Building Connection: Improving Intimacy & Group Healing
  6 Hours, 0 Minutes   
Previously Recorded
   Rivka Sidorsky, LCSW, AASECT
   Shira Sameroff, LCSW
  
6 CE Credits
Price
$99.99

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Description

Full Day Webinar

September 26th, 2025

10:00 AM - 4:45 PM EST

The cost of one day is $99.99, an individual class is $59.99

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Class 1

10:00 AM - 1:00 PM EST

Helping Clients Shift from Sexual Obligation to Pleasure and How Attachment Styles Impact Sexual Desire

This 3-hour CE training explores how attachment dynamics and cultural or religious beliefs shape individuals’ experiences of sexual desire—particularly in relational contexts. The first half delves into attachment theory, offering a clinical understanding of how different attachment styles influence desire and arousal. The second half examines how sociocultural and religious narratives, especially those centered around sexual obligation, affect women’s sexual autonomy and pleasure. Through a culturally sensitive and trauma-informed lens, therapists will learn strategies to help clients (individuals and couples) untangle internalized messages about sex and foster a shift from obligation-based intimacy to authentic, connected desire.

(Trainer - Rivka Sidorsky is an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist, an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist Supervisor, an IAPST Certified Psychosexual Therapist, an IAPST Certified Psychosexual Supervisor, a licensed clinical social worker, a Social Work Board Certified Supervisor, a Faculty Lecturer, a published author, a Harvard University research fellowship recipient, and an experienced lecturer. She is the owner and director of a group psychotherapy practice in Silver Spring, Maryland. She was personally mentored and was trained in sexual dysfunction and sex therapy from internationally renowned Dr. Laura Berman, Oprah’s relationship and sex expert, at the Berman Center in Chicago. She teaches sex therapy on topics such as female sexual dysfunction, sexual pain, vaginismus, sexual aversion, couples sexual issues, and performing sex therapy with diverse religions and cultures. She lives in Silver Spring with her husband and their five children)

3 Hours

 

Class 2

1:45 PM - 4:45 PM EST

The Art of Group Facilitation for Practitioners

This continuing education webinar offers counseling practitioners with insights and skills in group facilitation, a powerful therapeutic approach that fosters collective healing and growth. We will cover areas including creating and maintaining supportive and inclusive environment for clients, understanding and navigating group dynamics, stages of group development, purposeful use of activity, self-awareness as a practitioner and dynamics of oppression and power This engaging and informative session aims to empower participants to lead impactful and transformative group sessions.

(Trainer - Shira Sameroff, LCSW is a therapist, coach, teacher and group facilitator with over 30 years of practice with people of diverse identities, ages and life stories in a wide array of settings. Professional roles have included therapy, supervision, group design and facilitation, professional development training, teaching, community organizing, transformative decluttering and a decade and a half on the leadership team of a community-based social work agency.

Shira weaves a range of therapeutic healing modalities including IFS, Hakomi and other holistic, somatic, nature-based and anti-oppressive practices into her work with individuals, groups and organizations. She works around themes including ending oppression, shame, loneliness, group facilitation, giving and receiving feedback, empowering practice with youth and tending to self as a practitioner.

Shira’s approach is collaborative, intuitive, creative and full of heart and is rooted in my own lived experience of healing, learning and emerging.)

3 Hours

 

 

 

This One Day Seminar includes two excellent classes, a total of 6 CEs. You may attend an individual class for $59.99.


Webinars included in this package:

Helping Clients Shift from Sexual Obligation to Pleasure and How Attachment Styles Impact Sexual Desire

The Art of Group Facilitation for Practitioners