With active engagement and consistent participation, participants will:
-learn how to identify, invest in, create, maintain, and end romantic relationships,
-gain introspective understanding of their own growing sexuality, sexual interests, and sexual selves,
-reflect on and explore personal knowledge of their own romantic and relational wants, needs, and boundaries, and
-consider and practice ways to explore and express these things in a healthy, safe, consensual manner.

Group Agenda:
Weeks 1-4 attend to the Romance Dimensions of Noticing, Attraction, Flirtation, Demonstration, Romance, Individuation, & Intimacy
Weeks 5-8 attend to the Sexual Dimensions of Consent, Touch, Foreplay, Arousal, Desire, Intercourse, and Orgasms**
Weeks 9-10 focus on Hard Conversations, including specific topics like setting boundaries and navigating conversations on sex when one or more partners has a sexual trauma history, and Ending Relationships.

A more specific group outline is available upon request.

Membership Requirements:
-A free, 15-20 minute pre-group screening session and/or a signed Release of Information for a consult with the Member's current individual therapist prior to first session; this assesses for goodness-of-fit re: the groups’ contents, any trauma or safety concerns, etc.
--consistent access to a private space with strong internet connection
-comprehension and maturity level consistent with the topics at hand (inappropriate comments and/or behavior may remove the member from the group entirely, context dependent)
-enrollment and participation in sessions with an individual counselor or therapist (required for sex addiction groups; preferred for adolescent/young adult groups)


**This group was created to supplement the (albeit inconsistent) American health education, which often does provide some level of anatomical, medical, and/or mechanical information. Questions of this nature are welcome in group, with the knowledge that the group will not focus on such content as: the mechanics of sexual engagement up to penetrative intercourse; detailed information on specific sexually transmitted infections; “risks” of sexual engagement rooted in religious, spiritual, or institutionalized views, such as pregnancy before marriage or legal adulthood; moral, value, body, preference, or judgements; comparisons and contrasts; etc.**