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Embracing Every Identity

Embracing Expansive Identities - Diversity in Gender, Sexuality, and Relationship Structure

We're here to help you navigate this exciting journey with confidence and compassion. Self-help and professional trainings designed by professional counselors and experienced educators. Proudly queer, kink, nonmonogamy, and neurodiversity-affirming.

Gender Identity and Expression

Exploring new dimensions of your gender identity or expression can be both thrilling and daunting. We provide a nurturing and affirming space for individuals of all genders to discover and express their authentic selves. Topics include:

  • Discovering and embracing your gender identity for the first time

  • Celebrating existing identities and building community

  • Seeking new ways to express your gender

Sexuality Orientation and Desire

Are you exploring new dimensions of your sexual identity or desires? Celebrating and supporting you in areas such as:

  • Coming out and exploring your sexual orientation

  • Identifying as part of the LGBTQ+ community

  • Exploring kink, BDSM, or other forms of sexual expression

Relationship Structure and Strategies for Connection

Are you considering opening the door of your relationship to allow others in? Are you feeling nervous about making that change and how it might impact your current relationship(s)?

We offer a supportive space for individuals, couples, triads, quads, polycules (and more) exploring nonmonogamous relationships. Topics include:

  • Opening up your relationship for the first time

  • Communication within existing nonmonogamous relationships

  • Healing attachment wounding and building secure connections

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Professional Training

Learn to effectively provide support for clients with expansive identities

You know the profound impact of your work. You’re there for your clients through their toughest times, helping them navigate the complexities of life and relationships. But when it comes to working with gender, sexuality, and relationship diverse clients, the foundation laid by the education you received in graduate school - often a single course in human sexuality - can feel insufficient.

Imagine the difference you could make with specialized training in this crucial area. Investing in continuing education tailored to the needs of LGBTQ+, nonmonogamous, and kinky clients equips you with the nuanced understanding and skills to support these communities more effectively.

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Upcoming Events and Webinars

  • Jul 31 at 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM UTC

Who Wants to Be a Psychedelic Practitioner?

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

The psychedelic field is moving fast, and choosing a path into it is a real investment. This 90-minute live webinar is the conversation that should come first: an honest map of the field and available practitioner pathways, as well as a guided discernment process to help you find your fit. For therapists, helpers, and curious humans. CEs available for Florida therapists.
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Self-Paced Courses

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.
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  • $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.
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  • $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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