This is Torie’s (she/her) first time teaching at THRIVE, but she has attended since 2022. She is neurodivergent (ADHD), polyamorous, pansexual, fat, cisgender, white, kinky, and a TBI-survivor. She is a mental health therapist in private practice. She enjoys working with clients in areas such as ENM, LGBTQIA+, sexual desire, kink, gender, religious trauma, and ADHD. Her biggest goal as a therapist is to help create safety around talking about hard things. When not working, she enjoys playing with her dog Merlin, eating pancakes, going to kink conventions, bird watching, and trying to keep her house plants alive.

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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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