to leave the workforce is causing immediate economic and psychological stress and deepening inequities. In this workshop, we will take a deep dive in understanding how we got here, and what we, as sex therapists can do about it.

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Low desire is the most common reason women come to see me for sex therapy. 

Why is low desire common for women? Well it depends a lot on how you view desire, but here are some reasons: 

* Women have been conditioned to tune out the sensations in our bodies so we don’t feel desire even when we have it

* Society gives us constant confusing messages about our bodies and our sexuality so we often find sex stressful 

* No one tells us that our sexual response cycle is different than men’s until we start looking for answers 

* Women’s desire in long term relationships tends to go down over time

* Women’s desire is strongly influenced by external factors, so job stress, relationship conflict, political stressors can all affect our experience of desire. 

Fortunately, you don’t have to figure out all of this stuff for yourself. I'm giving a workshop that teaches women how to reignite their sexual desire. 

IGNITE: Rekindle your Sexual Spark is designed to teach women how to reignite their sexual desire. 

I’m an AASECT certified sex therapist with decades of clinical experience, and I’ve compiled the best tools and strategies available to provide you with the knowledge and understanding you need to rekindle your sexual spark: 

In this workshop, you’ll learn how to:

● Tap into the sexual desire you already have.

● Understand your desire and arousal patterns

● Own your orgasm, by knowing what you want and how to ask for it. 

● Get out of your head during sex and be present in the moment.

● Stop letting body image issues get in your way of your pleasure 

What you can expect: 

This virtual workshop is held via Zoom, webinar style, so participants videos won't be visible.

Participants who register before 10/9/20 will receive a Google form to able to ask questions anonymously prior to the event. Answers will be included in event programming. 

Participants will receive a recording, in case you miss the live event, and a workbook to personalize and deepen your learning. 

Note that this workshop is tailored for cis-gender women of any sexual orientation.

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If you have (or had) a narcissist or other manipulative person in your life, and you want to make sure that you’ve never manipulated again, sign up for my webinar.

In this workshop you will:

• Learn the difference between gaslighting and lying

• Understand who gaslights and why

• Identify the role that gender plays in gaslighting dynamics

• Understand how gaslighting is built into our culture

• Understand how structural power is used to embolden gaslighters

• Recognize DARVO, a common way gaslighters defend themselves by turning up the gas

• Learn the five tools necessary for you to turn off the gas.

This workshop will help you build resilience and power for your future because you’ll know exactly what you need to do when someone tries to manipulate you.

Plus, you’ll get a nice workbook and a recording of the event. :)

$97.

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Recent feminist movements such as #MeToo and #TimesUp have called out sexism. They have empowered women to become more aware and also raise more questions: How do we find common ground in the new world we are building? How do we keep the momentum going with individual power, structural power and the power of movements? How do we handle a real situation at work, which could affect our livelihoods?

Join psychotherapist and professor Joanne Bagshaw, author of The Feminist Handbook, in a lively, engaging dialogue meant to educate, prompt inner reflection and inspire. Walk away with a plan to help change society for yourself, your community and future generations. 

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From reproductive rights and the wage gap to #MeToo and #TimesUp—gender inequality permeates nearly every aspect of our culture. According to award-winning psychology professor Joanne Bagshaw, the message that our society sends to women and girls is clear: you’re not enough. She offers tools for women everywhere to navigate institutionalized sexist power structures, attitudes, and events that are outside of our control. With advice from her book The Feminist Handbook: Practical Tools to Resist Sexism and Dismantle the Patriarchy, Bagshaw helps us confront negative messages that have been deeply internalized by our society, combat the effects of gender and race discrimination, and create lasting change through activism and community. Join Bagshaw as she untangles the role that sexism and discrimination plays in our lives, our mental health, and our overall sense of well-being.

Joanne L. Bagshaw, PhD, is an award-winning professor of psychology and women’s studies at Montgomery College. She is also an ASSECT-certified sex therapist with a private practice in Maryland, where she lives with her husband and daughter. Joanne writes the popular feminist blog, The Third Wave for Psychology Today.

Power, privilege, and oppression are communicated through our bodies. This day-long workshop is designed to give Core Energetics practitioners the opportunity to explore how white privilege is embodied, informed by white supremacy, and communicated through the body. We will also explore how to use awareness and movement to communicate compassion, respect, and humility.

The following themes and objectives will be explored through discussion, journaling, and movement:

• Understand the role of implicit bias in how privilege is embodied

• Learn how white people communicate superiority and maintain privilege through movement and posture

• Learn typical patterns of white ways of moving, and what they communicate

• Understand how intersections of white racial identity, gender, and sexual orientation add complexity and affect embodied privilege

• Identify ways white people can become more self-aware and interrupt oppressive cycles

This workshop is for Core Energetics alumni who identify as having white privilege, and who are willing to engage in work that is anti-racist and anti-oppression. Please register for this workshop through The Institute of Core Energetics.

Joanne Bagshaw, PhD, LCPC, is an award-winning professor of psychology and women's studies at Montgomery College. She is an AASECT certified sex therapist, with a private practice in Maryland. Joanne writes the popular feminist blog, The Third Wave for Psychology Today, and is the author of “The Feminist Handbook, Practical Tools to Resist Sexism and Dismantle the Patriarchy.”