Sex Therapy in Integrated Behavioral Health Webinar

Session Description:  This webinar is designed to teach behavioral health providers to integrate discussions of sexual functioning and flourishing into brief, integrated behavioral health settings. The presentation will introduce the importance of attending to sexual well-being in behavioral health treatment and provide concrete strategies for providers to implement in their work with clients. 

Presenter Bio: Gil Perez is an AASECT certified sex therapist and an award-winning tenured faculty Personal Counselor at College of San Mateo. He provides mental services to students, consultation to colleagues, and teaches counseling courses. He oversees the Mental Health Peer Educator program and is the chapter advisor for Active Minds. He served on the California Community Colleges LGBTQ+ Advisory Committee composed of influential community college leaders across the state aimed at establishing equitable support to achieve LGBTQ+ student success. By advocating for the expansion of LGBTQ+ resources, Gil proudly established the Safe Zone Alliance and Trans Community at College of San Mateo. He is currently a PhD student in Human Sexuality at California Institute of Integral Studies and has a private practice where he specializes in sex therapy.

Learning Objectives: After completing this session, participants will be able to:

• Describe the connection between sexual well-being and mental health.
• Outline two approaches to integrating sex therapy into primary care and behavioral health settings.
• Apply two interventions to support sexual well-being in integrated behavioral health settings

Accessibility statement: SF State Department of Counseling’s Equity and Justice – Focused Counselor Training project welcomes persons with disabilities and will provide reasonable accommodations (including ASL interpretation) upon request. If you need reasonable accommodations for this event, please make your request by contacting Julie Chronister jchronis@sfsu.edu by Friday 9/6/2024.

Closed captioning and Spanish language translation will be available during the webinar. Habrá subtítulos e interpretación en español disponibles durante el seminario web.

Continuing Education Information 
 

Real-time attendance at this webinar has been approved for 1.0 hours of continuing education credit via our partnership with Counseling and Psychological Services at the University of California at Berkeley who is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. This  course  has  been  approved  for  1.0   hours of continuing education  credit for LMFT, LPCC and /or LCSW as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. Counseling and Psychological Services, University of California at Berkeley maintains responsibility for the program and its content. Please direct concerns about this course or its content to Stephanie Takeuchi stephanie.takeuchi@berkeley.edu 
 
There is no cost to attend this webinar. Participants desiring CEU credit for attending this webinar will be directed to sign in at the start of the webinar and will be required to provide an evaluation of the session directly following the webinar and verify their participation and attendance. CEU certificates will be emailed to participants who successfully complete both the sign in and evaluation process. If you have trouble with accessing the sign in or evaluation, you can contact Tiffany O’Shaughnessy taosh@sfsu.edu