Sexual Health Alliance (SHA)
Provocative Dialogue. Radical Collaboration.
The Sexual Health Alliance (SHA) promotes an integrated, interdisciplinary approach to sexuality with the goal of fostering cooperation and dialogue among diverse professionals.
Since 2015, SHA has hosted over 8000 people at our events, certified specialized sex therapists, counselors, and sex educators and have been lucky enough to collaborate with many of the leading expert in sexuality and relationships.
Throughout the year, SHA facilitates communication among sexual health providers through our signature sexceptional workshops and Sexological Annual Conferences, Sexuality Study Abroad Programs, special events, and social media.
Our events and programming are intended to build community, spark dialogue and encourage collaboration. We build communities that are well-informed and all inclusive. We're dedicated to bringing the brightest minds and biggest game changers in sexual health to every area of the world.
Collaboration
One of our goals is to provide a space for sexual health professionals such as urologists, OBGYNs, pelvic floor therapists, sexuality educators, and sex therapists to collaborate in a meaningful way. Our intention is to build healthcare communities that provide holistic, integrative services in an effort to bridge the divide between mental health and medical professionals. We believe that to become better providers, we need to become better collaborators.
education
We offer AASECT & state CEUs to MDs, Clinical Psychologists, LPCs, LMFTs, LCSWs, LCDCs, and sexuality professionals seeking AASECT certification. We recognized a need within the mental health and medical community for more opportunities for sexual health education. We seek to fill that knowledge gap for both seasoned and new professionals to deepen and support affirmative care. CEUs will be primarily offered through our signature series, Sexceptional Lectures.
community
Community events include Sex Nerd Trivia, Sex Nerd Book Club, Spark! Roundtables, and other gatherings. Sex Nerd Trivia is a rowdy event intended to help build the community. Spark! Roundtables are designed to ignite dialogue, inspire collaboration and encourage progression of discourse among thinkers from diverse academic and professional disciplines. Expert panelists will be selected based on their ability to add a unique, fresh perspective.
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SHA’s STANCE on SEX ADDICTION vs Out of Control Sexual behavior
SHA believes that we as therapists and educators need to challenge the concept of sexual addiction and explore a different model of sexuality. We do not support CSAT (Certified Sex Addiction Therapist) programs. A sex addiction diagnosis is not empirically supported and does not promote the language we deem to be shaming.
We currently have 8 FREE video interviews on Rethinking Sex Addiction and OCSB on our blog HERE with the top couples and sex therapists in the world.
We also have a full sex therapy, counselor, educator & consultant certification program currently 100% online where we delve deeper into this topic!
SHA also supports the American Association for Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT)’s stance on this topic. For more information, please read AASECT’s Position on Sex Addiction HERE.