Sex Therapy w/Erotically Marginalized Clients:
Nine Principles of Clinical Support
A live Zoom training with Shannon Sennott, LICSW (she/her) and Davis Chandler, LICSW (they/them)
May 5th, 2023 | 1:00 - 4:15pm EST | On Zoom (not recorded)
This training provides an affirmative framework for working clinically with erotically marginalized clients in a psychotherapy or sex therapy setting. The term erotically marginalized describes people who are at risk of being pathologized and oppressed both outside and inside the clinical setting due to their sexual identities, orientations and practices. This can include those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, asexual, demisexual, queer, trans and gender nonconforming, nonbinary, intersex, polyamorous, consensually non-monogamous, kinky, BDSM practitioners or who have alternative relationship and sexual structures in general.
This course will explore the questions: How do power and privilege play out inside and outside the therapeutic space? In what ways is the work influenced by the clinician’s own identities and/or experiences? How do we address these items to provide affirmative sex therapy with erotically marginalized clients?
ABOUT THE PRESENTERS:
Shannon L. Sennott, LICSW, CST (she/her) is the co-founder of Translate Gender, Inc. and the Center for Psychotherapy and Social Justice, she was clinically trained at the Smith College School for Social Work and the Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society in New York City, and is an AASECT certified sex therapist. Shannon is an adjunct faculty member at the Smith College School for Social Work, teaching family theory and sex theory, as well as, maintains a full time private practice at the Center for Psychotherapy and Social Justice in Northampton, Massachusetts. Shannon utilizes a transfeminist therapeutic approach in her work with individuals, adolescents, and families, her interests extend to working with couples, consensually non-monogamous and polyamorous relationships, and groups, and she especially enjoys working with those in alternative family structures. Her clinical orientation is influenced by both narrative therapy and dialogic practice traditions. Shannon's published paper in Women and Therapy Journal, introduces her transfeminist therapeutic approach, Gender Disorder as Gender Oppression: A Transfeminist Approach to Rethinking the Pathologization of Gender Nonconformity. More recently, Shannon delivered the keynote for the Ackerman Institute for the Family annual conference in 2018 and she is enjoying clinically supervising and training other clinicians, institutions, and organizations in their work with erotically marginalized people. Her recent publication with Routledge Books is titled, Sex Therapy with Erotically Marginalized Clients: Nine Principles of Clinical Support.
Davis Chandler, LICSW (they/them) was clinically trained at the Smith School for Social and graduated in 2011.Their clinical work exclusively serves erotically marginalized communities – queer, trans, nonbinary, poly and kink identified clients, families and relationships. Their areas of interest include: nonbinary and trans identities, alternative family structures, issues concerning sexuality or sexual practices, queer family building, fertility issues, trauma, grief and loss. The models they operate from are: abolitionist, social justice, anti-oppression, intersectional, transfeminist, dialogic and relational. The heart of their work is social justice/decolonization and it is their mission to disrupt and resist white supremacy, patriarchy, cissexism, ableism, heterosexism, fatphobia and all systems of oppression.