Private Sessions and Public Scenes: Navigating the Kink Community as a Mental Health Professional

Navigating the public kink scene can be scary as a mental health professional (especially when you work with kinksters!) Ask 5 people if they believe professionals can be public with their kinks, and you’ll receive 5 different answers. Torie and AJ have found ways to be professionals involved in their local kink community, and they want to share how they do so, what considerations to take when publicly navigating kink, where ethics fall into this, how to discuss your involvement in the community with clients/patients, self-disclosure, and how to navigate running into clients in kink spaces.

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