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Kink and Healing
Kink and Healing
with Shveta Mittal, PhD
Thursday, June 26, 2025 from 7:00PM-9:00PM on Zoom
2 NYS CE and AASECT Credits!
Emerging research demonstrates that BDSM/kink can assist individuals in healing from past trauma. Some kink practitioners appear to intentionally seek out these purposes from kink, while others may experience healing as a by-product. This presentation aims to increase clinicians’ cultural competence with the diverse spectrum of kink sexualities, relational dynamics, and unique experiences of stigma. A brief introduction to the BDSM/Kink Community will be presented, followed by a review of research and clinical accounts that support personal growth and healing from BDSM/Kink engagements. The risks and benefits of trauma-informed kink play for psychosomatic healing will also be reviewed and discussed.
Over the course of this workshop, attendees will learn common myths about BDSM Practitioners, learn least 3 ways BDSM/Kink can facilitate personal growth and healing from trauma, and be taught to identify potential risks to using BDSM/kink activities for psychological and somatic healing.
About the Presenter:
Dr. Shveta Mittal is a licensed therapist, certified psychedelic practitioner, and leather lifestylist with more than a decade of experience helping clients develop a better understanding of themselves while facilitating improved coping, insight and personal growth. She has worked specifically with first responders and individuals holding multiple minority identities, providing culturally competent care from a sex-positive, person-centered, trauma-informed lens. Dr. Mittal is a co-chair of the American Psychological Association’s (APA) Division 44 BDSM Task Force and a member/author of the APA’s Joint Committee on Sex Positive Guidelines.
An important note about CEs: ICP is an approved provider of continuing education credits for social workers, mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, and psychoanalysts through the New York Department of Education. If your license is from a different state, please contact your state’s licensing board to find out if they will accept CE credits for New York State. If your license is from another state, please enter your license number with your state in parenthesis, ie 54321 (CA).
Registration Pricing:
$75 – General Admission
$60 – ICP affiliated professionals
$40 – Current ICP Therapists
$25 – Current Grad Student/Current ICP Candidate
Registration for this course has closed. For more information, please contact the program manager at STP@icpnyc.org
