What If My Yuck is Your Yum?
Learn how to help couples navigate kink–vanilla differences with curiosity, compassion, and practical tools. This training introduces kink-affirming sex therapy skills and the SPRINKLES framework to support partners in exploring sexual differences safely, reducing shame, and strengthening connection.
Led by Kristin B. Hodson, LCSW, CST, this session equips clinicians with strategies to normalize diverse sexual expression and enhance relational and sexual well-being.
Learning Objectives
Differentiate kink from pathology and utilize non-judgmental frameworks to assess sexual interests.
Apply relational and systemic tools to help couples/partners navigate kink–vanilla differences.
Integrate kink-affirming interventions into treatment planning to enhance sexual health and relational wellbeing.
AASECT CKA:
E: Intimacy skills (e.g., social, emotional, sexual), intimate relationships, interpersonal relationships and family dynamics.
F: Diversities in sexual expression and lifestyles including, but not limited to, polyamory, swinging, BDSM and tantra.
I: Range of sexual functioning and behavior, from optimal to problematic including, but not limited to, common issues such as: desire discrepancy, lack of desire, difficulty achieving or maintaining arousal, sexual pain, penetration problems and difficulty with orgasm.
AASECT ST:
C: Intervention theory/methods in relationship systems
