Move from what’s now to what’s next.
Move from what’s now
to what’s next.
Jennifer Rehor
Learning, Leading, and Sharing
At Affirming Therapy Center, we believe that we can best serve the community by a continuous cycle of growth by Learning, Leading, and Sharing.
By Learning, we remain curious, informed, and adaptable.
By Leading, we put knowledge into action—guiding others with integrity and purpose.
By Sharing, we multiply impact, fostering collaboration and empowering those around us.
Together, these principles create a culture where we can meet the communities’ needs in the best way possible.
As the founder and clinical director of the practice, my work is centered on learning, mentorship, and supporting a team of sex-positive therapists serving kink/BDSM, fetish, non-monogamous, and Gender, Sexual, and Relationship-diverse communities. While not currently seeing clients, my focus remains on strengthening care through supervision, training, and community collaboration.
Below is a snapshot of my current learning, leadership, and professional contributions.
Learning
Completed a 6-module course in Therapeutic BDSM™, which uses a collaborative approach between Psychotherapists, BDSM Facilitators, and educators to work together to support clients using concepts of kink as part of their healing.
Attended FemDom Dinner & Speaker Panel: Bodies and BDSM with Sandra Koellmann.
Attended the Kink Professional Standards Alliance (KPSA) Summit. KPSA serves as a certifying body and a community hub, committed to fostering education, networking, and advocacy.
Attended Psychedelics of Kink presented by Skye White at the psychedelic convention Psycon Las Vegas.
Leading
Co-founder and Coordinator for the San Diego Gender, Sexual, and Relationship Diversity (GSRD) Therapist Forum.
Member of the American Psychological Association Division 44 BDSM Task Force.
Volunteer for the San Diego Leather Realm – Sponsoring the GSRD Forum in providing a variety of Mental Health Resources to our local community.
Meet with and mentor future sex therapists.
Supervisor-In-Training with the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT), including individual supervision for ATC Team members, and co-facilitating group supervision.
Sharing
Panel Discussion inside the San Diego Leather Realm.
Panelist for community education sponsored by the San Diego Femdom Alliance (SDFA).
Recurrent Guest Lecturer and panelist at various universities for graduate-level MFT classes in sexuality. Topic presented titled, “Cultural Sensitivity: Alternative Sexuality — working with people from diverse sexual lifestyles (including kink/BDSM, fetish, and non-monogamy).
Presented “Opening Up: A Process” at various conferences and in-service educational events at local therapy practices.
Publications
Sensual, Erotic, and Sexual Behaviors of Women from the “Kink” Community, published by the Archives of Sexual Behavior.
Provided a chapter on Dominant/submissive relationship in for the book BDSM in Therapy (expected release date: April 2026).
Co-author of Women and Kink: Relationships, Reasons, and Stories, published by Routledge.