Sex worker affirmative therapy is a model for therapists to engage with sex workers in a supportive and strengths-based way to mitigate the many impacts of distal and proximal stressors. As with any client-centered therapeutic approach, these guidelines should be tailored to the individual and their presenting problem(s) in therapy, and therefore, all guidelines may not be applicable to every sex worker client. The following outline is part of our published paper, Sex Worker

The Minnesota Sexual Health Institute is an approved American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists provider of continuing education credits (provider # 18-701-M) We have recently added two exciting trainings which are approved for Continuing Education credits through AASECT. 1. Sex Worker Affirmative Therapy: The Role of Minority Stress in Sex Worker Health (1 AASECT CE 2.Sex Work and Sex Trafficking: Misinformation and False Dichotomies (1 AASECT CE To ta

Bloomquist, K., & Sprankle, E. (2019). Sex worker affirmative therapy: Conceptualization and  case study. Sexual and Relationship Therap

This research article was published in the journal of Sexuality Research and Social Policy. The full text can be read on their host site. This research study, by Dr. Eric Sprankle and SWOP-USA board member, Katie Bloomquist LMFT, looks at how changing whether a sexual assault victim was a sex worker or non-sex worker affects empathy for the victim, as well as victim-blaming. In the study, 197 Midwestern U.S. undergraduate students (mainly white, heterosexual cisgender women)