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Diversities in sexual expression and lifestyles

Queerplatonic: Constructing Intentional Kinship

Title of Event: Queerplatonic: Constructing Intentional Kinship

Description of Event:

​Join us to explore how people build meaningful, committed relationships outside of romantic and sexual scripts. Grounded in asexual and aromantic community language, this session introduces queerplatonic relationships, platonic life partners, and related terms as tools for naming significant, life-shaping bonds without centering romance.

Clinical Perspectives on Kink: Bias, Myths & Meaning Making

Title of Event: Clinical Perspectives on Kink: Bias, Myths & Meaning Making

Description of Event:

This workshop serves as an essential reorientation for clinicians, educators, and care providers working with individuals who practice or identify with kink. Kink refers to consensual sexual interests, fantasies, behaviors, or relational dynamics that fall outside culturally normative sexual practices, yet do not inherently involve distress, impairment, or non-consent.

Somatic-Concentric Sex Therapy Training for Couples Therapy & Intimate Relationships

Title of Event: Somatic-Concentric Sex Therapy Training for Couples Therapy & Intimate Relationships

Description of Event:

My next S-CST For Couples Therapy is happening in Lafayette, Colorado March 27th - 29th. It will be springtime in Colorado!

The Somatic-Concentric Sex Therapy for Couples Therapy training that I offer is based on my book Whole-Body Sex and my upcoming book on embodied intimacy and offers the skills, interventions, and assessment frameworks for therapists to incorporate into their practice with their own clinical style.

Aesthetic Attraction: How Ace and Aro Folx Shatter the Mold

Title of Event: Aesthetic Attraction: How Ace and Aro Folx Shatter the Mold

Description of Event:

This workshop explores Aesthetic Attraction, Aesthetic Intimacy, and embodied Aesthetic Pleasure, moving beyond a narrow focus on visual beauty or sexualization. We will examine how aesthetics can include appearance, style, movement, voice, scent, texture, and atmosphere, and how these elements function as meaningful experiences without requiring sexual or romantic intent.

Understanding ENM: Mononormativity in Therapy & Sex Ed

Title of Event: Understanding ENM: Mononormativity in Therapy & Sex Ed

Description of Event:

Just in time for Valentine's Day! In this workshop, we will explore the presence of mononormativity (assumption of and defaulting to monogamous values) within the therapeutic and sexuality education spaces. Participants will be invited to explore the impact of mononormativity on non-monogamous clients and students and how to best support more inclusive lenses and practices.

Date of Event: 2/12/26

Time of Event: 6:30-8:00 PM EST

Location: Online Synchronous

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