DSTT Professional Training Program

For Therapists Wanting to Learn More about Deceptive Sexuality and Trauma Treatment:

DSTT Professional Training transforms best practices for treating the psychological abuse disorder associated with infidelity, compulsive sexual behavior disorders, and sex addiction. This training program in Deceptive Sexuality and Trauma Treatment (DSTT) educates licensed mental health professionals in the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of deceptive sexuality and trauma, as developed and taught by licensed psychologist, Dr. Omar Minwalla.

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DSTT Professional Training Program

For Therapists Wanting to Learn More about Deceptive Sexuality and Trauma Treatment:
DSTT Professional Training transforms best practices for treating the psychological abuse disorder associated with infidelity, compulsive sexual behavior disorders, and sex addiction.

Four Levels of Professional Training

This training program in Deceptive Sexuality and Trauma Treatment (DSTT) educates licensed mental health professionals in the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of deceptive sexuality and trauma.

Level 1: The Illumination Series

Level 1: The Illumination Series is a 28-Hour, 4-day, online live webinar that provides psychoeducation for men on deceptive sexuality and the traumatic impacts that sexual acting out, patterns of infidelity, and cheating often have on the intimate partner, the relationship, and sometimes children and the family system. By revealing and validating the experiences of their intimate partners, participants gain an understanding of deceptive sexuality as a psychological abuse, and not just a sex problem. The primary objective here is illumination, helping men see more clearly the psychological operation of integrity-abuse, and shining a light on the 22 specified traumatic impacts on other human beings (DST-22).
Level 1: The Illumination Series is an introduction to the model, meaning the sexuality problem, the psychological abuse disorder, and the specified trauma referred to a deceptive sexuality trauma, as well as the underlying etiological factors and a framework in conceptualizing and understanding what is meant by deceptive sexuality as a type of psychological abuse disorder that causes trauma-related symptoms. This is simply an illumination process, the ability to see more clearly and understand how this model is different from traditional models for compulsive sexual behavior disorder, sex addiction and infidelity treatments and how this approach utilizes and relies on ethical and clinical standards for the psychological treatment for intimate partner abuse and relationship maltreatment. This is a consciousness raising process related to abuse-victim-trauma existing reality (AVT-ER). This does not yet mean you are able or permitted to apply this to patients.

Credits

45 Hours, CE offered by APA. You are awarded CE credits at the end of the program.

Pricing

USD 2,000 for all four modules or USD 500 per module.

Schedule

Module 1: TBD

Module 2: TBD

Module 3: TBD

Module 4: TBD

Time

Daily schedule:
08:00 AM – 2:00 PM PST

Syllabus

This course provides professionals with an overview of how to recognize the psychological abuse disorder, intimate partner abuse and relationship maltreatment when treating infidelity, compulsive sexual behavior disorder, and sex addiction. This module reviews APA guidelines for psychological practice and treating intimate partner abuse.

Learning Objectives: Upon completion of DSTT Module 1, professionals will be able to
  1. Define deceptive sexuality in patient-friendly language
  2. Apply the metaphor of The Secret Sexual Basement to describing psychological abuse
  3. Describe sexual entitlement
  4. Explain intimate partner psychological abuse and infidelity
  5. Discuss psychological operation as systemic abuse
  6. Define other specified trauma-stress disorder
  7. List two ways deceptive sexuality is a form of intimate partner abuse and relationship violence
  8. List two APA Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Girls and Women related to ethics and standards of care
  9. List two APA Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Boys and Men related to ethics and standards of care
  10. Analyze why sex addiction treatment is improved by being informed by an abuse-victim-trauma consciousness and not simply a sexuality problem

Module 2 introduces clinically relevant underlying factors that contribute to deceptive sexuality. Professionals will learn to apply the science of complex trauma to child and adolescent, gender, and sexual development, to better understand the etiology of deceptive sexuality as psychological abuse, intimate partner abuse and relationship maltreatment.

Learning Objectives: Upon completion of DSTT Module 2, professionals will be able to
  1. List four potential underlying factors that may contribute to deceptive sexuality
  2. Describe six symptoms associated with complex trauma
  3. Explain, using client-friendly language, how gender and sexual socialization can be forms of maltreatment and cause complex trauma
  4. Describe two ways that masculinity socialization may contribute to deceptive sexuality
  5. Describe two ways sexuality socialization may contribute to deceptive sexuality
  6. Explain, using client-friendly language, how personality disorders are formed
  7. List three personality characteristics that contribute to deceptive sexuality
  8. Analyze how clinical symptoms and life stressors are related to deceptive sexuality
  9. Explain the term sexual entitlement in clinical practice with men seeking help
  10. Explain, using client-friendly language, how childhood trauma may contribute to deceptive sexuality problems

Module 3 is a highly curated, immersive, professional deep-dive in assessing and recognizing deceptive sexuality trauma (DST), and the 22 injuries and symptoms potentially experienced by people who have been subjected to prolonged patterns of integrity-abuse and compulsive- entitled sexuality.

Learning Objectives: Upon completion of DSTT Module 3, professionals will be able to
  1. Define intimate partner psychological abuse and trauma
  2. Identify 22 trauma injuries or symptoms for intimate partners
  3. Identify and explain the three clinical phases of trauma and abuse
  4. Identify the mechanics of gaslighting and second brain injury
  5. Identify gaslighting as a form of psychological manipulation
  6. Identify three post-traumatic stress symptoms of reality-ego fragmentation
  7. Define attachment injury
  8. Utilize an educational metaphor to help describe attachment injury
  9. Explain reality-ego reconstruction as a critical treatment goal
  10. Explain how integrity-abuse can interfere with healing attempts
  11. Describe how integrity-abuse occurs in all three phases
  12. Identify post-traumatic persistent relational patterns among patients
  13. Identify attachment, children, family, and community injuries for victims-survivors
  14. List and describe in client-friendly language, using potential educational metaphors, the 22 injuries and symptom clusters of deceptive sexuality abuse and trauma
  15. Identify three ethical and clinical mistakes increasing risk for treatment-induced trauma

Module 4 provides an introduction to what clinical treatment looks like and some of the basic conditions, ethics, and clinical considerations, including a five stage treatment process, cognitive-behavioral treatment and psychoeducation, trauma treatments, systemic abuse and restorative justice, and American Psychological Association Guidelines for Psychological Practice.

Learning Objectives: Upon completion of DSTT Module 4, professionals will be able to
  1. List the five stages of treatment
  2. Identify how cognitive-behavioral therapy can be used to treat integrity-abuse
  3. Demonstrate how the metaphor of “Three Plates Spinning” can help explain relational and systemic treatment
  4. Identify integrity-abuse disorder when treating infidelity in clinical practice
  5. List two trauma therapies that are integrated for treatment of survivors
  6. Analyze how a restorative justice model applies to the treatment of abusive-injured relationship(s)
  7. Describe the importance of sexuality and gender consciousness in clinical practice
  8. Critique the bystander approach as applied to clinical psychological practice
  9. Explain, in client-friendly language, why deceptive sexuality is a form of systemic abuse
  10. Explain how abuse, victim, and trauma education can be a tool for social justice, empowering women, liberating men, and emancipating all humans from the perpetuation of systemic sexuality and gender maltreatment and trauma.
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Level 2: The Application Series

Level 2: The Application Series describes the initial phases of assessment, diagnosis and treatment planning for the abuser, the victim-survivor, and the abusive-injured relationship(s) and presents an academic overview of the five stages of treatment using a systemic and relational restorative justice abuse-victim-trauma approach. Basic clinical tasks, structured psychoeducation protocol, and how to develop basic initial treatment plans with patients are described. This includes education on how to use cognitive-behavioral treatment to treat the psychological abuse disorder relying on gender sensitive programming, specific abuse, and trauma methods of stabilizing the victim-survivor and the abusive-injured relationship(s), including the use of restorative justice and intimate partner abuse and trauma- treatment approaches for deceptive sexuality trauma-related symptoms. This does not yet mean you are able or permitted to apply this to patients.

Credits

48 Hours, CE offered by APA. You are awarded CE credits at the end of the program.

Pricing

USD 1,500 for all four modules or USD 375 per module.

Schedule

Module 5: TBD

Module 6: TBD

Module 7: TBD

Module 8: TBD

Time

Daily schedule:
08:00 AM – 2:00 PM PST

Syllabus

The course covers necessary conditions of clinical care, ethical standards, and specific abuse-trauma-oriented perspectives to best facilitate therapeutic metabolization and integration of this type of abuse, and discuss individual, group, and intensive treatment of victim-survivors of deceptive sexuality. The course will address assessment, diagnosis, and initial stabilization for the intimate partner or spouse.

Learning Objectives: Upon completion of DSTT Module 5, professionals will be able to
  1. Explain four clinical mistakes and/or blind spots to avoid in the treatment of victim(s)-survivors of psychological abuse and intimate partner abuse
  2. Assess integrity-abuse symptoms experienced by the victim-survivor(s)
  3. Use the DSM-V to properly diagnose psychological intimate partner abuse (victim)
  4. Describe the five stages of treatment for the intimate partner or spouse
  5. Define four types of trauma that apply to victims of intimate partner abuse
  6. Describe the role of clinical conditions versus techniques
  7. List three conditions to consider in the therapeutic container and relationship
  8. Describe in client-friendly language, the metaphor for metabolization
  9. List two ways that the DST-22 psychoeducation protocol is used as part of treatment
  10. Discuss the role of both individual and group psychotherapy
  11. Apply gender-sensitive practice guidelines to the treatment of the victim-survivor
  12. Explain restorative justice as applied to the treatment of the victim-survivor
This course provides clinical training on how to assess, diagnose, and treat patients seeking treatment for sex addiction, compulsive sexual behavior, and infidelity. Professionals will be able to assess, diagnose and develop treatment plans that include sexual entitlement, psychological abuse disorder, and helping patients better attend to their victims and injured relationships as well, in a cohesive and gender-sensitive and restorative justice approach.
Learning Objectives: Upon completion of DSTT Module 6, professionals will be able to
  1. List the five stages of treatment for a patient with deceptive sexuality problems
  2. Use the DSM-V to properly diagnose psychological intimate partner abuse (abuser)
  3. Discuss four clinical mistakes to avoid in treating psychological partner abuse
  4. Describe the assessment of the abuser
  5. Design a treatment plan for integrity-abuse behaviors
  6. Use an educational metaphor to encourage abuse for men
  7. Explain the concept of reality-ego reconstruction for the abuser
  8. Describe the use of group therapy in treating abusers
  9. Explain how deceptive sexuality relates to masculinity pathology in client-friendly language
  10. Discuss the role of accountability in treatment with abusers
  11. Apply and use a simple cognitive-behavioral worksheet with abusers
  12. List four ethical reasons provided by APA literature for addressing psychological abuse when treating the person struggling with intimate partner abuse disorder, psychological
This course provides advanced clinical training on how to assess and treat the abusive-injured relationship(s), as a third and separate treatment entity. Necessary conditions of clinical care, ethical and clinical standards of care, and how the relationship moves through the five stages of the DSTT will be covered.
Learning Objectives: Upon completion of DSTT Module 7, professionals will be able to
  1. List the five stages of DSTT for the abusive-injured relationship(s).
  2. Identify integrity-abuse and impact on the relationship in the covert phase
  3. Identify integrity-abuse and impact on the relationship in the exposure phase
  4. Identify integrity-abuse and impact on the relationship in the symptom progression phase
  5. Able to use educational metaphor to describe attachment injuries in client friendly language
  6. Define gender-sensitive psychological practice
  7. Define a restorative justice approach in treatment for the injured relationship(s)
  8. Describe why clinical coordination and a systemic and relational intervention is critical
  9. Discuss post-traumatic growth for the relationship
  10. List four guidelines provided by APA literature for the treatment of abusive-injured relationship(s)
  11. Explain the difference between attachment-based and restorative justice intervention
  12. List four ethical mistakes that couples and therapists make when treating intimate partner abuse provided by APA literature
This course will complete the ethical and clinical educational infrastructure of DSTT with a concise review of the five stages, initial clinical procedures, CBT, worksheets, and defining realistic professional expectations as a professional at this stage of education.
Learning Objectives: Upon completion of DSTT Module 8, professionals will be able to
  1. Conduct and use an IAD assessment for integrity-abuse with an abuser
  2. Use a CBT worksheet with patients to help reduce integrity-abuse behavior(s)
  3. Apply and use the daily and treatment scan protocol with abusers in practice
  4. Explain how and why treatment integrates metaphor therapy
  5. Explain the term AVT-ER and its relevance to deceptive sexuality treatment
  6. Utilize a victim-specific assessment for potential abuse and trauma symptoms
  7. Use and apply a psychoeducational method to help stabilize victim(s) of abuse and trauma
  8. List three critical considerations in helping patients metabolize abuse-victim- trauma
  9. Open and close a treatment session in an individual, relationship, or group psychotherapy context that helps create therapeutic conditions helpful in treating abuse and trauma patients.
  10. Demonstrate effective communication techniques to explain to patients how treatment for deceptive sexuality concerns will include a focus on psychological abuse disorder, and not just sexual behavior(s)
  11. Define a gender-sensitive approach in treatment for the abuser, the victim(s), and the abusive-injured relationship(s)
  12. Describe right brain interventions used to facilitate clinical metabolization
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Level 3: The Practice Series

Level 3: The Practice Series focuses on the practice of DSTT, intimate partner abuse and trauma treatment that integrates bottom-up sciences, ethical and clinical practice guidelines, and Dr. Minwalla’s Intentional Vibe Theory (IVT) and teachings. Level 3 is where Dr. Minwalla’s education is joined by The Institute for Sexual Health’s Faculty and Instructor, Trish Haight, MFT, CSAT, CCPS, NARM to describe the specific practice of DSTT, as an expansive, complex and comprehensive model for treating infidelity, compulsive sexual behavior, and sex addiction.

Credits

45 Hours, no CE. 

Pricing

USD 1300 for all four modules or USD 325 per module. 

Schedule

Module 9: TBD

Module 10: TBD

Module 11: TBD

Module 12: TBD

Time

Daily schedule:
08:00 AM – 2:00 PM PST

Syllabus

Module 9 focuses on Assessment, Diagnosis and Treatment Planning:
  1. Assess, Diagnosis, and Treatment Plan with the Abuser
  2. How to conduct the DST-22: Covert Phase
  3. Assess, Diagnosis, and Treatment Plan with the Victim(s)
  4. Intentional Clinical Frequencies (ICF)
Learning Objectives: Upon completion of DSTT Module 9, professionals will be able to
  1. Apply cognitive-behavioral therapy methods to treat integrity-abuse disorder (IAD)
  2. Assess and properly diagnosis psychological abuse using the DSM-V
  3. Identify psychological abuse and integrity-abuse behaviors in clinical practice
  4. Demonstrate how to develop an integrity-abuse treatment plan for the abuser
  5. Explain, in client-friendly language, gaslighting mechanics
  6. List the two types of survival patterns that emerge in patient-orientation responding
  7. Explain, in client-friendly language, complex trauma shaping due to psychological abuse
  8. Explain how to assess, diagnosis, and treatment plan with victim(s) of deceptive sexuality
  9. Apply the methodology of ATC as used in DSTT
  10. List the three core Intentional Clinical Frequencies (ICF) used in DSTT
Module 10 focuses on crisis management and clinical stabilization:
  1. Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment (CBT) applied to Integrity-Abuse Disorder (IAD)
  2. How to conduct the DST-22: Exposure Phase
  3. DSTT Bottom-Up and ICF for Stabilization of Victim-Survivor(s)
  4. Intentionally Accurate-Authentic Reality (IAR)
Learning Objectives: Upon completion of DSTT Module 10, professionals will be able to
  1. How to order the exposure phase psychoeducational content in a client-friendly manner
  2. Apply the concept of integrity-abuse to post-traumatic stress trauma in the exposure phase
  3. Demonstrate how to help patients with integrity-abuse using cognitive-behavioral therapy
  4. Explain and describe the concept of liminal space as used in DSTT
  5. Explain, in client-friendly language, the 2 sources of post-traumatic stress in exposure phase
  6. Apply in practice, the educational metaphor for exposure phase integrity-abuse
  7. Explain how specific psychoeducation used is not simply intellectual or academic
  8. Explain three concepts used to assist in stabilizing and treating the victim-survivor
  9. List and describe the three critical injuries associated with deceptive sexuality trauma
  10. Explain the difference, in client-friendly language, between IMR and IAR
Module 11 focuses on DSTT as a psychological treatment that integrates intentional clinical frequency (ICF) and specified bottom-up sciences:
  1. DSTT ICF and Bottom-Up with Abuser(s)
  2. How to conduct the DST-22: Symptom Progression Phase
  3. DSTT Intensive Clinical Metabolization with Survivors
  4. Intentional Vibe Theory (IVT)
Learning Objectives: Upon completion of DSTT Module 11, professionals will be able to
  1. Explain the survivor tasks of reality-ego reconstruction.
  2. Explain, in client-friendly language, the triadic core
  3. Explain, in client-friendly language, the importance of treating integrity-abuse in the symptom progression phase
  4. Explain, in client-friendly language, the concept of attachment injury
  5. Apply in practice, the educational metaphor used for attachment injury
  6. Discuss clinical case examples related to the metabolization phase of DSTT
  7. List 3 ways to deepen processing when working with trauma from an embodied theory
  8. Apply in practice, the educational metaphor, for reality-ego reconstruction
  9. Explain the clinical task of ego reconstruction for the abuser
  10. Explain the ethical and clinical use of gender-sensitive programming
Module 12 reviews the academic and clinical proficiencies that are expected of a professional completing Level 3 and provides professionals with guidance on realistic professional expectations in DSTT practice.
  1. Overview of Treating the Abuser, CBT, and the Integrity-Abuse Disorder (IAD)
  2. ICF and Bottom-Up Integration for DST-22 Psychoeducational Protocol
  3. Professional CDC, Integration, and Expansion
  4. Be a Better Man Movement and Honest Sexuality Movement (HSM)
Learning Objectives: Upon completion of DSTT Module 12, professionals will be able to
  1. List and describe the four areas of proficiencies for Level DSTT education
  2. Apply an educational metaphor to examine specific areas of professional growth
  3. Demonstrate how to create DSTT-Therapeutic container
  4. Explain Intentional Vibe Theory (IVT)
  5. Use and apply a DSTT right-brain integration technique in practice
  6. Apply ICF-Bottom-up techniques to DST Treatment
  7. Explain the term, Clinical Dignifying Clinical or Circle (CDC)
  8. Explain the Honest Sexuality Theorem (HST)
  9. List the three-core masculine social prescripts according to the Minwalla Model teachings
  10. Discuss abuse, victim, trauma education, practice and professionalism lo
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Level 4: Supervision, Training Experience and Certification

Becoming a DSTT professional requires a sufficient level of education, starting with Illumination, followed the initial structure and foundational ethics, and then grounded in Dr. DSTT bottom-up sciences and intentional vibe theory. Further, DSTT is unique in that it is a consciousness in abuse-victim-trauma (AVT), justice, and human rights, and hence an expected proficiency and competency in psychological practice related to ethics, abuse, human sexuality, gender, and psychological, relational, and social health are part of this training and certification. There are supervision and training requirements required after all three levels of education, before a professional can be credentialed, and there is no guarantee that any professional will become credentialed at this level in order to maintain standard of care and protect both patients and the model. Finally, the supervision, evaluation and certification process is unique and personalized to each professional and empowers professional development through a collaborative project process and final group presentation. This provides professionals the ability to be mentored by Dr. Minwalla and their professional cohort in developing programs or services to help people who are seeking this treatment model within various communities and contexts.

Credits

45 total CE Hours. You are awarded CE credits at the end of the program. 

Pricing

USD 1,200.

Schedule

Module 13: TBD

Module 14: TBD

Module 15: TBD

Module 16: TBD

Time

9 Days total over 3 months Daily schedule: 8am-2pm PT Starting from 23rd September. Starting from

Syllabus

Supervision is defined as, the formal provision, by approved supervisors, of a relationship-based education and training that is work-focused, and which manages, supports, develops, and evaluates the work of professionals.
There will be a monthly supervision group, which will provide the hours required, as well as opportunity for individual or smaller group or pair supervision with Dr. Minwalla and/or ISH Faculty Supervisor(s). 20 Hours of group or individual supervision are required.

Qualified Candidates who have completed Level 3 are required to attain 20 hours of applied training experience, which would be supervised hours of direct client experience, which can be participation in ISH programming, such as:

  1. Be a Better Man 1: The Illumination Course (28 hours)
  2. Be a Better Man 2: The Application Course (25 hours)
  3. Professional Training Small Group Leader (10 -15 Hours per Module)
  4. Education or Training Development, Roles, or Opportunities
  5. Community-Outreach and Public Awareness.
  6. Survivor Network and Advocacy
  7. Other ongoing opportunities
  1. Only credentialed DSTT professionals are permitted to practice DSTT, or to use or apply any related materials or intellectual property, unless granted specific exception or permission by ISH and Dr. Minwalla.
  2. There are supervision and training requirements required after all three levels of education and training has been completed before a professional can be credentialed as either DSTT, which stands for, Deceptive Sexuality and Trauma Therapist.
  3. DSTA (DST-Aware), is a designation for unlicensed professionals who have been grand-fathered into a credential that indicates that they have attained approved training based on their stated profession and based on Dr. Minwalla’s mentorship and approval.
  1. The Institute for Sexual Health is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Institute for Sexual Health maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
  2. The DSTT education offers professionals CE credits for both Level 1 and Level 2, but not for Level 3.
  3. Professional CDC, Integration, and Expansion
  4. Be a Better Man Movement and Honest Sexuality Movement (HSM)
  5. Level 3, Modules 9-12, are based more dominantly on Dr. Minwalla’s voice, clinical experience, research, and his grounded theory teachings, so currently, no CE is offered by the APA for Level 3.
  6. All CE are offered per module, not per level.
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Good Learning

Dr. Minwalla presents this material in a very empathetic and understanding manner. He doesn't give a pass to the abuser, but he makes you very aware that he understands your pain, remorse, and what you're going through as you hear the material. He lets you know that he is there to help you if needed. This course will help make me a better person. I now understand how I have harmed my wife as I never have before. Although she told me many times about how I was hurting her, my understanding was shallow and never real until this course.

Professional Therapist from Level 2

Good Learning

Dr. Minwalla presents this material in a very empathetic and understanding manner. He doesn't give a pass to the abuser, but he makes you very aware that he understands your pain, remorse, and what you're going through as you hear the material. He lets you know that he is there to help you if needed. This course will help make me a better person. I now understand how I have harmed my wife as I never have before. Although she told me many times about how I was hurting her, my understanding was shallow and never real until this course.

Professional Therapist from Level 2

Good Learning

Dr. Minwalla presents this material in a very empathetic and understanding manner. He doesn't give a pass to the abuser, but he makes you very aware that he understands your pain, remorse, and what you're going through as you hear the material. He lets you know that he is there to help you if needed. This course will help make me a better person. I now understand how I have harmed my wife as I never have before. Although she told me many times about how I was hurting her, my understanding was shallow and never real until this course.

Professional Therapist from Level 2

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Licensed mental health professionals, including psychologists, marriage and family therapists, licensed clinical social workers, and other professionals licensed to practice psychology independently.

Licensed mental health professionals, including psychologists, marriage and family therapists, licensed clinical social workers, and other professionals licensed to practice psychology independently.

Yes, for Level 1 and 2, CE is offered by the American Psychological Association (APA).

The Institute for Sexual Health (ISH) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Institute for Sexual Health maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Yes. This training through The Institute for Sexual Health (ISH) will certify people with the acronym DSTT, Deceptive Sexuality and Trauma Therapist. The acronym DSTA, Deceptive Sexuality and Trauma Aware is a designation for those professionals who complete Level 3, but do not become certified or are not licensed therapists.

All Modules are conducted by Dr. Minwalla through Live Webinar via Zoom.

All Modules are conducted by Dr. Minwalla through Live Webinar via Zoom.

Yes. They will be available for review for students and will have access as part of the education process, however, these videos will not be given or provided for students to own, download, or to distribute.

Yes. DSTT is a psychological treatment for abuse and trauma disorders, which are mental health diagnoses and conditions, and as such must only be treated by licensed mental health professionals.

Please review the FAQ section, About Page and the Resource Library Page. If you still have questions you may leave a message at [email protected].

Not yet, because this training began in February of 2022. Dr. Minwalla is training the first DSTT professional cohort at this time and referrals and a network is the intention.

Licensed mental health professionals, including psychologists, marriage and family therapists, licensed clinical social workers, and other professionals licensed to practice psychology independently.

Licensed mental health professionals, including psychologists, marriage and family therapists, licensed clinical social workers, and other professionals licensed to practice psychology independently.

Yes, for Level 1 and 2, CE is offered by the American Psychological Association (APA).

The Institute for Sexual Health (ISH) is approved by the American Psychological Association
to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Institute for Sexual Health maintains
responsibility for this program and its content.

Yes. This training through The Institute for Sexual Health (ISH) will certify people with the acronym DSTT, Deceptive Sexuality and Trauma Therapist. The acronym DSTA, Deceptive Sexuality and Trauma Aware is a designation for those professionals who complete Level 3, but do not become certified or are not licensed therapists.

Yes. DSTT is a rigorous professional training, consisting of three Levels of professional education and training, followed by a Level 4 which focuses on supervision, training, evaluation and a unique mentorship as the certification process after Level 3.

All Modules are conducted by Dr. Minwalla through Live Webinar via Zoom.

Yes. They will be available for review for students and will have access as part of the education process, however, these videos will not be given or provided for students to own, download, or to distribute.

Yes. DSTT is a psychological treatment for abuse and trauma disorders, which are mental health diagnoses and conditions, and as such must only be treated by licensed mental health professionals.

Please review the FAQ section, About Page and the Resource Library Page. If you still have questions you may leave a message at [email protected].

Not yet, because this training began in February of 2022. Dr. Minwalla is training the first DSTT professional cohort at this time and referrals and a network is the intention.

The Institute for Sexual Health (ISH) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Institute for Sexual Health maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

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