Dec. 4, 2026
10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. PT (includes three 10-min. breaks)
Price: $475
6 AASECT CEs
Facilitator: Paula Leech, LMFT, CST, CSTS
*You must have completed Sensate Focus Foundations Part 1 in order to attend this course.* This is the second part of a three-part training for sex therapists seeking effective, evidence-based treatment tools. Bundle all three and save $225! Each part is hosted once a year.
EDST’s Sensate Focus series provides tools, strategies, and a framework for engaging with clients who are struggling with sexual pain, erectile dysfunction, orgasm challenges, early ejaculation, low arousal, vaginismus, and other common difficulties that traditional treatment methods often can’t address. Sensate Focus can also be an effective tool for supporting clients healing from sexual trauma and attachment wounding, and needing help letting go of the narratives, expectations, and intellectualization that disconnect them from their bodies — and often also their partners.
This course is open to all sexuality professionals. It is required for those completing the EDST Sex Therapy Certification.
This course meets the requirements of the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) and is approved for 6 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.
This course covers the following AASECT Core Knowledge Areas:
B. Developmental sexuality from a bio-psycho-social perspective across the life course.
C. Socio-cultural, familial factors (e.g., ethnicity, culture, religion, spirituality, socioeconomic status, family values) in relation to sexual values and behaviors.
D. Topics related to sexual orientation and/or gender identity: issues and themes impacting lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, asexual people; heterosexuality; gender identity and expression.
E. Intimacy skills (e.g., social, emotional, sexual), intimate relationships, interpersonal relationships and family dynamics.
F. Diversities in sexual expression and lifestyles including, but not limited to relationship structures (e.g., polyamory, swinging, consensual non-monogamy) and sexually diverse communities (e.g., BDSM, kink).
G. Sexual and reproductive anatomy/physiology.*
H. Health/medical factors that may influence sexuality including, but not limited to, illness, disability, drugs, mental health, conception, pregnancy, childbirth, pregnancy termination, contraception, fertility, HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infection, other infections, sexual trauma, injury and safer sex practices.*
I.Range of sexual functioning and behavior, from optimal to challenging including, but not limited to, common issues such as: desire discrepancy, lack of desire, difficulty achieving or maintaining arousal, sexual pain, penetration problems and difficulty with orgasm.
M; pleasure enhancement skills
N. Learning theory and its application.
P. History of the discipline of sex research, theory, education, counseling and therapy.
This course covers the following AASECT Sex Therapy Training:
A.Theory and methods of sex-related psychotherapy, including several different models.
B. Techniques of sex-related assessment and diagnosis of the “Psychosexual Disorders” described in the current edition of the DSM.
C. Theory and methods of approach to intervention in relationship systems experiencing sex and intimacy problems. (Need 16 hours couples-specific training)
D. Theory and method of approach to medical intervention in the evaluation and treatment of psychosexual disorders. **