January 18-19, 2020
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TRANS-INCLUSIVE, TRAUMA-INFORMED, KINK-AWARE SEXUALITY COUNSELING
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Instructors: Heather Edwards, PT, AASECT Certified Sexuality Counselor, and Sexuality Educator; and Tuesday Feral, LPCA, NCC, Tranzmission Support Programs Director
When: January 18-19, 2020
Who: This course is for medical providers and mental health professionals who work with clients around sexual health issues and want to improve the counsel they can offer their clients/patients.
Where: Comprehensive Therapy Services, 5677 Oberlin Drive, Suite 106, San Diego, CA 92121
About: This course will cover some fun and challenging content. There will be many opportunities for activities for your personal learning and ways to take some challenging sexual issues that your patients might come to you with and learn how to break them into pieces and help them through their process. Topics covered will be:
- Kink and BDSM awareness and understanding
- LGBT considerations
- Transgender and nonbinary genital talk and education
- Trauma awareness training for you to use with patients
- Skills to teach patients to use with their partners for communication during sex
- Counseling on helping patients with self-pleasure/education/desensitization activities
- Counseling on partner engagement
- Use of power dynamics to empower sexual activity when dysfunction is present
- Moving away from cis-het normativity with our language and education
- Sexual anatomy and arousal
- Sexual dysfunction will be covered, but this course will NOT be focused on medical management with pathophysiology
*This course will NOT be teaching manual skills but will be heavily engaging on how to interact with your patients on these topics.
Registration will be up soon!
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Heather Edwards, PT, Sex Counselor & Educator(she/her or they/them)
Heather Edwards, PT, MPT has been a pelvic physical therapist for 15 years in western North Carolina. She is a University of Michigan trained Sexuality Counselor and Educator. She founded Vino & Vulvas in 2015 and it quickly became her favorite thing to do. She teaches community classes such as “Field Guide to Your Crotch” and “How to Talk to Your Doctor about Your Nonbinary Crotch” for transgender and nonbinary folx. Heather created the Transgender Pelvic Health Survey (currently in progress) and teamed up with Nova Southeastern University and the Pelvic Health Research Initiative for its implementation and data analysis. In 2016, she presented at the Southeastern Transgender Health Summit on the topic of pelvic PT considerations for the surgical trans patient. She presented at the 2018 AASECT conference on the topic of BDSM/Kink and Pelvic Health.
Despite all the clinical stuff, Heather considers herself an artist… and if truth be told, she’d love to just draw fantastical crotch doodles and outside-the-box anatomy illustrations all day. This unusual hobby led to the creation of her first self-published book, Important Parts: A Coloring Book for the Crotch Enthusiast. She’s in the process of the second one in the series.
Mx. Tuesday V. Feral (they/them)
Tuesday is an artist, mental health professional, and educator and Support Programs Director for Tranzmission, an Asheville-based organization that does education, advocacy, and support for the transgender and nonbinary community in western North Carolina and beyond. They have worked with Tranzmission for the last ten years. Tuesday is passionate about building resilient networks of support within our extended community. To that end, they oversee the Asheville Transformers peer support and social group and the Youth and Family Program. Tuesday has trained on a national, state and local level with Tranzmission. Tuesday is also a frequent, and crowd-favorite panelist on Vino & Vulvas for their ability to present and package difficult concepts in such a tangible way that can easily be taken directly to heart.
Heather and Tuesday are so excited to bring this course to you!
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This course is for any licensed medical providers (PT, OT, MD, NP, PA, RN, LPN, Doulas, Midwives, etc) or mental health professionals who would like to enhance their skills in helping clients through sexual challenges in a way that is trauma informed and not heterocentric or cis-normative.
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FAQs
Refunds are honored up to 30 days before the course and may be subject to a $75 administrative fee. Within 30 days before the course, refunds will not be provided.
If you’re unable to attend the course you purchased, you can also transfer to the same course offered later in the year (if available) for a $25 fee. Course transfers need to be done at the time of request and must be directly into a course that already exists (i.e. we can’t just keep it out there waiting for another course that might be scheduled next year). Transfers must happen within 1 year of the dates of the course that participant is transferring out of.
There is a $50 transfer fee to transfer to a different course (and price variations between the two courses may need to be addressed). Course transfers need to be done at the time of request and must be directly into a course that already exists (i.e. we can’t just keep it out there waiting for another course that might be scheduled next year). Transfers must happen within 1 year of the dates of the course that participant is transferring out of.
If the course does not reach a minimum number of students up to 30 days before the course, the course may be canceled, and a full refund will be provided.
What are the course hours?
Most Pelvic Guru Academy courses last two full days, typically from 8 am to 5 pm. Please review the course registration hours for specific hours for the course you are taking.
Will I get CEUs or a certificate?
Pelvic Guru Academy applies for PT/PTA CEU credits for each course we host in the state where the course is taking place. We will make a note at the top of the course registration page once CEUs have been approved for each course. If you are coming from another state, please check with your state on reciprocity for CEUs.
What if I have to leave class early, will I still get CEUs?
In order to get full CEU credit for the course, you will need to attend all hours of the course for each day. Please plan your travel arrangements accordingly. Having stated that, we are aware that sometimes there are circumstances in which you have to leave a little early on the last day of the course. Please let the instructor know during the course and put your sign out time on our forms. We may need to adjust education credits and will do this on a case by case basis.
Will there be a printed course manual or workbook?
Pelvic Guru does not print workbooks or course manuals for our in-person courses. All attendees will receive slides and any additional materials from the instructor prior to the course. If desired, attendees can print these and bring along to class or bring a laptop, tablet, or mobile device to follow along and take notes.
Is it okay if I use a breast pump during class?
Yes. We cannot guarantee a private room for use of a breast pump, but we can assure you that use of your breast pump is supported at any time during a Pelvic Guru course
If you have additional questions, please contact courses@pelvicguru.comfor more information.
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We need locations that meet the following requirements:
- Within 30 minutes of a major airport
- Have hotels close by
- Be able to host 30-40 people
- Have about 15 treatment tables available for pelvic courses.
- Have space for a yoga class of 30 people for Low Pressure Fitness
- Have access to a CrossFit box that wants to host for Female Athlete
Meet these requirements? Fill out the form HERE. Let us know what courses you’d like to host!