Product Description

A guidebook for professionals seeking sex-positive approaches for their clients. Britton shows therapists and counselors how to move their practices into sex coaching or integrate sex coaching techniques into their existing therapeutic work. The emphasis is on encouraging sexual self-understanding, growth, and pleasure. Topics covered include: learning the basic models informing sex coaching, developing a sex coaching mindset, and addressing clients' desire for sexual enhancement.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #661271 in Books
• Published on: 2005-04-17
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 272 pages

Review
Dr. Britton's humanity and humor shine through as she provides readers with a clear understanding of this innovative self-improvement tool. -- Janice M. Epp, Ph.D., Clinical Sexologist, Dean of Curriculum Development, The Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, San Francisco

There is a great deal of good information in this volume… [a] pragmatic and unique book. -- Stephanie Buehler, PHD, Contemporary Sexuality

About the Author
Patti Britton lives in Los Angeles.

Customer Reviews

Now I'm a Sex and Intimacy Coach
This book was so wonderful in helping me define my work as a sex and intimacy coach. It took a very broad brush approach and probably a book could have been written on each of her chapters but it was also wonderful to have so much information and so many references in one easy place. I'm sure I'll return to it many times throughout my work.

Good book!
Patti Britton's "The Art of Sex Coaching: Expanding Your Practice", invites coaches and clinicians alike to recognize the importance of discussing the sexual concerns and experiences of client's in an open, supportive and non-judgmental manner. Dr. Britton provides detailed descriptions, and causes, of common sexual complaints presented by both single and coupled men and women, while offering sound interventions to remedy these complaints based on her MEBES (Mind, Emotion, Body, Energy and Spirit) coaching model. It was also refreshing to see that Dr. Britton included a chapter that specifically addresses the sexual concerns of gay, lesbian, bisexual and trangendered individuals and couples.

The Art of Sex Coaching also draws from the work of several other sexuality expects such as Betty Dodson, and Joseph Kramer among others, and invites the reader to develop a framework for intervention that best fits their own style of working with people seeking assistance in addressing sexual concerns. Britton also draws limits between what her model can and cannot do, recommending that those who practice coaching be cognizant of the distinction between coaching related to sex and sexuality, and sex therapy.

For clinicians who do not normally work with issues of sex and sexuality, it's important to understand that some of the suggestions provided in "The Art of Sex Coaching", may raise some anxiety, such as when Britton discuses taking a field trip with a client to a sex shop, or when she is discussing "hands on" vs "hands off" models of sex coaching. However, the information provided in Britton's work is easily adaptable to any out patient therapy setting and within the ethical framework adhered to by the clinician. Besides - if one only reads materials that are comfortable, one never has the opportunity to use discomfort to grow. Overall "The Art of Sex Coaching: Expanding Your Practice"- is packed with information and well worth the read!