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• Sex on the Spectrum: Navigating Intimacy with Autism

  • When
    17 Oct 2024
  •  
    3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    online, synchronous, via Zoom

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  Sex on the Spectrum: Navigating Intimacy With Autism

  Thursday, October 17, 2024, 3:00-5:00pm Central
  

  online, synchronous via Zoom
  

  2 CEUs

  
  

  Learn how to support autistic individuals in enjoying intimacy, working through sexual obstacles, building confidence, and more. Autistic people’s sensory sensitivities, different ways of processing social and emotional information, cognitive rigidity, and passionate interests may present challenges but can also be leveraged as assets in the bedroom. This talk will cover how autistic people may approach sex differently from neurotypical people and how sexuality professionals can help them.

  Learning outcomes:

  • Describe how autistic people may approach sexuality differently
  • Discuss ways that autistic people can leverage and enjoy these differences
  • Suggest scripts for autistic clients to communicate about consent, boundaries, and preferences
  • Offer tips for autistic people to increase their confidence

  Bio:

  Suzannah Weiss is an AASECT-certified sex educator, sex/love coach, sexual assault counselor, and sex/relationship writer with work published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and more. She's also the author of Subjectified: Becoming a Sexual Subject, which describes her search for sexual empowerment and her vision for a world where everyone gets to be subjects, not just objects, of desire. Diagnosed with autism at age 31, she works with people on the autism spectrum to bring their authentic selves to their relationships and sex lives.

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• **New Date** Justice Oriented Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)

  • When
    13 Dec 2024
  •  
    12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
  • Location
    online, via Zoom

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  Justice Oriented Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)

  December 13, 2024

  12:00-1:30pm Central time
  

  online, via Zoom
  

  1.5 CEUs
  

  
  

  
  

  Please join us as we host a national speaker in the area of anxiety treatment!

  
  

  LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

  1) Describe harmful practices that have been normalized in the Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) field

  2) Generate examples of traditional Exposure and Response Prevention (ERPs) vs Justice Orientated ERPs for identity-related OCD themes

  3) Provide examples of ways to generalize justice oriented practices to exposures for other anxiety disorders (e.g., social anxiety, PTSD, etc.)
  

  
  

  BIOGRAPHY:
  

  Dr. Lauren Wadsworth (she/her) is a clinical psychologist passionate about expanding access to evidence-based treatments for OCD and other anxiety disorders. She is the founder and director of the Genesee Valley Psychology (GVP), a clinic providing evidence-based treatment to the Rochester, NY area. She is also the co-founder of Twin Stars Diversity Trainers, a consultation company offering diversity and identity-related trainings for organizations and leadership. She serves as a Senior Advisor on the Anti-Racist, Justice and Health Equity team at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School. Finally, she is a Clinical Senior Instructor in Psychiatry at the University of Rochester Medical Center.

  *If you previously registered for this event (originally scheduled for September 26th) and are not able to make the new time or would like a refund, please email rcraney45@gmail.com*

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