CC25 Keynote 03 - Desire’s Landscape: Mapping Complexity in Sexual Relationships - Martha Kauppi, MS, LMFT
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- Keynotes
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- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2025
- Faculty:
- Martha Kauppi, MS MFT
- Duration:
- 1:01:27
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- May 03, 2025
- License:
- Never Expires.
Description
This keynote session will delve into the complex world of sexual desire, exploring why discrepant desire is such a challenging issue for clients and therapists alike, and providing a comprehensive systemic framework for understanding and addressing it. Attendees will be offered a practical and innovative tool for parsing complex and interconnected factors, providing a deeper understanding that will reshape your approach to one of the most pervasive and complicated relational sex issues.
- Participants will be able to identify and explain the multifactorial components influencing sexual desire, including sexual, physical, emotional, relational, cultural, and sociopolitical factors
- Participants will be able to apply the presented rubric/Venn diagram tool to assess and categorize the various factors contributing to desire discrepancy in clinical cases
- Participants will be able to describe the importance of trauma history, systems of power and privilege, and other contextual elements to both the personal experience of desire, as well as dynamics between partners
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Martha Kauppi, MS MFT Related Seminars and Products
Martha Kauppi believes that relationships (with yourself, your family, your partner, your culture, your community) form the context for life and provide some of the richest material for both joy and struggle. Improving any of our relationships improves every aspect of life. She is skilled in relationship, family, and couple counselor, and love working with people who are addressing family relationship challenges, improving couple communication, or exploring improved intimate connection.