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This training provides a brief overview of kink culture and key kink-related concepts, with a focus on how kink-informed practices can enhance clients' sexual experiences across relationship styles. Participants will explore ways kink-informed practices and frameworks can decrease shame, strengthen consent, reduce rape culture, and increase awareness and communication of expectations, limits, boundaries, and desires. The training will also introduce resources clinicians can share with clients in therapeutic settings.

Presenter: Miranda Mulcrone, LCSW

Miranda Mulcrone (she/her) is an LCSW therapist and supervisor who has been practicing for seven years. Miranda enjoys working with teens and adults on issues such as trauma, anxiety, disordered eating, stress, and sexuality. Miranda earned her Master of Social Work from Washington University in St. Louis where she concentrated in violence and injury prevention and received a certification in sexual health and education. In her free time, Miranda loves completing jigsaw puzzles, watching reality tv, and petting as many dogs as she can.

Learning Objectives

Learning Objective #1

Define at least three foundational concepts commonly used within kink culture, (including negotiation, aftercare, and risk awareness )and at least two ways that practices from kink culture can support clearer communication, consent, and boundary-setting in sexual experiences.

Learning Objective #2

Describe how kink-informed approaches can promote pleasure, agency, and sexual self-awareness across a range of relationships and identities.

Learning Objective #3