Kink-Informed Practice: Core Concepts & Clinical Translation

Title of Event: Kink-Informed Practice: Core Concepts & Clinical Translation

Description of Event:

Kink shows up in therapy rooms, coaching calls, and educational spaces—yet many professionals feel unsure about language, frameworks, and best-practice approaches for discussing it. This 4-hour virtual training supports professionals moving from curiosity to competence through a structured “Kink-Informed” foundation. Participants will learn core principles of negotiation (needs, limits, boundaries, and aftercare planning), explore how power exchange operates across roles and relationship dynamics, and examine “energy exchange” as a useful lens for understanding arousal, intensity, nervous system activation, and meaning-making during scenes.

We’ll also focus on clinical translation: how to ask better questions, identify common client concerns (shame, conflict, disclosure, safety, mismatched desire, consent injuries), and integrate a non-pathologizing approach into intake, assessment, and ongoing care. The training ends with a moderated elder panel featuring long-time kink community members sharing lived experience, community norms, and practical takeaways—helping participants understand how culture and context shape safety, communication, and accountability.

Accessibility: This workshop will be recorded with closed captions.

AASECT Learning Objectives

• By the end of this training, participants will be able to:
• Identify at least 4 core components of a kink negotiation conversation (e.g., desires, limits, boundaries, aftercare) and apply them to a client vignette.
• Differentiate at least 3 forms of power exchange (role, protocol, authority transfer) and describe clinical considerations for each.
• Demonstrate a brief, scripted intake inquiry using kink-affirming language that reduces stigma and supports informed consent.
• List at least 5 common clinical themes related to kink (e.g., shame, disclosure, consent injury, mismatch, trauma triggers) and map each to a supportive intervention or referral decision.

Date of Event: 04/11/2026

Time of Event: 12pm est

Location: Online Synchronous

Sex Therapy (ST) Training
ST5. Principles of consultation, collaboration and referral.

Presenter/Speaker: Marla Renee Stewart & The Kink Collective

Company/Organization Sponsor: Velvet Lips LLC

Contact Name: Marla Stewart

Contact Telephone Number: (415) 871-1255

Contact Email: marla@velvetlipssexed.com

Event Website: https://www.marlareneestewart.com/event-details/kink-informed-practice-core-concepts-clinical-translation

AASECT Approved CEs: 4