Professor Ashley Weller, M.S Health Psychology 

Teaches module on intimacy and Gottman techniques 

Ashley is a professor of human sexuality, gender and sexual orientation, and health psychology.

She also hosts a sexual health and wellness podcast called “What’s Your Position”. Ashley is a lover of inclusion, a spreader of joy and positivity, and fascinated by human beings. She loves to educate people about the world of sex, sexuality, mental health, relationships, body image, and pleasure.

Dr. Evaline Dacker MD

Teaches module on STI/STD Stars Conversation

Dr. Evelin Dacker, MD is a Mexican-American,  sex-positive Integrative Family Medicine physician. She is active in teaching sexual health and normalizing conversations around pleasure, needs and boundaries. Dr Dacker maintains an active Family Medicine practice working with people through illness, trauma, and life transitions, She incorporates a multidisciplinary approach with principles of gratitude and pleasure to support her patients in creating their own wellness.  She specializes in sexual health as whole person health and works to destigmatize sexually transmitted infections. Dr. Dacker is certified in Functional Medicine and Integrative Health. 

In addition to practicing medicine, Dr. Dacker created the safer sex communication model The STARS Talk to help facilitate open and honest sex conversations. She is a community leader, a consent and sex educator, sexual health activist and TEDx speaker.

Dr. Lance Frank DPT, PT

Teaches module on anal dyspareunia and penis Topics 

Dr. Lance Frank is a physical therapist that specializes in pelvic floor dysfunction in all gender identities. Shortly after graduating from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, Dr. Lance opened his own practice, Flex PT ATL, in Midtown - the gayborhood of Atlanta. Dr. Lance is one a small group of penis-having therapists that treat pelvic floor disorders, and one of an even smaller group of queer practitioners that work in pelvic health. Being in the LGBTQIA+ community himself, Dr. Lance understands the awkwardness that queer people can feel in doctors offices discussing vulnerable issues surrounding their genitals. He also understands the toxic masculinity culture that makes it difficult for those with penises to discuss pelvic health concerns and sexual dysfunction as well.

In his clinic, Dr. Lance sees cisgender and transgender men and women with pelvic floor dysfunction; however, most of his caseload consists of people with penises. These patients have a wide range of issues involving the pelvic floor like urinary and bowel dysfunction, sexual health concerns, and pelvic pain. Dr. Lance is also active on social media where he spends time educating the masses about sexual health and pelvic floor dysfunction.

Ruby Jo Walker LCSW, CHT, SEP

Teaches module on polyvagal theory 

With over 30 years of experience in the trauma field, Ruby Jo Walker, LCSW, CHT, SEP, is an expert trainer in the field of the neurobiology of trauma and resilience.  She has specialized in trauma her whole career  She has done several hundred presentations throughout Colorado and the Navajo Nation (Utah, New Mexico and Arizona).  She also regularly works with agencies on staff resilience. She is the founder of Post-Traumatic Growth Somatic Therapy, a 66-hour program based in the most cutting edge principles of neurobiology.  She has been following Steven Porges work on polyvagal theory for 17 years and using that to inform her work. 

She was a key member of the state task force that developed resources for healthcare workers during the pandemic.  In addition to providing direct psychotherapy to clients, her current work focuses on supporting other helping professionals to better assist their clients and patients in developing resiliency on all levels of life. She is also trained and certified in 3 somatic long-term training programs—Somatic Experiencing, Hakomi, and Organic Intelligence.

Sage Geen

Discusses spirituality and alternative relationship styles.

Sage is a relationship and intimacy expert who empowers individuals to build more genuine and mindful connections. With over a decade of experience in facilitating and teaching intimacy, sex, and relationship frameworks across the globe, Sage is an interdisciplinary guide who helps people explore and embrace the depths of their connections. As a certified human design analyst, Sage supports individuals, couples, and groups in shedding their conditioned beliefs about relationships and intimacy, so they can tap into meaningful connections built on authenticity. Sage also specializes in Japanese Rope Bondage, popularly known as Shibari, and utilizes this unique and expansive practice to foster "connection in rope" and inspire others to appreciate the beauty of trust, surrender, and conscious intimacy in their relationships. Sage is passionate about guiding individuals in rediscovering their authenticity and cultivating healthy, conscious, and fulfilling connections.

Christopher Russell, LMSW

Teaches emotional regulation tools. 

My name is Christopher Russell, LMSW (pronouns: they/them). In my spare time I enjoy mindful walking, spending time with my cat Roscoe, laughing with friends, appreciating the macabre, watching movies, and reading. In my professional life, I am an inpatient therapist working exclusively with individuals experiencing crises in Northeast Arkansas, and I’m also a sex therapist. My career has led me to working with an immensely talented and resilient population, including trauma survivors, individuals living with HIV, sexual- and gender-diverse clients, clients experiencing intrusive suicidal thoughts, those with sex-related concerns, and those struggling to overcome the psychosocial impact of psychosis.

Jamie Joy

Teaches decentering genitals. 

Jamie Joy is a colorful whirlwind of ideas and radiant optimism. They are a queer trans certified sex educator whose life and work is committed to spreading joy, pleasure, and consent through community organizing. Jamie Joy is the Education Coordinator for PASSIONAL Boutique & Sexploratorium in Philly, trained and certified through SFSI (San Francisco Sex Information), and has worked in various healthcare clinics providing STI/HIV testing and safer sex counseling. 

Lucie Fielding, PhD, MA, LMHC

Teaches boundaries and ethical curiosity

Lucie Fielding, PhD, MA, LMHC (she/they) is a queer, neurodivergent, trans-misogyny-affected (TMA) femme, and a therapist practicing in Virginia and Washington (on Monacan and unceded Duwamish land, respectively). In addition to being a therapist, Lucie is a sex educator and the author of Trans Sex: Clinical Approaches to Trans Sexualities and Erotic Embodiments (2021), which was named a 2022 Lambda Literary Award finalist (in the Transgender-Nonfiction category) and the winner of the 2022 AASECT Book Award (Book for Sexuality Professionals).

John Helmiere

Teaches spirituality and sexuality integration.

John is a sex-positive pastor, a subversive mystic, a spiritual director, a creative writer, and a community organizer. He holds degrees in religion from Dartmouth and Yale and is working on another degree in psychology. He founded Valley & Mountain, a radically inclusive, multiracial, progressive church, and co-founded The Collaboratory, a social change incubator and direct service hub. He is passionate about supporting people on their journeys towards authenticity, liberation, and especially spiritual and sexual integration.

Kristin Spooner, LICSW, CST

Teaches parenting and sexuality

Kristin Spooner, LICSW, CST, is a radical clinical social worker, an AASECT certified sex therapist, and a devoted doctoral candidate. She has specialized expertise in the treatment of problematic sexual behaviors, sexual offending, and minor-attracted treatment, as well as providing support for gender identity, the LGBTQ+ community, Kink & BDSM, and couple/relational issues. Kristin has a fervent passion for sex education, viewing it as a means to liberation and a powerful tool to equip children with the skills necessary for their own safety. Grounded in the principles of anti-racism and social justice, her work focuses keenly on combating stigmatization of marginalized groups.

KELLY DIELS

Discusses pricing your services and social media

Kelly Diels is a feminist educator, writer, and coach. She specializes in feminist marketing for culture-makers. She's here to raise awareness about how the business-as-usual formulas we learn everywhere actually reproduce oppression. She develops and teaches alternate, feminist marketing tools to help us do it differently (and better).

Jessica Lee 

Teaches visibility

Jessica Lee is a Business and Visibility Coach who helps women entrepreneurs, coaches and creatives stand out on social media with consistent and authentic content and videos so their clients can find them and pay them, plus learn simple biz and sales strategies so they can grow to six figures.

Jessica Gold PhD

Teaches Neotantra

Dr. Jessica Gold, the Thinking Man’s Intimacy Coach, is an MIT-trained organic chemist and founder of Bliss Science. After a successful 10-year career as an academic researcher in chemistry & neuroscience, she broke free of lab life to pursue experiments in consciousness & sacred relating (a different kind of ‘chemistry,’ you might say). She now calls herself a ‘Tantric Scientist’.

Interabled Love Birds

Teaches disability and sexuality

Jessica Lee is a Business and Visibility Coach who helps women entrepreneurs, coaches and creatives stand out on social media with consistent and authentic content and videos so their clients can find them and pay them, plus learn simple biz and sales strategies so they can grow to six figures.

Goddess Honey B

Discusses liberatory kink 

Goddess Honey B (she/her) is a professional and lifestyle FemDomme and adult sex & kink educator. A self-described Black feminist freak, her kink practice is rooted in her politics and is explicitly in service of the freedom of Black people. In practice, this means that while the identities of those who worship her are varied, she prioritizes being a place where Black folks, especially Black women, trans, and genderqueer folks, can reimagine relationships with their own bodies, certain implements (whips, floggers, ropes), and pleasure more broadly. 

Her work discussing the intersection of kink and Black freedom has been published in Yes! Magazine, and she has been a featured educator or presenter at Exxxotica, the 2nd Annual Defend Black Women March, Haux Hive, and the Northeast Conference on Kink. She is currently co-curating a book with the pleasure missionary, Madame Seduction, slated to be published in the Pleasure Activism lineage.

Lexi Inks

Teaches copywriting and getting published 

Lexi Inks is a lifestyle journalist based in Jacksonville, Florida. She has bylines across many publications including Refinery29, Bustle, Cosmopolitan, Women’s Health, Well + Good, and others. Lexi covers many topics in the lifestyle and wellness spaces, but her main passion lies in writing about sex and relationships. 

 

Kristin Koel

Educator on Body Love and Authentic Relating

Kirsten Koel is professional coach, embodiment practitioner, enthusiastic salsa dancer, and insatiable adventuress. She’s been in the coaching field since 2013 and has received training from industry leaders in the realm of sacred sexuality, embodiment, intimacy and body lead coaching. She is the creator of Pleasure Based Weight Loss- a methodology that makes losing weight a sensual experience that inspires women to fall in love with their bodies and ignites their confidence. She believes that feeling good in our bodies, and about our bodies is for everyone. She’s lost 95 lbs using this process herself, and is devoted to spreading the message that weight loss can be gentle and loving instead of deprivational and difficult.

Lauren Breit MA, LCPC, CADC, NCC, CST

Teaches working with clients that have struggled with substance abuse 

Lauren Breit (she/her, they/them) is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with a Master’s Degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. She is a Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor, Sex Therapist, Level III Reiki Practitioner, educator, and dog mom.

She has over 14 years of experience and owns a thriving mental health practice in Chicago, IL - Three Raven Counseling. Lauren utilizes her humorous and unabashed disposition to offer her clients a holistic, collaborative and affirming space for healing and growth. She is committed to cultivating more inclusive spaces and practitioners for LGBTQIA+, consensual non-monogamy, polyamory, kink/BDSM clients. She has taught Sex Therapy at Governor’s State University in Chicago and has presented at University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Houston, and St. Xavier University.

Lauren’s passion lies in working with clients who practice alternative spiritualities, those struggling with trauma/PTSD, survivors of sexual trauma, male identified survivors of childhood sexual trauma and first responders.

Ellecia Paine

Educator on Non monogamy 

Ellecia Paine helps adventurous people break the social conditioning of monogamy and learn how to navigate healthy alternative relationship styles such as ethical non-monogamy, open relationships, polyamory and swinging. She helps them move through challenges like jealousy, fear, anxiety, and insecurities in a way that strengthens their relationships, deepens trust and communication, and leaves them feeling confident.

As the host of the podcast Nope! We're Not Monogamous, Ellecia believes in courageously challenging the status quo and empowering people to create relationships that work for the real people in those relationships. Throughout the past 9 years of living in an ethically non-monogamous relationship, while working as a sex, love, and relationship coach, Ellecia has acquired valuable insight and a unique ability to share this information with her clients and audience in a way that hits home while leaving them feeling validated and whole.

Midori

Teaches decolonizing kink within the program

Trailblazing educator, artist, and irritant to banality, Midori teaches, coaches, and consults on alternative sexuality, BDSM, Shibari cultural competency, and joyful empowerment through thoughtful kink. Along with founding ForteFemme Women’s Intensive, Midori is known for having penned the first English instruction book on Shibari, “Seductive Art of Japanese Bondage” in 2001, paving the way for the popularity of rope today. She works closely with therapists and other helping professionals as Co-Director of Kink Informed Certification for Sexual Health Alliance.