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$90Multiplicities of Desire: Working with the Intersection of Bisexuality and Polyamory
Stephanie M. Sullivan, M.S., LLMFT
3 CEs
Homestudy
Bisexuality can have multiple meanings, but will be defined here as the potential to be attracted to people of more than one sex or gender, either romantically, sexually, or both. Therapists who are working with a client who is bisexual in the polyamorous community may have to consider how their client’s bisexuality impacts them therapeutically.
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$120Healing Power of Open Relationships
Kathy Slaughter, LCSW
4 CEs
Homestudy
Open relationships offer unique and perhaps unexpected protective factors and opportunities to heal from trauma. Working with trauma survivors who engage in open relationships challenges our best ideas about healthy relationships. Becoming a trauma-informed, consensual nonmonogamy affirmative therapist requires understanding how trauma impacts neural development, self-regulation, attachment styles, and interpersonal relationship skills.
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$90Polyamorous Clients in Therapy: What You Didn’t Know You Needed to Know
Stephanie M. Sullivan, M.S., LLMFT
3 CEs
Homestudy
Consensual non-monogamy is a relationship style in which all individuals within the relationship agree to not being monogamous, and all individuals involved in the relationship are aware that it is not a monogamous relationship. Polyamory is a type of consensual non-monogamy in which people are able to be in committed, long term, intimate relationships with more than one person.
