7 Group Supervision Hours
(No CE Credit available – Supervision Hours Only)

This session will take place live/synchronously and will not be recorded. Open exclusively to members who are already under contract with a supervisor prior to registration.

Presenters

Neil “Nelly” Cannon, PhD, LMFT, CST, CST-S

Kimberly Castelo, LMFT-S and CST-S, CEFT-T  (she/her/hers)

Mesha Ellis, PhD, CST  (she/her/hers)

Aleece Fosnight, MSPAS, PA-C, CSC-S, CSE, NCMP, IF  (she/her/hers)

About this session

This is a virtual supervision session that offers clinical supervision in sex therapy and sexuality counseling. Group Supervision at the annual PreCon is a long-held AASECT Tradition. The aim is to provide folx on the certification path with an amazing, affordable and accessible supervision experience with some of our most senior AASECT Certified Supervisors. There are two scholarship spots available (see below).

The group supervision session is small and intimate. Space is limited to eight (8) supervisees who will be supported by four (4) AASECT Certified Supervisors (3 CST-S and 1 CSC-S). Each supervisor was carefully selected based on their safe and welcoming style, along with their unique specialties and vast experience. In addition to staffing specific cases, the supervisors will also provide you with processes and practical tools that will be available to you for a lifetime.

The supervisors have a broad variety of expertise covering a wide range of presenting concerns, including:

• Sexual desire discrepancy and libido issues
• Sexual functioning, pelvic pain and pleasure for penis and vulva owners from a medical, relational, and psychotherapy perspective
• Kink, BDSM & Fetishes
• Out of Control Sexual Behavior (OCSB)
• Ethical Non-Monogamy
• Transgender Non-Binary
• Care for LGBTQI+
• Couples counseling for sex therapy clients
• Infidelity and betrayal
• Trauma, abuse & bullying
• Zoophilia & Bestiality
• The above list are examples of the supervisor’s specialties. Let us help you with your most complex case.

Cost – $390 ($55 per hour)

Counts for 7 hours of group supervision (These hours do not count toward the maximum number of 6 supervision hours one is limited to in any given month).

Eligibility

Prior to registration, participants must already have an AASECT Supervisor and be on a path toward certification.

Registration

To register please send an email to: conference@aasect.org. After your registration has been accepted, you will receive a supervision contract, a case consult form, and additional information from Dr. Cannon’s Practice Manager, Kashmira Pearcy.

DEI and Financial Need Scholarship Criteria

One of the two scholarships is available to a Black, Indigenous, or Person of Color (BIPOC). The second scholarship will be awarded based on financial need. Those interested in applying to the scholarship must meet the following criteria:

Prior to applying, participants must already be an AASECT Member in good standing, have an AASECT Supervisor, and be on a path toward certification.

Scholarship Funding

In an effort to create more opportunities and access to AASECT Certification, the supervisors have waived their honorarium for this event.

Scholarship Application

To apply please submit a personal statement up to 500 words, based on the criteria outlined above and include your commitment to pursuing a career in the field of human sexuality, sexuality education, sexuality counseling, sex therapy, sex research, or sexual health. Please submit your personal statement to conference@aasect.org. Incomplete or partial applications will not be accepted. The recipients of both scholarships will be confidential unless the recipients ask for the award to be announced. The deadline for applications for this scholarship is March 31, 2023.

This session will take place live/synchronously and will not be recorded.

Presenter

Midori  (she/her)

About this session

Midori is excited to share a new virtual education process and tool she developed in 2022.

First section: Using reinterpreted D&D strategies, this class helps people play more creatively, authentically, and fluidly in BDSM, while eschewing limiting beliefs, stereotypes, and misogyny often perpetuated in kink education.

Second section: Reframing BDSM terms, centering on recreational motives and use of Midori’s Appetite Grid.

Third section: Sharing curriculum development challenges and Q&A

CE Credit

4 AASECT CE Credits (AASECT CE Credits Only)

Pricing

Member – $250

Non-member – $300

Student Member – $200

Non-member Student – $225

We often talk about changes in desire, arousal, and libido. As our lives and bodies change, what does it mean to reconnect to yourself? In this session, join esteemed panelists in a skill-sharing conversation about the connection between our nervous systems and our erotic potential. Attendees will also leave with actionable techniques to practice pleasure as a grounding force in transitions.

Meet Your Presenters

Kiana Reeves is an AASECT-certified somatic sex educator, certified sexological bodyworker, pelvic health practitioner, certified doula, and Foria’s Chief Content Officer. With a lifelong passion for sexual wellness and plant-based medicine, Kiana has been practicing in the field of sexual wellness and female reproductive health for over 10 years. Kiana believes sex is an essential part of wellbeing, and offers a holistic perspective – bridging the topics of wellness, sex, birth, intimacy, and the universal experiences that women and people with vulvas go through during their lifespan.

Dr. Lyndsey Harper is a Board Certified Ob/Gyn, Associate Professor of Ob/Gyn for Texas A&M COM, a Fellow of The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and a Fellow of the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health. Dr. Harper is the founder and CEO of Rosy, a women’s health technology company that connects women who have sexual health concerns with hope, community, and research-backed solutions. She has been named Forbes Top 53 Women Disrupting Healthcare, People Newspapers’ 20 Under 40, a Top Innovator in North Texas for 2020 and a DBJ Top Woman in Tech.

Rachel Wright is a psychotherapist focusing on modern relationships and sex. With a Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology, Rachel has worked with thousands of humans worldwide, helping them scream less and screw more. She has brought her message to stages across the globe, was SHAPE Magazine’s Sex + Relationships Coach, and created the virtual workshop series What You Wish You Learned in School: Sex Ed and is currently one of mindbodygreen’s article review experts.

CE Credit

CE credit is not offered for this session.

This session will take place live/synchronously and will not be recorded.

Are you transgender and/or gender diverse (nonbinary, genderqueer, genderfluid, bigender, etc.) or gender questioning? If yes, this is the SIG for you! Join us for collaboration, peer support, resource sharing, and a touch of activism. Our virtual Spirit Week space welcomes existing SIG members and new prospective members, alongside our allies. For more ongoing connection to our SIG, email gendersig@aasect.org. Looking forward to meeting you!

– Phoenix Mandel

CE Credit

Special Interest Group participation does not count toward CE credit.

Registration

This is a members-only event and registration is not required.

This session will take place live/synchronously and will not be recorded.

Presenter

Zelaika S. Hepworth Clarke MSW, MEd, PhD  (they/them; zie/zir; she/her)

About this session

African-centered sex therapy utilizes African-centered psychologies, pre-colonial African erotic wisdom, sexual epistemology, ontology, and spiritual systems to inform our understanding of human sexual behavior and sexual healing. This presentation will explore African-Centered therapeutic approaches, theories, and models that can be used in sex therapy to promote sexual wellness and liberation as well as African-centered pedagogies. Osunality or African Eroticism and sensualities will be highlighted containing rich constructs, narratives, and frameworks which can be an opportunity for sexuality professionals to increase their sexual multi epistemic literacy and critical thinking.

CE Credit

4 AASECT CE Credits (AASECT CE Credits Only)

Pricing

Member – $250

Non-member – $300

Student Member – $200

Non-member Student – $225

“This SIG is for all sexuality educators, or people who consider sexuality education as part of their career description, who want to be a part of a community of other educators. This SIG will provide support, share resources, learn from each other’s experiences and wisdom, discuss the issues that are important to us as educators, emphasize the importance of our work, and create a voice that defines our roles separately from therapists and counselors.”

– Margo M. Maes
SexEDUSIG@aasect.org

CE Credit

Special Interest Group participation does not count toward CE credit.

Registration

This is a members-only event and registration is not required.

Presenter

Davondra I. Brown

Interested in becoming an AASECT CE Provider? Join CE Chair, Israel Martinez, for an informative session on the process.

SIG Leaders: Brian Gibney and Michelle Renee

The Somatic Sexuality Professional (SSP) special interest group seeks to create a space for professionals who utilize intimate touch in their practice. These professionals may include, but are not limited to: surrogate partners, somatic sex educators, clinical sexologists, and cuddilists.

The goals of this SIG are to:

• Create open dialogue among SSPs in order to discuss professional and ethical boundaries or each modality, especially with respect to work that intersects with other AASECT professionals.
• Provide education to the larger therapeutic community regarding the theory, practice, and professional and ethical boundaries of various somatic sexuality professions.
• Aid in informed policymaking with respect to the collaborative practice between SSPs and the broader therapeutic community.

CE Credit

Special Interest Group participation does not count toward CE credit.

Registration

This is a members-only event and registration is not required.

Organizational update from AASECT Leadership.

This session will take place live/synchronously and will not be recorded.

Presenter

B Lourenco MA, LMHC  (she/her)

About this session

In the last few years, people have been making incredible discoveries about themselves, including the possibility that they may be Autistic: suddenly, so many things that didn’t make sense are now aligning, including differences in sex and relationships.

Learn how the Neurodiversity Affirming Paradigm shifts away from the stigmatizing medical model and allows for the self-identification of Autism, which has encouraged and allowed Autistic people to relate and connect with each other in ways that they previously could not.

CE Credit

4 AASECT CE Credits (AASECT CE Credits Only)

Pricing

Member – $250

Non-member – $300

Student Member – $200

Non-member Student – $225

Tune into the virtual awards ceremony to honor the best and brightest in the field of sexuality! Meet the 2023 Honorees.

This session will take place live/synchronously and will not be recorded.

Presenter

Eric Garrison MAEd, DipLSHTM, CSC-S, FRSPH  (he/him/Eric)

About this session

As Sex Counseling – both in and outside of AASECT – continues to grow and as AASECT’s counselor certification applicant list expands to include not only medical and public health professionals, but also leaders in our religious communities vis-à-vis pastoral counseling, the need for a model that focuses on counseling (providing formal sexual health advice versus sex education or sex therapy) is apparent.

This workshop, open to all, will not only provide the history and structure of the PICARD model, but it will invite participants to move through its stages using case studies and roleplays as well as to see its various applications through a “Be IDEAL Justice” lens. Afterall, the model was created on one side of the proverbial Pond and refined ten years later on the other – all by engaging caring members of multiple, intersectional professional communities and their constituents.

CE Credit

4 AASECT CE Credits (AASECT CE Credits Only)

Pricing

Member – $250

Non-member – $300

Student Member – $200

Non-member Student – $225

About this event

From proposals to publishing, an overview of publishing a book with Erin Martinez, author of Sex, Social Justice and Intimacy in Mental Health Practice. Participants can also get insider tips on publishing in peer-review journals from Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Feminist Family Therapy!

The discussion will take place live/synchronously and will not be recorded.

Presenters

Dr. Kristina S. Brown, LMFT, (she/her) is a Professor and Chair of the Couple and Family Therapy Department at Adler University which offers a COAMFTE-accredited MA and PhD in Couple and Family Therapy as well as a Certificate in Sex Therapy. Dr. Brown earned her PhD from Syracuse University and her MA from the University of San Diego both in marriage and family therapy. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Feminist Family Therapy and Editor of the upcoming AAMFT Systemic Ethics Textbook. 

Erin Martinez has worked in the social work field for more than 25 years. She has worked in residential treatment, shelter services, community-based services, and outpatient mental health services over the course of her career. She has worked with populations that are survivors of sexual and interpersonal violence as well as those who have perpetrated this violence towards others. Her training throughout her career has centered around trauma-informed, holistic interventions that incorporate the mind-body-spirit. She is an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist and EMDR Certified Clinician. Throughout her career she has worked from a lens of attachment informed care to provide empowering and healing relationships with clients.

Currently, Erin is a full-time clinician based in Dearborn, Michigan serving individuals and couples. She is also is faculty at the University of Michigan School of Social Work. She is the author of Sex, Social Justice and Intimacy in Mental Health Practice (Routledge Publishers, 2023). Most importantly, humbled and inspired by the beautiful people that she has had the opportunity to work with over 25 years. “I learn more than I teach, but I know that in the space between us there is hope, growth, tools, deep breaths, and the experience of truly being seen and known.”

CE Credit

This discussion is not eligible for CE credit.