This training introduces and explores Non-Demand Sex Therapy. This is a therapeutic approach that can remove stress and anxiety from the therapy process and better enable service users to discover ways intimacy works for them.
With the focus on their own experiencing, and unable to seek reassurance from their partner, couples learn to notice and confidently manage their own anxiety. Counter-intuitively, they’re able to recognise and share their needs and wishes more quickly and to take more responsibility for the pace and progress of their therapy programme, with the therapist moving more rapidly into a supervisory rather than directive role.
Content will help build knowledge around:
- The rationale for non-demand sex therapy.
- How non-demand sex therapy affects the entire process.
- How to deliver non-demand sex therapy.
- How to address blocks within the process.
About the Trainer
Cate Campbell is primarily a Sex and Relationships Therapist working privately with individuals, couples and families. She has a particular interest in trauma and attachment. She is a lecturer with the Foundation for Counselling & Relationship Studies and previously with the Relate Institute. She taught CBT at Amersham & Wycombe College from 2010-2017 and is a visiting lecturer at University College London. She is a supervisor, both in private practice and for agencies which have included Relate and Rape Crisis.
Publications include The Relate Guide to Sex & Intimacy, Love & Sex in A New Relationship and Contemporary Sex Therapy (2020).
