Clinical Perspectives on Kink: Bias, Myths & Meaning Making Online
This workshop serves as an essential reorientation for clinicians, educators, and care providers working with individuals who practice or identify with kink. Kink refers to consensual sexual interests, fantasies, behaviors, or relational dynamics that fall outside culturally normative sexual practices, yet do not inherently involve distress, impairment, or non-consent.
We begin by looking at the stories and assumptions that shape how we think about kink—often without realizing it. Together, we examine the messages many professionals have absorbed through training, media, and culture, and how those messages can quietly influence our clinical judgment and ethical decisions.
Participants will learn to recognize common myths about kink, identify their own assumptions and biases, and understand how broader cultural norms can affect the way they assess risk, consent, and wellbeing. This workshop helps participants build a more thoughtful and respectful approach to care—one grounded in curiosity, self-awareness, and an understanding of kink as a legitimate aspect of identity. This foundation supports stronger therapeutic relationships, reduces unintended harm, and allows for more accurate, affirming, and individualized care.
Presented by Yulinda Renee Rahman, Ph.D., LCPC
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This program, when attended in its entirety, offers 3.0 CEs for Psychologists, 3.0 IL CEUs for Counselors and Social Workers, 3.0 BBS California CEUs for LPCCs, LPSWs, and LMFTs, 3.0 AASECT CEs for Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists, or 3.0 NBCC Clock Hours.
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PROGRAM PRICING:
- General Admission: $75
- Students: $50*
(*Please email officeofce@thechicagoschool.edu for coupon code. Code must be entered at time of checkout to receive discount.)
Refund Policy: 100% of tuition is refundable up to 48 hours before the program. Within 48 hours of the program, and at any point in Homestudy format, tuition is nonrefundable.
- Date:
- Thursday, April 9, 2026
- Time:
- 11:00am - 2:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Central Time - US & Canada (change)
- Online:
- This is an online event.
- Event URL:
- https://tcsppofficeofce.com/april_9_2026/
- Audience:
- All Graduate Students All Students Alumni Doctoral Students Faculty Masters Students Public The Chicago School Community Undergraduate Students