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Therapy with Religious Clients
Instructor: Natasha Helfer, LMFT, CSTS
We created this course to help counselors and therapists provide competent and affirming treatment for clients from religious backgrounds - specifically religiously conservative backgrounds.
By enrolling in this course, you will understand how to honor clients within their cultural and religious spaces while offering the best standards of care, as well as the skill of keeping personal bias in check.
You will also discover both protective and non-protective factors spirituality and religion can have in the lives of clients and treatment methods and interventions a therapist should consider when working with religiously conservative people.
Why Should You Take This Course?
Religion and spirituality are powerful aspects of the human experience and should not be ignored during mental health treatment. While training programs routinely include multicultural training, clinicians receive little to no training on how to work with folks from religious backgrounds, how to include religious and spiritual factors in treatment planning, or how these competencies can help with more successful treatment results.
Research shows that religion and spirituality are considered important factors in many people's lives, and they would prefer clinicians to be comfortable discussing them.
MEET THE INSTRUCTOR
Natasha Helfer, LMFT, CSTS
Natasha Helfer LMFT, CST-S, received her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Brigham Young University and her Master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Friends University.
She also received her certifications as a sex therapist and sex therapist supervisor from the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT).
Helfer is a speaker, writer, and podcaster with 23 years of clinical experience primarily working with a Mormon clientele around issues of relational health, faith transitions and journeys, and sexuality. She writes a blog called "The Mormon Therapist," and hosts the podcasts "Mormon Mental Health," and "Mormon Sex Info."
Helfer has authored two books: “One Family, Two Views” (mixed-faith marriage) and “Check your Baggage” (challenging sex negative messages). Helfer has presented all over the country both in professional and public settings, has been invited as a guest speaker at several national and international events as well as been interviewed on a variety of podcasts, TV news programs and newspapers.
Helfer was recently excommunicated from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (aka Mormon church) for issues surrounding her advocacy for sexual health.
She also received her certifications as a sex therapist and sex therapist supervisor from the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT).
Helfer is a speaker, writer, and podcaster with 23 years of clinical experience primarily working with a Mormon clientele around issues of relational health, faith transitions and journeys, and sexuality. She writes a blog called "The Mormon Therapist," and hosts the podcasts "Mormon Mental Health," and "Mormon Sex Info."
Helfer has authored two books: “One Family, Two Views” (mixed-faith marriage) and “Check your Baggage” (challenging sex negative messages). Helfer has presented all over the country both in professional and public settings, has been invited as a guest speaker at several national and international events as well as been interviewed on a variety of podcasts, TV news programs and newspapers.
Helfer was recently excommunicated from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (aka Mormon church) for issues surrounding her advocacy for sexual health.
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