Equitable Care Certification

~NEW DATE~ In this workshop, we’re talking about financial trauma + financial anxiety in sex workers through a trauma-informed, culturally responsive, sex work-affirming lens. We’ll cover what it can look like clinically (compulsive spending, avoidance, panic, shame spirals, dissociation around money), why it makes sense, and how to intervene without reinforcing harm. You’ll leave with practical tools you can use immediately: financial narrative mapping, CBT strategies for money-related anxiety, and boundary-setting/communication practice—plus referral considerations and ethical guidance. Save this if you work with clients who carry money shame. Share with a colleague who wants to offer care that’s actually aligned. 🎤 Presented By: Stephanie Olano 📅 Saturday, July 18 from 4:00-6:00pm Eastern 📍 Zoom 🎟 Sign up here: https://lnkd.in/gAWuyJGH Accessibility: Zoom offers live captioning. If further accessibility tools are needed please let us know 2 AASECT CE’s available American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) 🎥 Can't make it to the workshop but still want the content? Feel free to sign up even if you can't attend and we will send you the recording!

July Featured Provider: Shawn Vee, LMSW, M.Ed. "Shawn is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) dedicated to advocacy for marginalized communities. Shawn creates inclusive, sex-positive environments for individuals and diverse relationships. Their work focuses on understanding the complexities faced by those involved in the commercial sex trade and the unique challenges within sexually marginalized communities. By integrating trauma-informed and anti-oppression practices, Shawn empowers clients to explore their identities and desires, fostering healing and self-acceptance while addressing the urgent needs of vulnerable populations." Learn more about Shawn and reach out at https://lnkd.in/gsfm8yAR Looking for a sex work-affirming therapist? Check out our Provider Directory featuring vetted mental health and healing professionals! #ecc #providerdirectory #featuredprovider #therapist #equitablecare

JUNE FEATURED PROVIDER: Daniel Edwards "Hey there! I’m a Licensed Professional Counselor based in Georgia, working with individuals and relationship structures who are ready to dive into the messy, meaningful work of growth and healing. As a Black trans man, I intimately understand the challenges that can arise from intersecting identities and strive to create a safe and welcoming space for clients to explore their thoughts, emotions and aspirations." Learn more about Daniel and reach out here: https://lnkd.in/gjqtzxMt Looking for a sex work-affirming therapist? Check out our Provider Directory featuring vetted mental health and healing professionals! 👠 #ecc #providerdirectory #therapist

Sex History is a comprehensive journey through the global evolution of human sexuality, tracing its intersections with Culture, Money, Identity, BDSM/Kink, Literature and Science. This workshop moves beyond a Western-centric timeline, exploring historical sexual practices, the evolution of anatomical knowledge, and the origins of diverse sexual expressions across Asia, SWANA, Africa, South America and Europe. Participants will examine how religious institutions, political structures, and early medical paradigms defined, regulated, and sometimes celebrated sexual behaviors that are often misunderstood today. By investigating the historical roots of sex work, BDSM, non-monogamy, and the slow progression of clitoral anatomy in medical literature, attendees will gain a critical lens on how modern sexual norms were constructed. Designed for sexuality professionals, this session provides vital historical context to help deconstruct contemporary biases, reduce pathologization, and foster a more culturally and historically informed approach to sex education, counseling and therapy. 🎤 Presented By: Nishita Rao 📅 Saturday, June 27 from 4:00-6:00pm Eastern 📍 Zoom 🎟 Sign up here: https://lnkd.in/gAWuyJGH Accessibility: Zoom offers live captioning. If further accessibility tools are needed please let us know This program meets the requirements of the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) and is approved for 2 CE credits. These CE credits may be applied toward AASECT certification and renewal of certification. #aasect #continuingeducationcredits #ecc

Financial Trauma & Anxiety in SWers: In this workshop we’ll practice tools for financial anxiety + avoidance with a sex-work-affirming, trauma-informed lens. Save this if you work with clients who carry money shame. Share with a colleague who wants to offer care that’s actually aligned. 🎤 Presented By: Stephanie Olano 📅 Saturday, May 30 from 4:00-6:00pm Eastern 📍 Zoom 🎟 Sign up here: https://lnkd.in/gAWuyJGH Accessibility: Zoom offers live captioning. If further accessibility tools are needed please let us know 2 AASECT CE’s available American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) 🎥 Can't make it to the workshop but still want the content? Feel free to sign up even if you can't attend and we will send you the recording!

Mental health professionals: This is not your average certification. We are equipping a new era of clinicians. Enrolling in the Equitable Care Certification means expanding your knowledge around sex work, how sex workers come to the work, how trafficking & SW are different, why decrim is important, how the mental health industry does harm and strategies for competent care. P.S. the certification isn't only about sex workers either! By centering sex workers we create space to talk about a wide range of topics. Sign up here: https://lnkd.in/g3TtxDBE Enrollment Discount Codes: TRANSFORM for 10% off! BIPOC for 25% off #continuingeducation #AASECT #professionaldevelopment #ecc

MAY FEATURED PROVIDER: Stephanie Olano "Stephanie Olano, CEO and founder of TODOS Therapy, is a Latinx ADHD therapist, ADHD and autism assessor, and financial therapist based in the Bay Area, CA. She offers culturally sensitive mental health support to Latinx/BIPOC individuals dealing with impostor syndrome, anxiety, and burnout. Through TODOS Therapy, Stephanie helps clients accept and embrace their ADHD brain." Looking for a sex work-affirming therapist? Check out our Provider Directory featuring vetted mental health and healing professionals! https://lnkd.in/gCjZFbbR #ecc #therapistdirectory #featuredprovider #therapist #equitablecare

In this workshop, we’re talking about financial trauma + financial anxiety in sex workers through a trauma-informed, culturally responsive, sex work-affirming lens. We’ll cover what it can look like clinically (compulsive spending, avoidance, panic, shame spirals, dissociation around money), why it makes sense, and how to intervene without reinforcing harm. You’ll leave with practical tools you can use immediately: financial narrative mapping, CBT strategies for money-related anxiety, and boundary-setting/communication practice—plus referral considerations and ethical guidance. Save this if you work with clients who carry money shame. Share with a colleague who wants to offer care that’s actually aligned. 🎤 Presented By: Stephanie Olano 📅 Saturday, May 30 from 4:00-6:00pm Eastern 📍 Zoom 🎟 Sign up: https://lnkd.in/gAWuyJGH Accessibility: Zoom offers live captioning. If further accessibility tools are needed please let us know 2 AASECT CE’s available 🎥 Can't make it to the workshop but still want the content? Feel free to sign up even if you can't attend and we will send you the recording!

Aging Kinky AF reframes aging as erotic evolution—especially for Black, Brown, queer, disabled, and sex-working communities. We blend clinical insight, public health, and lived kink expertise to dismantle ageism and center pleasure as resistance. Attendees will learn adaptive strategies for desire, consent, and connection as bodies, roles, and needs shift across the lifespan. Through quick somatic check-ins, workbook prompts, and facilitated dialogue, we model kink-affirming, trauma-informed practice you can use with clients, partners, and communities right now. Participants will leave with language, tools, and a mini “Desire Intimacy Wellness Inventory™️” they can immediately implement in practice. 🎤 Presented By: Dr. Nicole Crawford & Jet Setting Jasmine 📅 Saturday, May 9 from 4:00-6:00pm Eastern 📍 Zoom 🎟 Sign Up: https://lnkd.in/gAWuyJGH Accessibility: Zoom offers live captioning. If further accessibility tools are needed please let us know 2 American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) CE’s available 🎥 Can't make it to the workshop but still want the content? Feel free to sign up even if you can't attend and we will send you the recording! #ecc #onlineworkshop

We are so excited to be able to host the knowledge of our guest presenters in asynchronous format! So if you didn’t get the chance to attend their workshops you can now purchase them after the fact & still get CEs 💻 https://lnkd.in/gAWuyJGH