Ep 9: Teaching sex therapy, community care and centering intersecting identities - Dr. Anthony Pennant & MA Student Jazzy Bryant

About this episode

The episode discusses the political nature of therapy and how educators can address vulnerable populations in teaching sex therapy.

Today we start our conversation from the premise that therapy is very political, as it has always been. The current legislation movement has affected so many vulnerable populations (anti-trans laws, erasure of LGBTQIA2S+ terms from government agencies and webpages, cancelation of grants supporting gender-expansive communities, prohibition of gender-affirming care for youth, state-specific abortion laws etc.). In what ways are we staying well enough as educators to resist the harm? How does our resistance show up in teaching sex therapy? How do we begin uncomfortable and vulnerable conversations about these topics with our MFT students? What is multi dynamic relational therapy and how will it impact the way sex therapy is taught? How is this model taught in the classroom by Dr. Pennant and what did Jazzy get out of it as a student? How is the practice and legacy of intersectionality different in the classroom vs. in community and advocacy spaces? Dr. Pennant is an international speaker and expert in neurodiversity, LGBT+ relationships, and attachment and foster care, with a dedicated focus on research in systemic intervention. With a doctorate in Couple and Family Therapy from…

People in this episode

Guests: Dr. Anthony Pennant, Jazzy Bryant

Topics covered

• sex therapy
• community care
• intersectionality
• educational resistance
• vulnerable populations
• multi dynamic relational therapy

Keywords

• therapy
• politics
• LGBTQIA2S+
• intersectionality
• education
• MFT students
• community advocacy
• multi dynamic relational therapy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Society for the Teaching of Marriage and Family Therapy, American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, The Colibri Center for Systemic Training

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