I’m excited to announce the next online class offered by Southwestern College/New Earth Institute’s Human Sexuality Certificate:
Understanding & Working with Sexual Trauma
Saturday and Sunday, Feb 7th & 8th, 2026
9am-6:30pm Mountain Time Zone
Online Synchronous
DESCRIPTION: It is vital that mental health professionals know how to support their clients as they process experiences of sexual trauma and define what healing means to them. Clinical professionals specializing in sexuality need to understand the complexity and impact of sexual trauma on mental health and the sexual self. This course will discuss the prevalence of sexual trauma and how it effects people of all ages, genders, abilities, backgrounds, cultures, orientations, and ethnicities. Students will build skills in working with the emotional and physical impact of trauma, such as dissociation and dysregulation. Students will also learn how to help clients recognize and express their desires and boundaries, work with clients’ partners and relationship systems within a therapeutic setting, and how to design clinical policies and therapeutic practices that support clients’ autonomy and sense of agency. This course will examine how reclaiming pleasure can be a part of the healing process for many, and how the “self-of-the-therapist” and/or transference/counter-transference effects therapy, especially as many clinicians drawn to this work have had their own experiences of sexual trauma.
This course offers 16 contact hours toward the Human Sexuality Certificate & 16 AASECT CE’s
Cost: $375
Taught by: Laura Rademacher, MA, LMFT, CST, CST-S
Registration is available at https://newearth.regfox.com/nei-registration-form and more information about the New Earth Institute Human Sexuality Certificate Program can be found at https://www.swc.edu/applying-to-certificate-specialty-programs/human-sexuality-certificate/
Please feel free to backchannel me with questions!
Note: This program meets the requirements of the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) and is approved for 16 CE credits. These CE credits may be applied toward AASECT certification and renewal of certification. Completion of this program does not ensure or guarantee AASECT certification. For further information please contact info@aasect.org.
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