Presenter: Alex Tatum, PhD, CST-S

Dr. Alex Tatum earned his PhD in Counseling Psychology from Loyola University Chicago in 2018. He completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in sexual health and sex therapy at the University of Minnesota’s Medical School in 2020. Dr. Tatum is currently employed as an Assistant Professor of Clinical-Counseling Psychology at Illinois State University where he teaches undergraduate and graduate coursework. His research program studies factors that promote the health and well-being of queer full-time workers and people in consensually non-monogamous relationships. Dr. Tatum is an AASECT Certified Supervisor of Sex Therapy and currently serves on AASECT’s Ethics Advisory Committee. He maintains a small private practice in Chicago called Radical Authenticity & Wellness (RAW) that primarily serves the queer community, and he trains and supervises graduate psychology students seeking sex therapy certification.

Learning Objectives

Learning Objective 1:

Identify three motivations that precipitate the decision to enter into CNM relationships.

Learning Objective 2:

Identify three strengths that can be harnessed in therapy sessions when working with clients who are coping with common relational challenges.

Learning Objective 3:

Identify three challenges commonly associated with engagement in CNM relationships.

Course Curriculum

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