Featuring over 60 of the field’s top innovators and a community of thousands of your colleagues from around the world — the Symposium offers the latest advances in the field and a range of possibilities to bring fresh, impactful ideas to your practice.  

This is a unique space that opens the door to relevant conversations about what it means to be a therapist in these times — and encourages you to have the most fun you’ve ever had at a professional conference, whether you join us online or in person. Plus, you’ll earn up to a year’s worth of CE hours! 

I’ll be presenting two workshops at the 2022 Symposium:

F*ck Binaries: Liberating the Clinical Imagination (co-presented with Emily Nagoski, PhD) [209, Friday Morning, 3/11/22] What would happen if we thought of our work as helping clients imagine into the radical and transformative possibilities of their being and their relationships, rather than merely “resolving problems”? How might our work shift toward liberation and pleasure, rather than merely resolving distress and pain? In this workshop, we’ll discuss how we can expand our imaginations as therapists—and help our clients dream of horizons beyond what queer theorist José Esteban Muñoz called the “prison house” of the here-and-now.

Eroticism Beyond Binaries: Re-Visioning Sex Therapy [517, Saturday Afternoon, 3/12/22] While many of us grow up steeped in toxic narratives about how bodies are “supposed to” function and how we “should” experience pleasure, these narratives pose particular problems for trans and nonbinary folx because they ignore the diverse and radical possibilities of trans erotic embodiments. The writer Xan West suggested that gender can be an “elaborate sex toy.” Learn how to support clients in using that toy with confidence and moving toward embodied ecstasy. This interactive workshop will provide participants with “Intimate Justice”-informed tools to enliven clinical practice and engage clients—cis and trans alike!—in "re-visioning” their embodied erotic selves.