Pleasure enhancement skills

Title of Event: Practicing Pleasure: An Anatomical Guide to Clitoral/Vulval Arousal

Description of Event:

This class is designed for anyone looking to enhance their relationship with sexual arousal through a better understanding of the vulva’s erectile network. If you are a sexual or mental health clinician, this course will provide the tools you need to empower clients on their journey toward sexual satisfaction.

Location: Online Asynchronous

Presenter/Speaker: Julie L Miller, LCMFT, CST

Contact Name: Julie Miller

Title of Event: Asexual Pleasure: Beyond the 5 Senses

Description of Event:

What is pleasure when it isn’t centered on sex?

This training expands conventional understandings of pleasure by exploring sensory experience beyond the “basic five senses,” offering a framework that is inclusive of Asexuality, Neurodiversity, Disability, and diverse relationships to embodiment.

Title of Event: Sexual Attitudes Reassessment (SAR) Virtual - A Two Day Workshop

Description of Event:

Title of Event: Practicing Pleasure: An Anatomical Guide to Clitoral/Vulval Arousal

Description of Event:

This class is designed for anyone looking to enhance their relationship with sexual arousal through a better understanding of the vulva’s erectile network. If you are a sexual or mental health clinician, this course will provide the tools you need to empower clients on their journey toward sexual satisfaction.

Date of Event: May 21st

Location: Online Asynchronous

Presenter/Speaker: Julie L Miller, LCMFT, CST

Contact Name: Julie Miller

Title of Event: Experienced Practitioner Sex Coach Training Program

Description of Event:

The Experienced Practitioner Track provides a flexible, self-directed pathway to Certified Sex Coach™ certification for licensed and credentialed professionals with established clinical or coaching experience, including therapists, counselors, psychologists, ICF Certified Coaches, and healthcare providers actively working in sexuality-related fields.

Title of Event: Mastery Sex Coach Training Program

Description of Event:

The Mastery Sex Coach Training Program offers comprehensive preparation for professionals seeking to launch or enhance their careers as Certified Sex Coaches™. As the original sex coaching certification training course, Sex Coach U provides an integrative 18-month curriculum combining self-paced learning with regular live sessions and personalized mentorship.

Title of Workshop: Sex Therapy Certificate at CIIS

Date: Fall 2026 running for five weekends of instruction between September 18 – December 5, 2026; Priority Deadline & Scholarship Deadline June 30; Final Deadline July 31

Location Synchronous hours online via Zoom; Asynchronous hours online

Core Knowledge Area(s): 165 hours of content meeting all CKA requirements

Presenters: Zoe & Walt Sipe, Fiona O’Farrell, Estefania Smich, Juan Camarena, Bianca Laureano, Damon Constantinides

Sponsor: CIIS

Contact Name: Kyle De Medio            

Title of Workshop: Case Consults

Date: December 10, 2026

Location: Online synchronous

Sex Therapist Training:

Title of Event: Certificate Program in Sexual Orientation & Sexuality Education: The Pedagogy of Pride, Parades, and Protests

Description of Event:

Title of Event: Advanced Sensate Focus Intervention

Date of Event: June 4, 2027

Time of Event: 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. PT (includes three 10-min. breaks)

Location: Online Synchronous

This course covers the following AASECT Sex Therapy Training skills:
C. Theory and methods of approach to intervention in relationship systems experiencing sex and intimacy problems. (Need 16 hours couples-specific training)

Presenter/Speaker: Paula Leach

Contact Name: Anne Hodder-Shipp, CSE

Contact Telephone Number: (310) 721-4810