ADHD and Sex: What Every Therapist Should Know
- Speaker:
- Dr. Lyne Piche
- Duration:
- 2 Hours 04 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
-
Dec 18, 2025
- Product Code:
- POS150485
- Media Type:
- Digital Seminar
Description
This session explores how impulsivity, sensory issues, and distractibility show up on intimate experiences, and offers neurodivergent-friendly strategies to improve clinical outcomes.
You’ll learn how to:
- Recognize key ADHD-related challenges in sexual functioning
- Use targeted, affirming interventions to address these concerns
- Improve communication and comfort around sexuality with ADHD clients
Are you aware that ADHD impacts your client’s sexual functioning? Let’s explore the interconnections between ADHD and sexuality! This course is aimed at helping you improve your clinical skills by better addressing issues that are specific to neurodivergent clients such as the impact of ADHD on sexual functioning and ADHD friendly interventions to improve the effectiveness of your interventions. Key issues surrounding transitions into sex and out of sex will be highlighted along with managing sexual impulsivity, what to do about sensory issues and how to address difficulties with attention during sex. This presentation is for YOU, if you wish to explore how ADHD impacts sexuality along with intervention strategies to assist your clients sexual concerns.
From this presentation you will take away key reminders to consider with neurodivergent clients, assist your clients to better describe and understand their symptoms as it relates to neurodivergence and sex as well as improve your identification of the impact of neurodivergence on sexual functioning. Let’s refine our interventions for ADHD clients!
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Objectives
After the presentation, you will be able to:
- Discuss the importance of neurodivergent friendly strategies to improve sexual functioning in neurodivergent clients
- Demonstrate awareness of at least 3 specific aspects of sexual functioning that are impacted by ADHD
- Apply unique interventions to address ADHD and sexual problems
Outline
- Welcome!
- Sex and Play
- Getting started
- Sex requires movement
- Common ADHD & Sex Problems
- Sex Requires attention!
- Intervention strategies to improve attention during sex
- ADHD and Sex: The Basics!
- Getting Seated INTO your body
- Sex requires Sensations
- Intervention strategies to address sensory concerns during sex
- Taming hyperfocus
- Transitions in and out of Sex
- Intervention strategies to improve transitions both in and out of sex
- Interventions specific to Cisgendered Women with ADHD
- Taming sexual dysfunctions
- Understanding the impact of ADHD on sexual problems/dysfunctions
- Intimacy … Yikes!
- Skills + Pills
- This presentation is based on research that demonstrates correlations between ADHD and sexual functioning. The clinical strategies discussed in this presentation are based on the author’s clinical experience. Always remember to tailor your interventions to your specific client’s needs and seek clinical consultation as needed
Target Audience
- Licensed Clinical/Mental Health Counselors
- Psychologists
- Physicians
- Social Workers
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Occupational Therapists
- Occupational Therapy Assistants
- Social Workers
- Others
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