“This isn’t about feel-good stories. It’s about real change that we can build together, by bringing diverse voices across the constellation.” Melissa Guida-Richards
Adoptees often report that therapy can feel invalidating when clinicians are unaware of the complexities of adoption. Too often, therapists unintentionally minimize loss, reinforce harmful narratives, or lack the training to address adoption’s lifelong impact. This one-hour CE workshop centers adult adoptee voices to highlight what they most wish therapists understood. Participants will learn the essential knowledge every clinician should have when working with adoptees, including identity, attachment, grief, and cultural considerations. Grounded in trauma-informed and culturally competent frameworks, this training provides practical strategies to avoid common missteps and create safer, more affirming spaces for adoptee clients.
About the Presenter:
Joanne Bagshaw, PhD, LCPC, is a domestic same-race adoptee from the Baby Scoop Era. She is an AASECT-certified sex therapist and the founder of Joanne Bagshaw & Associates, a group practice focused on sex and relationship therapy in Maryland. Joanne is a recently retired award-winning professor of psychology and women’s studies at Montgomery College. She is also an LGPC board-approved supervisor in Maryland and an AASECT supervisor in training. Joanne is the author of "The Feminist Handbook: Practical Tools to Resist Sexism and Dismantle the Patriarchy“ and writes the popular feminist blog, “The Third Wave,” for Psychology Today.
Flourish Media & Education is the education affiliate of Joanne Bagshaw & Associates.
Objectives:
Participants will be able to identify at least three core issues commonly experienced by adult adoptees (e.g., identity development, ambiguous loss, rejection).
Participants will be able to apply at least two adoption-competent, trauma-informed strategies to foster validation, safety, and therapeutic trust with adoptee clients.
CEU Information
This program meets the requirements of the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT) and is approved for 1 CE credits and is considered synchronous learning if in attendance during the live webinar. These CE credits may be applied toward AASECT certification and renewal of certification through Flourish Media & Education (# 21-716-FME). Completion of this program does not ensure or guarantee AASECT Certification. For further information please contact ce@aasect.org.
This training is eligible for 1 CE hour from the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC). Flourish Media & Education has been approved by NBCC as a Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7774. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Flourish Media & Education is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.
NBCC: 1 Contact Hour (Human Growth & Development; Social & Cultural Foundations)
AASECT: 1 CE Credit Core Knowledge Areas, C (Sociocultural & Familal Factors) & E (Intimacy Skills)
A recording of the workshop will be provided to participants; however, CEUs are provided for LIVE ONLINE or in-person programming only.
FEE: $30
Please join Atar Stav, LCPC, NCC, who will share her expertise in blending trauma therapy with sex and couples counseling. You’ll learn practical tools, somatic techniques, and relational frameworks to address intimacy challenges rooted in trauma, helping clients reconnect with themselves and their partners. Participants will also learn about common reactions trauma survivors may have to sexual intimacy in couples, as well as communication tools each partner can use to foster safety and trust in their relationship. Whether you work primarily with couples, individuals, or trauma survivors, this training will give you the skills to integrate healing and intimacy work in a way that’s safe, effective, and transformative.
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
Identify at least three ways trauma can influence sexual functioning, desire, and relational dynamics within couples.
Apply two or more trauma-informed, body-based interventions to help clients safely explore intimacy and enhance emotional and physical connection.
Atar Stav, LCPC, NCC (she/her) is a trauma-informed sex and relationship therapist practicing at Joanne Bagshaw & Associates. She holds an MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Johns Hopkins University and an MA in Human Rights & Humanitarian Action from Sciences Po, Paris School of International Affairs. Atar has extensive experience working with refugees, and her clinical training integrates modalities including sensorimotor psychotherapy, sex therapy, somatic attachment, Imago therapy, DBT, trauma‑focused CBT, narrative therapy, and trauma stabilization technique. Atar is a Nationally Certified Counselor through the NBCC and an approved LGPC supervisor in Maryland.
This program meets the requirements of the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT) and is approved for 2 CE credits and is considered synchronous learning if in attendance during the live webinar. These CE credits may be applied toward AASECT certification and renewal of certification through Flourish Media & Education (# 21-716-FME). Completion of this program does not ensure or guarantee AASECT Certification. For further information please contact ce@aasect.org.
This training is eligible for 2 CE hours from the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC). Flourish Media & Education has been approved by NBCC as a Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7774. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Flourish Media & Education is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.
A recording of the workshop will be provided to participants; however, CEUs are provided for LIVE ONLINE or in person programming only.
If you need special accommodations or have questions, please contact us.
Flourish Media & Education is the education affiliate of Joanne Bagshaw & Associates. Contact information: Joanne Bagshaw, 316 Main Street, Suite 200. Gaithersburg, MD 20874. 301.288.3723. joanne@joannebagshaw.com
Join us for a free virtual workshop on federal employee rights and protections, led by Dave Scher, a founding member of Hoyer Law Group. Operating from the firm's Washington, D.C. office, Dave brings extensive expertise in employment law and whistleblower/False Claims Act litigation. This workshop is organized in response to recent legislative changes under President Trump's administration, including the reinstatement of Schedule F, which reclassifies thousands of federal workers as "at-will" employees, and the establishment of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), aimed at reducing government costs through significant cuts. Don't miss this opportunity to have your questions answered by a seasoned advocate dedicated to protecting federal employees' rights.
Low desire is the most prevalent sexual dysfunction among women, and the most common reason women pursue sex therapy. Low desire cases are generally complex and require a systemic lens. This interactive program will focus on dismantling the heteronormative bias that underlies the high rates of diagnosed low desire among women. Effective interventions for individual and couples therapy will be covered.
Time will be allotted during the workshop for a case consultation. If you would like to present a case during the workshop for consultation, please fill out this form.
After attending this training, participants will be able to:
1. Define three different types of desire
2. Identify at least three variables that impact desire.
3. Identify at least two interventions that treat low desire.
This program meets the requirements of the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT) and is approved for 2 CE credits and is considered synchronous learning if in attendance to the live webinar. These CE credits may be applied toward AASECT certification and renewal of certification through Flourish Media & Education.. Completion of this program does not ensure or guarantee AASECT Certification. For further information please contact ce@aasect.org.
About the Presenter:
Joanne Bagshaw, Ph.D., LCPC is an award-winning professor of psychology and women’s studies at Montgomery College. She is an AASECT-certified sex therapist and the founder of Joanne Bagshaw & Associates, a group practice focused on sex and relationship therapy in Maryland. She is also an LGPC board-approved supervisor in Maryland. Joanne is the author of "The Feminist Handbook: Practical Tools to Resist Sexism and Dismantle the Patriarchy“ and writes the popular feminist blog, “The Third Wave,” for Psychology Today.
Flourish Media & Education is the education affiliate of Joanne Bagshaw & Associates.
Gaslighting is a cultural norm that we have have been conditioned not to notice.
Although we tend to associate gaslighting with narcissists in the context of an abusive relationship, gaslighting can show up in any relationship where there is a power differential. And because gaslighting is such an insidious part of our culture, sometimes the people doing the gaslighting aren’t even aware of it themselves.
In the context of sex and relationship therapy, gaslighting can appear when one partner manipulates another’s sexual reality. For instance, gaslighting can occur during infidelity, relationship conflicts, and reality distorting blame as to who in the relationship has a sexual dysfunction.
After completion of this program, participants will:
Understand how structural inequalities make gaslighting possible
Apply two interventions for individual and couples therapy
This program meets the requirements of the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT) and is approved for 1 CE credit and is considered synchronous learning if in attendance to the live webinar. These CE credits may be applied toward AASECT certification and renewal of certification through Flourish Media & Education. Completion of this program does not ensure or guarantee AASECT Certification. For further information please contact ce@aasect.org.
About the Presenter:
Joanne Bagshaw, PhD, LCPC is an award-winning professor of psychology and women’s studies at Montgomery College. She is an AASECT-certified sex therapist and the founder of Joanne Bagshaw & Associates, a group practice focused on sex and relationship therapy in Maryland. She is also an LGPC board approved supervisor in Maryland. Joanne is the author of "The Feminist Handbook: Practical Tools to Resist Sexism and Dismantle the Patriarchy“ and writes the popular feminist blog, “The Third Wave,” for Psychology Today.
Flourish Media & Education is the education affiliate of Joanne Bagshaw & Associates.
Registration is closed.
The event is scheduled for EDT.
Love and acceptance is the key to queer teens well-being. Join us for a three part psychoeducational workshop for parents and caregivers of queer and nonbinary youth. Address your fears, build community, and learn how to support, empower, and affirm your LGBTQAI+ youth.
Time: 7:15-8:30 p.m.
Location: Virtual
Cost: $295 for series
Facilitators: Azaria Davis, LMSW & Atar Stav, LGPC
*This workshop is open to all genders, is trauma informed, and LGBTQ+ affirming. Option to create an ongoing therapy if there is enough interest.
Are you exhausted and feeling burnt out from taking responsibility for other people in you life, to the point that you neglect your own needs? Have you forgotten how to to receive, or maybe you’re not sure what your needs are, and how to ask for them? This four part workshop is for folks who are over-givers: people who tend to over caretake, or prioritize the needs of others in relationship and tend to lose their sense of self, and often don’t get their own needs met. This workshop is designed to help you understand how you learned to over-give and how you can unlearn this pattern and create balance with boundaries, prioritizing your own needs, and holding on to your identity in relationships.
Time: 7:00-8:15 p.m.
Location: Virtual
Cost: $295 for series
Facilitators: Azaria Davis, LMSW & Atar Stav, LGPC
*This is a psychoeducational workshop and is not psychotherapy. This workshop is open to all genders, is trauma informed, and LGBTQ+ affirming. Option to create an ongoing therapy group if there is enough interest.
Join me (via Zoom) and the Integrative Sex Therapy Institute for a day of training on Intersectionality and Sexism in Relationships:
10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m
Social inequities contribute to sexual dysfunction and create barriers for oppressed and minoritized groups to access pleasure. Sex therapists are in a unique position to address the effects of systemic oppression by using an intersectional analysis to help create practices that build resilience and resistance to oppression and help the communities we serve access and experience sexual pleasure.
2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m
Outdated gender roles have put women, and particularly women who are mothers, under extraordinary stress during the pandemic. The unequal distribution of labor in the home is magnified during the pandemic and the mass exodus of women forced to leave the workforce is causing immediate economic and psychological stress and deepening inequities. In this workshop, we will take a deep dive in understanding how we got here, and what we, as sex therapists can do about it.
Join me and The Integrative Sex Therapy Institute in this training for therapists-
Why is low desire common for women? Well it depends a lot on how you view desire, but here are some reasons:
* Women have been conditioned to tune out the sensations in our bodies so we don’t feel desire even when we have it
* Society gives us constant confusing messages about our bodies and our sexuality so we often find sex stressful
* No one tells us that our sexual response cycle is different than men’s until we start looking for answers
* Women’s desire in long term relationships tends to go down over time
* Women’s desire is strongly influenced by external factors, so job stress, relationship conflict, political stressors can all affect our experience of desire.
Fortunately, you don’t have to figure out all of this stuff for yourself. I'm giving a workshop that teaches women how to reignite their sexual desire.
I’m an AASECT certified sex therapist with decades of clinical experience, and I’ve compiled the best tools and strategies available to provide you with the knowledge and understanding you need to rekindle your sexual spark:
● Tap into the sexual desire you already have.
● Understand your desire and arousal patterns
● Own your orgasm, by knowing what you want and how to ask for it.
● Get out of your head during sex and be present in the moment.
● Stop letting body image issues get in your way of your pleasure
This virtual workshop is held via Zoom, webinar style, so participants videos won't be visible.
Participants who register before 10/9/20 will receive a Google form to able to ask questions anonymously prior to the event. Answers will be included in event programming.
Participants will receive a recording, in case you miss the live event, and a workbook to personalize and deepen your learning.
Note that this workshop is tailored for cis-gender women of any sexual orientation.
Register on Eventbrite.
If you have (or had) a narcissist or other manipulative person in your life, and you want to make sure that you’ve never manipulated again, sign up for my webinar.
In this workshop you will:
Learn the difference between gaslighting and lying
Understand who gaslights and why
Identify the role that gender plays in gaslighting dynamics
Understand how gaslighting is built into our culture
Understand how structural power is used to embolden gaslighters
Recognize DARVO, a common way gaslighters defend themselves by turning up the gas
Learn the five tools necessary for you to turn off the gas.
This workshop will help you build resilience and power for your future because you’ll know exactly what you need to do when someone tries to manipulate you.
Plus, you’ll get a nice workbook and a recording of the event. :)
$97.
Experience challenging training and improve your practice- Join ISTI Online June 10-12, 2020
Please join me, Jane Fleishman, Shadeen Francis & Nan Wise as we present 3 days of training focused on the experiences of sexism, exploitation, and trauma and the impact on women and couples. Experience challenging and rewarding training with experts and instructors working in the field of sexuality counseling and couples therapy. Courses include case consultations.
Recent feminist movements such as #MeToo and #TimesUp have called out sexism. They have empowered women to become more aware and also raise more questions: How do we find common ground in the new world we are building? How do we keep the momentum going with individual power, structural power and the power of movements? How do we handle a real situation at work, which could affect our livelihoods?
Join psychotherapist and professor Joanne Bagshaw, author of The Feminist Handbook, in a lively, engaging dialogue meant to educate, prompt inner reflection and inspire. Walk away with a plan to help change society for yourself, your community and future generations.
From reproductive rights and the wage gap to #MeToo and #TimesUp—gender inequality permeates nearly every aspect of our culture. According to award-winning psychology professor Joanne Bagshaw, the message that our society sends to women and girls is clear: you’re not enough. She offers tools for women everywhere to navigate institutionalized sexist power structures, attitudes, and events that are outside of our control. With advice from her book The Feminist Handbook: Practical Tools to Resist Sexism and Dismantle the Patriarchy, Bagshaw helps us confront negative messages that have been deeply internalized by our society, combat the effects of gender and race discrimination, and create lasting change through activism and community. Join Bagshaw as she untangles the role that sexism and discrimination plays in our lives, our mental health, and our overall sense of well-being.
Joanne L. Bagshaw, PhD, is an award-winning professor of psychology and women’s studies at Montgomery College. She is also an ASSECT-certified sex therapist with a private practice in Maryland, where she lives with her husband and daughter. Joanne writes the popular feminist blog, The Third Wave for Psychology Today.
Power, privilege, and oppression are communicated through our bodies. This day-long workshop is designed to give Core Energetics practitioners the opportunity to explore how white privilege is embodied, informed by white supremacy, and communicated through the body. We will also explore how to use awareness and movement to communicate compassion, respect, and humility.
The following themes and objectives will be explored through discussion, journaling, and movement:
Understand the role of implicit bias in how privilege is embodied
Learn how white people communicate superiority and maintain privilege through movement and posture
Learn typical patterns of white ways of moving, and what they communicate
Understand how intersections of white racial identity, gender, and sexual orientation add complexity and affect embodied privilege
Identify ways white people can become more self-aware and interrupt oppressive cycles
This workshop is for Core Energetics alumni who identify as having white privilege, and who are willing to engage in work that is anti-racist and anti-oppression. Please register for this workshop through The Institute of Core Energetics.
Joanne Bagshaw, PhD, LCPC, is an award-winning professor of psychology and women's studies at Montgomery College. She is an AASECT certified sex therapist, with a private practice in Maryland. Joanne writes the popular feminist blog, The Third Wave for Psychology Today, and is the author of “The Feminist Handbook, Practical Tools to Resist Sexism and Dismantle the Patriarchy.”
Join us as we toast to the much anticipated book launch of The Feminist Handbook: Practical Tools to Resist Sexism and Dismantle the Patriarchy by Joanne Bagshaw, Ph.D., award-winning professor of psychology and women’s studies, certified sex therapist, and writer of the popular feminist blog The Third Wave for Psychology Today.
The energizing evening will feature a book reading and live interview of Dr. Bagshaw hosted by an exciting special guest, a Q & A and fun interactive bits, tasty hors d'oeuvres and a cash bar. The event opens to the public at 7:00 pm (VIP Access starts at 6:00 pm). General Admission and VIP tickets will also be available at the door.
With this intersectional handbook, you’ll discover practical, everyday tips and tools to help you resist sexism, smash the patriarchy, and create a better world for yourself and future generations.
We look forward to celebrating , learning, and empowering you on Thursday, November 14th at Kintsugi Cafe in Eaton Hotel!
This workshop will present an overview of a sexual health model as a guiding philosophy in treating sexual issues in a therapy setting.
