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EDSE Sex Educator Certification - Spring 2026

Title of Event: EDSE Sex Educator Certification - Spring 2026

Description of Event: 

SPRING 2026 Cohort:

EDSE’s Sex Educator Certification is packed with the expansive sexuality, health, and pleasure information you need to level-up your career, elevate your knowledge, and become a true change-maker. We welcome attendees of all experience levels and from any service-centered field, including established sex educators, clinicians, and pleasure professionals seeking to brush up on their skills and knowledge with up-to-date language, information, and perspectives.

EDSE Sex Educator Certification

Title of Event: EDSE Sex Educator Certification

Description of Event:

EDSE’s Sex Educator Certification is packed with the expansive sexuality, health, and pleasure information you need to level-up your career, elevate your knowledge, and become a true change-maker. We welcome attendees of all experience levels and from any service-centered field, including established sex educators, clinicians, and pleasure professionals seeking to brush up on their skills and knowledge with up-to-date language, information, and perspectives.

Consent

Title of Event: Consent

Description of Event:

Participants will learn about consent negotiations through interactive game play and discussion. Participants will play Consent Bingo and Candy Consent, by Kristen Lilla, published in Unequal Partners by the Center for Sex Education.

Date of Event: Jan. 10, 2026

Time of Event: 5 pm

Location: Omaha, NE at Dundee Dell (in-person)

Sexuality Education (SE) Training:

Sexuality Reimagined: A SAR Exploring Systems, Stories, and Self

Title of Event:

Sexuality Reimagined: A SAR Exploring Systems, Stories, and Self

Description of Event:

Join Kristen Lilla LCSW, CST-S, CSE-S and Julie Labanz LPCC-S, CST, CST-S for this in-person SAR in Cincinnati, Ohio. This event is a general SAR that will count for folx earning CE's to become a sex therapist, educator, or counselor. It will also count as hours towards recertification. The SAR will cover a variety of content, as required by AASECT, including:

Applied Clinical Ethics in Sex Therapy Practice

Title of Event: Applied Clinical Ethics in Sex Therapy Practice

Description of Event:

Most ethics workshops have focuses primarily on the essential elements of risk management. While such concepts are clearly important, they represent only a fraction of what ethics and ethical practice should be about.  Indeed, most ethics workshops encourage sex therapists (and other healthcare practitioners) to think more like lawyers than as clinicians.

Pharmacology and Psychosexual Therapy

Title of Event: Pharmacology and Psychosexual Therapy

Description of Event:

This 3-hour hybrid course is designed for psychotherapists, sex therapists, and mental health clinicians seeking to integrate foundational pharmacological knowledge into psychosexual therapy. Psychotropic medications, hormonal therapies, and sexual function-related prescriptions can have significant effects—positive and negative—on sexual health, intimacy, and relationships.

Integrating Pelvic Floor Fundamentals Into Sex Therapy Practice: A Biopsychosocial Approach

Title of Event: Integrating Pelvic Floor Fundamentals Into Sex Therapy Practice: A Biopsychosocial Approach

Description of Event:

This 3-hour continuing education seminar introduces sex therapists to the essential role of the pelvic floor in sexual function and sexual pain. Blending anatomy, pain science, trauma- informed practice, and interprofessional collaboration, the course equips therapists with concrete skills to better assess, conceptualize, and treat clients with sexual pain or pelvic-floor–related sexual dysfunction.

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