History of the discipline of sex research

Title of Event: Addressing Sexual Trauma and Abuse in Sex Therapy

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This webinar will explore the impact of sexual trauma on intimacy and sexuality, including how it affects overall development and sexual development. Participants will learn to understand common traumatic responses and apply trauma-sensitive practices, as well as examine the effects of sexual trauma on couples and relationships.

Date of Event: Thursday, January 29th, 2026

Time of Event: 12:00 PM EST - 3:00 PM EST

Location: Online Synchronous

Title of Event: Sensate Focus in Sex Therapy: Unlocking Pleasure, Safety, and Connection

Description of Event:

How do we treat erectile dysfunction, sexual pain, vaginismus, rapid or “premature” ejaculation, low desire and difficulties with arousal and orgasm, among others? How do we bring our patients out of performance narratives and into their bodies, into pleasure? How do we unravel our patients from sexual trauma, bringing them into a greater sense of emotional and physical safety, embodiment, and freedom?

Title of Event: Clinical Intake & The PLISSIT Model in Sex Therapy

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Title of Event: Certificate in Sex Therapy

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A Global Pathway to Professional Competence in Psychosexual Therapy
The Certificate in Sex Therapy Program is a 150-hour comprehensive educational experience designed to prepare clinicians, educators, and allied professionals for ethical, inclusive, and evidence-based psychosexual therapy practice.

Title of Event: EDSE Sex Educator Certification - Fall 2026

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FALL 2026 Cohort:

EDSE’s Sex Educator Certification is packed with the expansive sexuality, health, and pleasure information you need to level-up your career, elevate your knowledge, and become a true change-maker. We welcome attendees of all experience levels and from any service-centered field, including established sex educators, clinicians, and pleasure professionals seeking to brush up on their skills and knowledge with up-to-date language, information, and perspectives.

Title of Event: EDSE Sex Educator Certification - Spring 2026

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SPRING 2026 Cohort:

EDSE’s Sex Educator Certification is packed with the expansive sexuality, health, and pleasure information you need to level-up your career, elevate your knowledge, and become a true change-maker. We welcome attendees of all experience levels and from any service-centered field, including established sex educators, clinicians, and pleasure professionals seeking to brush up on their skills and knowledge with up-to-date language, information, and perspectives.

Title of Event: EDSE Sex Educator Certification

Description of Event:

EDSE’s Sex Educator Certification is packed with the expansive sexuality, health, and pleasure information you need to level-up your career, elevate your knowledge, and become a true change-maker. We welcome attendees of all experience levels and from any service-centered field, including established sex educators, clinicians, and pleasure professionals seeking to brush up on their skills and knowledge with up-to-date language, information, and perspectives.

Title of Event: Applied Clinical Ethics in Sex Therapy Practice

Description of Event:

Most ethics workshops have focuses primarily on the essential elements of risk management. While such concepts are clearly important, they represent only a fraction of what ethics and ethical practice should be about.  Indeed, most ethics workshops encourage sex therapists (and other healthcare practitioners) to think more like lawyers than as clinicians.

Title of Event: HSEX 6011: Impacts of Law, Policy, and Government Regulation on Human Sexuality

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Title of Event: HSEX 6013: Perspectives and Practices in Sexual Health Education

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This course covers the history of sexuality education, primarily in the US with international comparison, as well as current and emerging issues in sexual health education. Using readings, discussion forums, peer review, and an applied final project, students will understand the temporal changes in sexual health education in the US and abroad and the empirical, theoretical, and educational foundations of sexual health education.