Clinical Consultation

Jennifer Rehor, LMFT, CST 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 the open relationship is working
• Unpacking each individuals’ meaning of monogamy and non-monogamy
• Dealing with discrimination
• Overcoming shame, stigma, judgments

Kink: Working with clients who have an interest in Kink, 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 are involved in some area of the adult industry (such as erotic dance, novelty retail, adult film, and sex work).

• Differentiating between exploitation and consensual adult industry work
• Addressing stereotypes
• Dealing with discrimination
• Overcoming shame, stigma, and judgments
• Examining therapist’s bias

Credentials include the following training and experience:

• AASECT Certified Sex Therapist and Supervisor-in-Training
• Master of Arts degree in Human Sexuality Studies
• Original research about women from the kink community
• Co-Author of Women and Kink: Relationships, Reasons, and Stories
• 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)
• Ten years of 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.