The Clinician’s Compass: Sex and Ethics Workshop

Today’s therapists are navigating a clinical landscape that is more demanding, more complex, and more ethically intricate than ever. The Clinician’s Compass Sex and Ethics Workshop is a two-lesson workshop series designed to ground clinicians in the practical, ethical, and evidence-informed skills they need to thrive. This training cuts through confusion, builds genuine confidence, and equips practitioners to handle two areas where clinicians consistently report feeling the least prepared: ethics in real-world practice and sexual health in therapy.

Whether you’re early in your career or a seasoned provider looking to sharpen your tools, this workshop series provides clarity, structure, and the kind of grounded professional empowerment clinicians rarely receive in graduate programs.

Workshop 1: Sex Therapy 101- Building Comfort, Competence and Clinical Skill
Building Comfort, Competence, and Clinical Skill**
Instructor- Kristin Trudeau LPC-MHSP, LADAC II, CST, CFRC

Most clinicians were never trained to talk comfortably or competently about sex—yet sexual wellbeing intersects with trauma, mood, relationships, stress, attachment, and identity in nearly every caseload.

This foundational training demystifies sexual health, dissolves clinician discomfort, and gives you frameworks you can use immediately and ethically with clients.

You will learn to:
✔ Understand desire, arousal, and common presentations such as desire discrepancy
✔ Differentiate spontaneous vs. responsive desire
✔ Use permission-based, attuned language to normalize sexual concerns
✔ Apply the PLISSIT Model, BETTER Model, and Five-Domain Sexual Health Intake
✔ Recognize pelvic pain disorders, hormonal contributors, and medication impacts
✔ Practice within scope while knowing when and how to collaborate with medical and sexual health specialists
✔ Build comfort and fluency through experiential exercises and case-based practice

Outcome:
You leave ready to talk about sexual health confidently, ethically, and without hesitation—because you’ll know exactly what to say, what to assess, and what belongs in (or outside) your scope.

Workshop 2: Ethics, The Real Safe Word
Boundaries, Power, and Ethical Practice in Sex Therapy
Instructor- Kristin Trudeau LPC-MHSP, LADAC II, CST, CFRC

Sex therapy and sexual health conversations invite some of the most vulnerable, nuanced, and ethically complex moments in clinical work. This 3-hour ethics-focused training is designed to help clinicians navigate those moments with clarity, confidence, and integrity—without losing warmth, authenticity, or clinical effectiveness.

Grounded in AASECT core competencies and aligned with professional ethics standards across major counseling bodies, this experiential training explores the real-world ethical dilemmas that arise when working with sex, intimacy, identity, trauma, desire, and relationships.

Participants will examine the intersection of power, boundaries, consent, scope of practice, values, documentation, consultation, and risk management through case examples, interactive discussion, and applied skill-building. The goal is not only to protect clients and clinicians—but to strengthen the work itself.

This training is ideal for:

• Therapists who discuss sexual health in their work
• Sex therapists and sex therapy–adjacent clinicians
• Clinicians seeking ethics CE hours that feel practical and relevant
• Providers who want greater confidence navigating sensitive topics
• Anyone who believes sex-positive practice must also be ethics-strong

Expect a learning environment that is thoughtful, engaging, reflective, and grounded in clinical reality—professional, but never sterile.