Clinical Consultation
Jennifer Rehor, LMFT provides specialized consultation to help mental health professionals work with clients from gender, sexuality, and relationship diversity.
Topics include the following areas:
Assessing and improving therapist comfort with sexual health conversations:
- Sexual Health Principles
- General Sexual Health issues
- LGBTQ-specific questions
Non-monogamy: working with clients who are involved in non-monogamy (polyamory, swinging lifestyle, or other open arrangements), or considering opening up their relationship.
- The opening up process
- Understanding the role of jealousy,
- Assessing attachment styles;
- Multiple relationships: how to strengthen secure attachments in each relationship
- Determining whether their open relationship is working for them,
- Unpacking each individuals’ meaning of monogamy and non-monogamy,
- Dealing with discrimination
- Overcoming shame, stigma, judgments
Kink, or unconventional sexuality: Working with clients who have an interest in BDSM and/or sexual fetishes.
- D/s and M/s relationships, DD/lg relationships, or any other type of power dynamic or relationship style.
- Myths about sadomasochism
- Differentiating between abuse and S/M
- Common philosophies of the kink community
- Dealing with discrimination
- Overcoming shame, stigma, judgments
Adult industry: Working with clients who work in some area of the adult industry.
- Erotic dance
- Novelty retail
- Adult film
- Sex work
- Dealing with discrimination
- Overcoming shame, stigma, judgments
Credentials include the following training and experience:
- Master of Arts degree in Human Sexuality Studies
- Original research about women from the kink community
- San Diego County Train-the-Trainer program titled “Professional Skills Development for Sexual Health Conversations”,
- Recurrent Guest Lecturer at San Diego State University for the graduate-level MFT class in sexuality. Topic presented is titled, “Cultural Sensitivity: Alternative Sexuality — working with people from diverse sexual lifestyles (including kink/BDSM, fetish, and non-monogamy)”
- Adjunct Professor at Alliant International University teaching the Sex Therapy class to graduate students of the Couples and Family Therapy program
- Advanced training in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT)
- Psychotherapy experience working directly with individuals and couples from sexual minority communities
If you are interested in scheduling a clinical consultation with Jennifer Rehor, please send an e-mail to Jennifer@AffirmingTherapyCenter.com, or call 619.456.0830.