TALKING TO YOUR KIDS ABOUT SEX ONLINE SUPPORT GROUP FOR PARENTS

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Open Enrollment - Biweekly group, every other Sunday at 4pmCST/3pmMST

Fee: $30

Location: Online

Facilitators: Caroline Lee, Julia Bowman

This group is for parents with minor children who struggle with and /or want to talk to their children about sex, sexual health, and sexuality.. In this group, parents will learn how to talk to their children about sex, regardless of their age, as well as process their own emotions around talking about all things sex. The group will provide a safe space for parents to share about this common parenting struggle. Come explore the possibility of open dialogue with your children, let go of shame and embarrassment, and learn a sex-positive approach to talking to children.

What this Group Will Cover

Emotionally preparing parents for their children to eventually become sexually active
Helping parents navigate the conversation about consent
Helping parents cover the gaps left by school sex education
Helping parents cope and navigate their own emotional or mental blocks related to talking about sexuality, sex, and intimacy
Provide parents with evidence-based sex education, information, and data
Providing resources that are inclusive to gender identity, sexual orientation and non-heteronormative relationships
Helping parents navigate conversations related to cultural messages, influences, and standards such as slut-shaming and rape culture

Caroline Lee - Master's Level Therapist

Caroline is a Marriage and Family Therapist in training at the University of Colorado Denver and is working on her sex therapy certification through the Sexual Health Alliance. With empathy and kindness, Caroline utilizes an integrative and holistic approach to therapy rooted in Emotionally Focused Therapy with aspects of Internal Family Systems, Narrative Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy where appropriate to best serve her clients and their needs. She also brings a systemic lens to therapy to explore how external factors such as race, socioeconomics, dominant culture, ableism, heteronormative values, etc. impact her clients’ experiences of life.

Caroline is passionate about working with clients on all the experiences and issues that come up in the course of a lifetime. Within sex therapy, Caroline is passionate about working with healing childhood sexual abuse, sexual trauma, kink, eroticism and intimacy, and consensual nonmonogamy. She is also am passionate about the intersections of sex and chronic illness/cancer, and sex and spirituality.

Julia Bowman - Respark Sliding Scale Therapist

I have lived in Austin Texas for the majority of my life. Sex has never been a topic that makes me uncomfortable in any way, and I enjoy hearing about everyone’s unique perspectives and experiences.

I graduated from Capella with a bachelor’s in Science for Psychology in 2018. I also successfully completed all of my sex therapy training through the Sexual Health Alliance. I am currently attending Capella for the Master’s program in Mental Health Counseling.