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:

1. Identify at least 4 core components of a kink negotiation conversation (e.g., desires, limits, boundaries, aftercare) and apply them to a client vignette.
2. Differentiate at least 3 forms of power exchange (role, protocol, authority transfer) and describe clinical considerations for each.
3. Demonstrate a brief, scripted intake inquiry using kink-affirming language that reduces stigma and supports informed consent.
4. 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.

CKA: F, I, O

This program meets the requirements of the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) and is approved for 4 CE credits. These CE credits may be applied toward AASECT certification and renewal of certification.

Completion of this program does not ensure or guarantee AASECT certification. For further information please contact info@aasect.org.

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