• Get Martha’s scripts for confidently opening the conversation about sex
• Ask the right questions to cut through the complicated emotional, relational, spiritual, and physiological components and move forward with a prioritized treatment plan
• Address all your concerns about staying within scope of practice and guiding discussions about sex in ethical, appropriate ways
• Goal-setting intervention

• Learn a key tool for managing your discomfort and staying focused on the essential aspects of each case 
• Understand the difference between unhealthy sexual behavior and diverse sexual practices
• Protect your clients by identifying the signs of subtle consent violations

• Follow up effectively on the issues revealed in your initial assessment
• Discover the underlying causes of low or inhibited desire, and gain a new way of conceptualizing desire issues 
• Catch serious issues that often go unaddressed – like sex pain – and make effective referrals to get your clients the help they need

• Update your knowledge of sexual anatomy for pleasure. Unless you’re either a sex geek or an anatomy geek, there may be some surprises here!
• Gain a deep understanding of sexual function, so you can more effectively work with sexual dysfunction
• Discover how sexual function changes with age, stage, and circumstance, so you can help your clients build healthy sexual relationships that stay strong throughout a lifetime
• Bonus: Free video download -- Martha teaches anatomy for reproduction, sexual function, and pleasure. Share it with your clients in session, so you don’t have to memorize it

• Catch potentially dangerous issues before they cause harm, and know how and when to make referrals for collaborative care. (No exaggeration: The information in this module has the potential to save your client’s life.)
• Learn when and how to conduct an in-depth assessment for deeply-rooted sex issues
• Approach tough arousal and orgasm issues from multiple angles
• Bonus video: Martha role-plays her sex pain assessment process

• Discover a range of medical, pharmacological, non-pharmacological, psychosexual, and relational treatments for every sexual dysfunction diagnosis in the DSM (and more!)
• Take your understanding of sexual dysfunction to the next level and learn to address root causes, rather than simply alleviating symptoms
• Find out which commonly-recommended treatments are effective, and which to avoid

• Understand how our cultural norms about sex actually create sexual dysfunction—and what to do about it
• Discover a key intervention to help your clients experience healthy and fulfilling intimacy, even through the bodily changes that come with aging
• Learn how to present self-pleasure as a therapeutic intervention, understand the pros and cons, and know how to get the benefits without the drawbacks

• Learn how multiple body systems work together to create healthy sexual function
• Discover three “magic bullets” for improving sexual function
• Gain powerful strategies for understanding, preventing, and treating sexual dysfunction

• Tackle even the toughest desire discrepancy with finesse
• Gain confidence working with a wide range of presentations of desire and other sexual issues
• Disarm power struggles and negative feedback loop, and replace it with collaboration and positive reinforcement

A lot of courses are designed to give you an overview of common sex issues. What sets this course apart is that it isn’t meant to just hand you information—it’s designed to give you the skills to use that information in the very next session. I want you to begin building confidence by experiencing success right from the start, so every module contains practical, effective tools that you can put to work right away.

Absolutely! You can bring me your most pressing questions and challenging cases during our live meetings, and I’ll give you my guidance and advice personally. Or you can post your questions and cases on our secure online discussion board to get feedback from me, my crack team of TAs, and your colleagues. I recognize you are taking a leap into new territory, and as you begin to apply the material in your own practice, my team and I are here to help. We care a lot about your success and will support you along the way.

Not at all. My course will provide you with all the information you need to feel confident moving forward. You just provide the desire to have frank conversations about sex in the service of being effective working with related issues. And if you like to have lots of support, easy access to consultation, and a group of colleagues learning right beside you as you try new things, this course is definitely for you.

Many experienced sex therapists have taken my course, and they’ve told me that they got a lot out of it, including a fresh approach to working with sex issues and comprehensive understanding of relational dynamics. So if you want to brush up, learn fresh ways to conceptualize cases, and pick up some new tools for working with complex and overlapping issues, this course has plenty to offer. If you have doubts, please send my team an email and we can discuss your particular circumstances and goals in more detail. I'm committed to delivering value, and to that end, I'm happy to help you figure out if this course is a good fit for you.

The core material takes about two hours per week to digest, but the way you use it is totally up to you. My goal is to serve you, not to give you homework. I’m confident that you’ll get a lot of value out of the course, whether you read all the material in order or skip around looking for the information you need to help your clients in the moment. And if you don’t get through everything in the 15 weeks that the course runs, don’t worry—you can download and keep all the materials, forever.

Yes! ATSIP is approved for 30 CEs  by AASECT (American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists)*

To get CEs, you will be required to pass a learning assessment and complete a course evaluation.

Your professional organization may accept CEs from AASECT; check their website to find out. If they do not, you can apply to have your CEs considered. We will provide you with a certificate of completion, a detailed syllabus, and a list of learning objectives to support your request. However, we cannot guarantee or predict the outcome.

*This program meets the requirements of the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) and is approved for 30 CE credits. These CE credits may be applied toward AASECT certification and renewal of certification.

No. Never. I will not ask personal questions, and I do not expect you to disclose anything personal. If you have a question about anything at all regarding sex, sexuality, or working with sex issues in therapy, I’m happy to answer. I don’t need to know if you are asking on your own behalf or a client’s. However, if you are interested in discussing your own personal blocks and challenges, this course provides a warm and supportive environment for you to do just that.

Yes. I have a number of reduced-fee scholarships available. I award these scholarships to highly motivated or otherwise extraordinary students who have demonstrated need, and who plan to “pay it forward” by using the information in the course to serve their communities and the world. If you think this describes you, see the application criteria here.

Yes. Because we're recently updated and expanded the course, you can take it for a second time. Please email [email protected] for more information.

Also, if you want to dive more deeply into the topics covered by ATSIP, I recommend that instead you enroll in my deep-dive consulting group, which is only open to ATSIP graduates. 

If you enroll in the deep-dive consulting group, in addition to live consultation and feedback on all your toughest cases, you'll get full access to the ATSIP course site. It's a much better value than just retaking the course. For more information, get in touch with my assistants, Amelia and Kristy, at [email protected].