By Patti Britton
The Art of Sex Coaching: Expanding Your Practice
This is the essential resource for professionals seeking sex-positive approaches for their clients. Britton shows therapists and counselors how to move their practices fully into sex coaching or simply integrate sex coaching techniques for encouraging sexual self-understanding, growth, and pleasure into their existing therapeutic work. Based in the empirical science of sexology and adapted for practitioners looking to enrich their work and enlarge their client base, The Art of Sex Coaching covers what professionals need to know in order to participate in this exciting new field of coaching.
Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Part I: The Broad Stroke of Sex Coaching: The Influences of Coaching on Sex Coaching
• Sex Therapy Models That Inform Sex Coaching
• Part 2: Becoming a Sex Coach Preparing Yourself: The Personal
• Preparing Yourself: The Professional
• Toward a Successful Sex Coaching Practice
• Part 3: Delivery of the Service Assessment Criteria for Clients and Sex Coaching Methods
• Men – Common Sexual Concerns and Resolutions
• Women – Common Sexual Concerns and Resolutions
• Couples – Common Sexual Concerns and Resolutions
• GLBT Clients – Concerns and Resolutions
• Pregnancy and Special Medical/Clinical Issues – Concerns and Resolutions
• Non-Vanilla Sex – Concerns and Resolutions
• Epilogue
• Appendices
• Guided Imagery Activity Guidelines for Clients
• Intake/Assessment Forms
• Recommended Reading and Resources
“Initially I called my work sexual health and fitness training instead of sex coaching. Within a year I realized the influence that coaching had on my style of working with clients who came in with sexual issues or concerns and sex coaching became my shingle.”
PATTI BRITTON, PH.D., is a clinical sexologist and is certified by The American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists as a sexuality educator. She is also the author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Sensual Massage.
“The cutting edge of where most so-called sex therapy needs to go.” – Lou Paget, AASECT Certified Sex Educator and Best-Selling Author How To Be A Great Lover and The Great Lover Playbook
“This book is a major contribution to the field of sexology. The Art of Sex Coaching is a cutting edge guideline to a new way of treating clients that will enrich and expand any professional’s skills and practice. Dr. Patti Britton’s honest descriptions, instructions, and cases are impressive. Her exceptional capacity to share her life work as a sexologist shows why she is both respected and well-liked by her peers and the public.” – Judy Kuriansky, Ph.D., clinical psychologist, sex therapist, journalist, and author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Tantric Sex
“Groundbreaking and courageous! This book will help make sex coaching a household term. A valuable resource for life coaches and clinicians alike.” – Dennis P. Sugrue, Ph.D., Past President of the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT), Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at University of Michigan Medical School, and co-author of Sex Matters for Women
“The Art of Sex Coaching is fabulous! So clear and practical and full of great examples–great for clients as well as professionals.” – Gina Ogden, Ph.D., sex therapist and author of Women Who Love Sex: An Inquiry into the Expanding Spirit of Women’s Erotic Experience
“Dr. Patti Britton virtually invented sex coaching. This book . . . will become the ultimate resource for therapists, clinicians, psychologists, social workers, doctors….anyone dealing with sexuality.” – Susan Crain Bakos, sex journalist and author of several books including the forthcoming Makeover Your Sexlife – Tonight
“Dr. Britton’s book is written with clarity, simplicity and compassion. A book that professionals, academics and the lay person will find equally accessible and beneficial.” – Candida Royalle, erotic film director, public speaker and author ofHow to Tell a Naked Man What to Do
“I’m sure you know what a needed publication this is and how helpful it can be to those who do this work. I especially appreciated your candid case studies. There’s useful information and suggestions for people like me, who from a human sexuality faculty perspective are dealing with a myriad of students’ sexuality-related concerns and issues. Your reference to a list of well-researched referrals was good advice. The recommendations and strategies are noteworthy and helpful for eliciting conversation and providing support to individual students. Thank you for writing this book!” – Barbara Sayad, M.P.H., Ph.D.(c), faculty, California State University Monterey Bay; co-author ofHuman Sexuality: Diversity in Contemporary America
“I’m blown away by this book. It’s so complete and fabulous and inspirational. I hope every therapist in this puritanical society gets a copy.” – Betty Dodson, Ph.D., sex educator, author of Sex For One and Orgasms for Two
“On one hand, The Art of Sex Coaching is an invaluable book for any mental health professional. Yet it is so well written and accessible, it could be of great use to any one interested in the treatment and improvement of one’s sexuality. I highly recommend this book.” – Bob Berkowitz, Ph.D., author, What Men Won’t Tell You But Women Need To Know
