Please join Atar Stav, LCPC, NCC, who will share her expertise in blending trauma therapy with sex and couples counseling. Through an LGBTQ+ and neurodivergent-affirming lens, we’ll examine safety, consent, play, and pleasure as essential foundations for healing. Participants will learn practical tools to help clients rebuild embodied safety, rediscover desire, and explore sexual play and kink as pathways to empowerment and relational growth.
Ideal for: sex therapists, mental-health professionals, and pelvic floor therapists, seeking integrative, trauma-informed approaches to help their clients experience intimacy and pleasure.
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:
Identify neurodivergent-affirming interventions that support safety and relational connection.
Apply at least three embodiment-based and play-oriented techniques for fostering sexual healing, exploration, and pleasure enhancement in trauma-informed clinical practice.
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.
CEU Information
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, NBCC CEUs are provided for LIVE ONLINE or in person programming only.
AASECT Core Knowledge Areas: A, Ethics and Relationships & C, Psychosocial development, sexuality, and the role of sexuality throughout the life cycle
NBCC Content Area: Counseling Theory/Practice and the Helping Relationship & Human Growth and Development
Cost & Registration
$60
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