This continuing education presentation explores the hierarchy of sex work and its impact on mental health, identity, access to care, and therapeutic engagement. Participants will examine how moral judgment, respectability politics, and clinician bias can influence assessment, diagnosis, and treatment outcomes. The course emphasizes culturally responsive, trauma-informed, and nonjudgmental approaches to care across the full spectrum of sex work, including digital and in-person labor.
Designed for mental health clinicians, this training provides practical frameworks for reducing stigma, increasing clinical competence, and offering equitable, affirming care to individuals engaged in sex work at all levels of the industry.
Meet your facilitator
(She/Her)
With a dual background in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and a Master of Arts in Teaching, Rachel brings a sophisticated pedagogical approach to trauma-informed CE training. She specializes in the intersection of intimacy, sex-positivity, and neurodivergence, equipping clinicians with evidence-based frameworks to support LGBTQIA+ clients and alternative relationship structures through a lens of clinical excellence.