Essential Strategies for Healing Sexual Trauma and Sexuality
with Ariel Giarretto
Ariel Giarretto’s internationally renowned workshop comes to Budapest for the first time
March 12-14, 2027
If we have worked with clients who experienced sexual trauma in childhood, adults who have survived sexual violence, couples struggling with sexual incompatibility, or individuals living with debilitating shame, dissociation, body image disturbances, or a general difficulty feeling present and at home in their own bodies, then we know how complex, sensitive, and deeply impactful these issues can be.
This workshop is designed to tackle just these issues, and is aimed at helping practitioners acquire a variety of new and effective tools to best serve these clients—even the toughest ones. Introducing material and exercises not covered in the Somatic Experiencing training, and is especially designed to help those who most refuse to inhabit their bodies.
What you will learn:
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Identify and actively repair that which is destroyed as a result of childhood sexual abuse
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Learn advanced strategies for reworking sexual trauma without re-traumatizing.
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Help clients with complex histories identify clear goals, so you both know where you’re headed, and then take the most direct path to recovery
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Learn a variety ways of working shame and helping clients escape from its clutches
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Learn new techniques that strengthen boundaries, help people “find their voice”, and express genuine “embodied consent”
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Learn some of the newest science in sex education that will help you explain essential facts to your clients that will normalize behaviors and lessen shame.
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Learn multiple embodiment exercises that support regulation in the present—which helps people who are triggered by daily life find moment-to-moment resource and stability.
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How to help those most reluctant to inhabit their bodies actually find ease and pleasure!
Who will benefit:
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therapists,
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psychologists,
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bodyworkers
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sex educators,
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intimacy and relationship coaches,
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practitioners seeking deeper competence in somatic approaches to sexuality and trauma.
Ariel Giarretto, MS (she/they), is a body-oriented therapist, trainer and Somatic Sex Educator. After completing post-graduate studies in counseling psychology and becoming licensed as a Marriage and Family Therapist in California, she trained in a wide range of somatic and touch therapies.
Introduced to Somatic Experiencing (SE) in 1999, she became full-time teaching faculty in 2005. In 2015 she certified as a Somatic Sex Educator at The Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco.
She specializes in sexual and gender-based violence, sexuality and relationship challenges, and has trained therapists working with Ukraine war refugees and survivors of war rape. She co-developed The Full Embodiment Model, offering transformative workshops for healing sexual trauma and disembodiment.
For decades in private practice, she worked extensively with couples and individuals navigating childhood sexual abuse, libido differences, sexual dysfunction and infertility.
Her mission is to support people of all identities and trauma histories in experiencing pleasure, ease and embodied connection.
The workshop will be conducted in English with simultaneous interpretation into Hungarian.
Details:
Date: March 12-14, 2027
Friday: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Saturday: 9:30 AM - 6:00 PM
Sunday: 9:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Venue: Harmónia Palota
(Múzeum utca 9, Budapest 1088)
Early Bird Price until 11. 30, 2026: HUF 149,000
Discounted Price between 12. 01, 2026 and 01. 31, 2027: HUF 165,000
Regular Price from 02. 01, 2027: HUF 179,000
Your place can be secured with a deposit of HUF 45,000.
We look forward to welcoming you!
The SE Hungary Team
What happens when trauma leaves its imprint not only on our memories, but also on our relationship with our bodies, intimacy, and pleasure?