Training Description

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.

Learning Objectives:

Define at least three foundational concepts commonly used within kink culture, including negotiation, aftercare, and risk awareness.

Identify at least two ways that practices from kink culture can support clearer communication, consent, and boundary-setting in sexual experiences.

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

Identify at least one kink-affirming resource that can be shared with clients or community members seeking additional education or support.

Meet the presenter:

Miranda Mulcrone, LCSW

Psychotherapist | Best Therapies

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.

Technical Information:

Best Therapies is committed to protecting the confidentiality and security of participant information. Information collected through registration, payment, attendance verification, course participation, evaluations, and continuing-education records will be used only for program administration, communication, regulatory compliance, and the issuance of continuing-education documentation. If you have questions, concerns, grievances, or accessibility needs, please contact Training Director Kai Korpak at [email protected]. Live trainings with Best Therapies are delivered through Zoom. Participants must have access to an updated version of Zoom, a reliable internet connection, and working audio. Best Therapies is approved as a Registered Social Work Continuing Education Sponsor by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. Sponsor License No. 159.001548; expiration date: November 30, 2027.