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• Skills to initiate and guide discussions about sex that can be implemented in the very first client session The six principles of sexual health to direct treatment planning and interventions Leave with a personal assessment plan that affirms your current strengths and identifies new skills for welcoming clients into conversations about sex How can it be that you know you should be talking about sex with your client, yet you just don’t find yourself doing it?
• Clients expect therapists to initiate informed, confident and relevant discussions about sex, yet many therapists unwittingly hinder this expectation.
• Clinicians often don’t have the mentoring or training that would allow them to talk confidently about sex.
• Too often, the solution to this gap is to avoid the sexual health conversation altogether or refer clients to the local sex expert.
• Unfortunately, this often means that the conversation never happens or, worse, that the client begins to believe that sex only gets talked about when there is a crisis, or when someone has been hurt.