The Art of Sex Coaching: Expanding Your Practice [Hardcover]

Patti Britton (Author)

Book Description

Series: Norton Professional Books | Publication Date: April 17, 2005

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.

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About the Author

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.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 272 pages
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (April 17, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0393704513
• ISBN-13: 978-0393704518
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.4 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #908,099 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good book!, September 24, 2008

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J. Winn (Massachusetts, USA.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Art of Sex Coaching: Expanding Your Practice (Hardcover)

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!

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Now I'm a Sex and Intimacy Coach, March 14, 2006

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Celeste Hirschman (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Art of Sex Coaching: Expanding Your Practice (Hardcover)

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.

3.0 out of 5 stars Correction, November 11, 2011

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Donna Steinhorn "Life and Executive Coach" (New Jersey) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Art of Sex Coaching: Expanding Your Practice (Hardcover)

I heartily concur that coaches and other helping professionals need to be able to work on their clients whole lives..sex certainly being a part of that. I'm always astonished when coach says "oh that's not something I ever discuss with clients." My experience is that it comes up at least 30% of the time in some Context.

I did want to make an important correction though. Tolerations and the style of coaching attributed to Cheryl, were actually part of the coaching curriculum designed by Thomas Leonard, founder of Coach U and still taught there today. Cheryl was one of Thomas's early students.