Inclusive Education for Mental Health Professionals

Trauma, sexuality, relationships, neurodivergence, and the somatic and altered-state work that ties them together. Proudly queer, trans, and neurodiversity-affirming, with roots in the kink and non-monogamous communities.

Learn to support clients with expansive identities

You already know how to sit with people through the hardest parts of their lives. But most of us left grad school with a single course in human sexuality and very little on relationship diversity, neurodivergence, or the body-based work that trauma often calls for. When a client's gender, relationships, or wiring didn't match the textbook, we were left to figure it out alone.

Expansive Education gives you the specific knowledge and clinical tools to work with LGBTQIA+, kinky, non-monogamous, and neurodivergent clients, and the somatic and altered-state approaches that help with trauma for anyone on your caseload.

Our foundation is somatic parts work and altered states, including clinical hypnosis and psychedelic care. Trauma therapists, curious generalists, and clinicians adding hypnosis or psychedelic integration to their work will also find courses that change how they work with the clients they already see.

Providing live and on-demand CE exploring:

  • Trauma and Somatic Therapy

  • Attachment and Parts Work

  • Relationship Therapy, Including Non-Monogamy

  • Gender, Sexuality, and Relationship Diversity (GSRD)

  • Neurodiversity-Affirming Care

  • Clinical Hypnosis and Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapy

  • Practice Development

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Feedback from our students

"I highly recommend these trainings. They are very informative, put on by people with knowledge and lived experience, and are just overall great." - Addie Baldowski, LMHC

"There was so much that was useful - the general overview of different types of kink, the concept of processing trauma through sex, the many ways of practicing consent."

"As a leader in my local kink community I feel like this was very helpful for my role and will definitely be helpful in my career later."

"It was incredible. I honestly felt myself spacing out because the content was SO personal and applicable to my own life and trauma that I need some time to process it. A lot of huge realizations for me personally." - Jesse Lyon, LMHC

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Start with a free resource: The Disclosure Moment: What to Say (And Not Say) When Clients Share Kink Identities

Enhance your clinical skills with this comprehensive guide addressing one of the most challenging moments in therapy: when clients disclose their involvement in kink, BDSM, or alternative relationship structures. This professional resource provides evidence-informed approaches for responding to kink identity disclosures in ways that strengthen the therapeutic alliance rather than damaging it.

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Upcoming Live Events

  • Oct 20 at 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM UTC

FEARapy: Facing Our Monsters Through Horror Media

  • Zoom
  • $40 or 2 monthly payments of $20

A 60-minute virtual session on using horror media intentionally to process fear, grief, and resilience. For clinicians, educators, and anyone who works with people through story. Includes a practical framework, real examples, and live Q&A. Presented by Addie Baldowski, PhD, CGT, LMHC-QS

  • Oct 16 at 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM UTC

Perimenopause in the Therapy Room: Hormones, Mood, and Relationships (IN PERSON)

  • Winter Park
  • $50

Perimenopause changes how your clients think, feel, and connect, and most of it lands in your office looking like burnout, anxiety, or a relationship coming apart. Join Dr. Mariah Plociniak, LMFT for a 90 minute lunch and learn on what’s happening physiologically, how to tell it apart from a psychosocial stress response, and how to work with it in individual and couples sessions.

  • Ended Sep 25 at 5:30 PM UTC

The Synergy of Healing: An Integrative Experience for Helpers and Healers

  • Zoom
  • $50 or 2 monthly payments of $25
  • 90-day access

You know the person who keeps telling the same story — different appointment, same pattern, nothing underneath it actually shifting. This workshop introduces a whole-person wellness model: physical, mental, energetic, relational, and other interconnected realms that are available to explore when the usual approach just isn’t working. Built for clinicians, healers, and helping professionals of every kind.

  • Nov 6 at 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM UTC

Trauma Work with Kink-Involved Clients

  • Zoom
  • $50 or 2 monthly payments of $25
  • 90-day access

This two-hour training is for trauma clinicians who want to work well with kink-involved clients: trauma responses vs. altered states, consensual power exchange vs. an abusive relationship, and what to say when a client tells you something new. Some familiarity with kink is helpful but no prior experience is required. A glossary of terms and resource list are provided.

Self-Paced Courses

Foundations of Private Practice

  • Free

Introduction to Cyber Security in Private Practice - Presented by Creative Cyber Management, LLC

  • Bundle
  • 2 Items

This series, presented by Burton Maben of Creative Cyber Management, LLC, teaches therapists in private practice to better understand their cybersecurity needs. We cover HIPAA compliance considerations, the use of AI, and other special topics, to help you understand your tech, increase compliance, and reduce risk. Signing up for this bundle (free) will give you access to all classes in the series.

Understanding Diverse Sexuality

  • $65

Understanding Age Play and Adult Babies: An Introduction for Helping Professionals

  • Course
  • 11 Lessons
  • 90-day access

In this course, we will explore the intricacies of age-based roleplaying, also known as ageplay. This practice involves consenting adults engaging in personas that do not align with their chronological age. We will examine how misunderstandings can lead to these individuals being mischaracterized or perceived of as dangerous by professionals, and how to approach such clients with security and understanding.

  • $75

Understanding Kink And BDSM

  • Course
  • 5 Lessons
  • 90-day access

In this 3-hour exploration we will examine definitions and delight alike, looking into the array of interests our clients might have and how we can support them wherever they might be in their journey. These interests can include bondage, discipline, dominance, submission, sadism, masochism, fetishes, voyeurism... and so much more.

  • $65

Understanding Power Exchange and Dominant/submissive Relationships: An Introduction for Helping Professionals

  • Course
  • 13 Lessons
  • 90-day access

In this course we will learn common terms used to describe Dominant/submissive and leader/follower relationship systems and structures. Using the Contextualized Power Model, we will break down the array of relationship shapes that get called “authority transfer” or “power exchange,” as well as noting where power imbalances in culture can affect these relationships.

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