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AASECT SEX THERAPY
GROUP SUPERVISION SERVING BIPOC
Rooted in Liberation, Connection, and Sacred Practice
A soulful, small-group supervision space for clinicians pursuing AASECT certification and working with BIPOC communities and clients. Together, we deepen our clinical insight, honor our ancestral wisdom, and explore the intersections of sexuality, race, spirituality, and healing. This is a sacred container where your voice, identity, and growth are centered.
This supervision group is a sacred and transformative space for clinicians pursuing AASECT certification and committed to integrating a decolonizing, feminist, and intersectional lens into their sex therapy practice that serve BIPOC clients.
Designed for those serving BIPOC communities, this group bridges academic inquiry, clinical depth, and ancestral wisdom. Together, we hold space for critical reflection, embodied presence, and the sacredness of sexuality. We explore transference, countertransference, and complex relational dynamics with curiosity and care, while grounding our work in both research-informed practice and the wisdom of lived experience.
More than just supervision, this is a soul-nourishing container where your voice is honored, your lineage is respected, and your becoming is witnessed. Rooted in collective healing and guided by the alchemy of transformation, we journey together—expanding our capacity to show up with integrity, clarity, and heart.
This group is dedicated to creating a welcoming environment where all participants feel valued, respected, and heard, embracing the diversity of their own and their clients’ backgrounds and cultural identities. We aim to honor the contributions and legacies of our ancestors while fostering a space for growth and learning.
Our mission is to provide a supportive and inclusive community for clinicians pursuing AASECT Certification. Through a multicultural lens, we strive to cultivate a safe and sacred space where therapists can engage in meaningful discussions, share insights, and support one another on their professional journey.
In these group supervision sessions, participants engage in discussions and activities aimed at exploring and incorporating decolonizing principles, feminist theories, and intersectionality into their clinical practice. The facilitator creates a supportive and inclusive environment where clinicians can share their challenges, insights, and successes in applying these perspectives to their work.
Key components of the supervision sessions include:
Examining the historical and systemic factors that contribute to sexual health disparities within BIPOC communities.
Discussing ways to integrate culturally responsive and trauma-informed approaches into assessments, interventions, and therapeutic relationship.
Exploring the impact of power dynamics, privilege, and oppression on clients’ experiences of sexuality and identity.
Collaboratively developing strategies for advocating social justice and equity within clinical settings and broader communities.
Reflecting on personal biases and assumptions and cultivating self-awareness to enhance cultural humility and competence.
By centering the experiences and expertise of BIPOC individuals, these group supervision sessions provide a valuable opportunity for clinicians to deepen their understanding of diverse perspectives and enhance the effectiveness of their clinical practice.
Led by Jacqueline Mendez, LMFT, CST, and CST-S, who uses an integrative approach. She believes that sex is sacred and that sexuality is unique to every individual. With a Master’s Degree in Spiritual Psychology, her work is infused with spirituality and holistic perspectives, including ancestral rituals, including Gina Ogden’s 4-D approach. She works from a decolonizing, feminist, anti-racist, and intersectional perspective.
Jacqueline has presented at the annual AASECT Conference on the use of movement and embodiment practices in sex therapy to support clients (and supervisees) to heal more fully and integrate body, heart, mind, and spirit.
Jacqueline is also a sought-after contributor and speaker on television, radio, print, and other news media, including The New York Times, Bustle, Refinery 29, Insider, Business Insider, Hip Latina, and Motion Picture Television Fund.
She believes that the process of becoming a sex therapist is a personal journey that will not only teach you how to support your clients’ growth best but also heal and expand you in various facets.
This is a closed, intimate group designed to foster deeper connection, vulnerability, and a more expansive exploration of the mental, emotional, relational, and sexual wellbeing of BIPOC clients. With a consistent circle of just four participants, we create the safety needed for courageous conversations, meaningful collaboration, and the weaving of collective wisdom.
This Group Is For You If You:
- Identify as a therapist or a therapist, counselor, social worker, or mental health professional that works with BIPOC communities/clients.
- You are working toward AASECT certification as a sex therapist.
- Seek supervision grounded in decolonizing, feminist, trauma-informed, and holistic frameworks.
- Long for a space where you can be both professional and profoundly human
- Desire community, accountability, and sacred witnessing on your path
Group Details:
- Meets Twice Monthly: Exact Day TBD
- Time: Exact time TBD
- Format: Virtual via Zoom
- Length of Time: 2-hour sessions
- Total Supervision Hours: 6 group sessions =12 hours total
- Commitment: 4-month/12 sessions cycles, with option to continue
- Group Size: Limited to 4 participants for depth and individual attention
- CES Available: If you are already AASECT Certified, the group may count toward Continuing Education hours
What You’ll Receive:
- Supervision hours applicable toward AASECT certification
- Thoughtful, culturally attuned feedback and case consultation
- Exploration of your personal and professional edges
- Space to integrate your spirituality, ancestral roots, and learnings.
- A community that sees you and supports your growth
Investment:
- $180 2-Hour Session
- Option 1: $1080 at Registration
- Option 2: Two Payments $550 at Registration & before 4th session
- Limited Equity Scale available. Reach out to inquire.
Earning your certification is more than checking boxes—it’s a journey of becoming.
Let this be a space where you rise, root, and remember the healer you are.
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Requirements for Supervision
- Participation in all sessions. There will be no make-up sessions and no recordings.
- Access to clients for sex therapy case consultation.
- A licensed clinician.
- Desire to embrace a decolonizing, feminist, intersectional, and BIPOC perspective offered by a Latina.
- Signed contract with a primary AASECT Supervisor or interested in and able to have a secondary supervisor.
- Completion of this program does not ensure or guarantee AASECT certification. For further information please contact info@aasect.org.
- Ability to do supervision online.
- Able to manage your professional responsibilities
- Serving minority and/or a marginalized group
- An active supervision participant with a willingness to invest time outside supervision for additional learning.
- Openness to examining biases, countertransference, and challenging patriarchal and colonizing beliefs.
- Enjoying, expanding knowledge, evolving, and building connections with peers.
My Approach
My continued growth and commitment in anti-racist and de-colonial therapeutic practices influences my work and mentoring with supervisees. I motivate my supervisees to participate within our professional communities and to be a support network for each other.
I encourage my supervisees to learn and grow from counter-transference as it appears naturally in a therapeutic space. Supervisees learn to create a sacred space for their own journey as a sex therapist because as sex therapists we are help by bringing light to the dark places and compassion to the tender parts.
As part of the AASECT Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) committee, I support the organization’s growth in this area. Being part of this committee also supports my commitment to greater inclusion, equity, and representation. Learn more about me or other supervisory offerings.
My Supervision Values
The Person of the Therapist Training Model presents a model that prepares therapists to make active and purposeful use of who they are, personally and professionally, in all aspects of the therapeutic process—relationship, assessment, and intervention. Conscious and planned use of a therapist’s race, gender, culture, values, life experience, and in particular, personal vulnerabilities and struggles in how they relate to and help clients.
Clinical supervision can then emphasize the purposeful utilization of self-in the moment—both flaws and strengths—in the therapeutic relationship in combination with the technical interventions with clients.
Intersectionality is a concept for understanding the ways that multiple forms of inequality or disadvantage compound themselves and create obstacles that often are not understood among conventional ways of thinking. Inclusion is critical to the field of sexuality so that sexual minorities, marginalized folx, non-English speakers, and those of various cultures can receive good and knowledgeable sex therapy and support.
Equality is about the fair treatment of everyone seeking mental and sexual health.
Equity creates equal possible outcomes for everyone because, despite effort and merit, people can experience substantial barriers in obtaining mental and sexual health.
Diversity is all the ways in which people differ from one another. This can include race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, socioeconomic status, veteran status, education, marital status, language, age, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, mental or physical ability, and learning styles
Inclusion is the culture in which the mix of people can feel comfortable and confident to be themselves and seek support in a way that aligns with who they are. Having sex therapists that also reflect the population they are serving is also essential.
Some of the most fundamental understanding of the human condition emerges from the Western understanding of what is considered healthy, normal, and acceptable. The decolonizing perspective calls for action toward social change, inclusion, and validation of the lived experiences of indigenous populations, people of color, and the economically disadvantaged, among others.
I teach my supervisees to address the whole person not just the presenting problem. This includes a person’s physical, emotional, mental, social, and spiritual well-being. Addressing the whole person in body-mind-heart-spirit can bring out the healthiest, happiest version of ourselves and heal. It also supports clients not to focus only performance and function, and see the whole of their sex and sexuality narrative.
I have presented at various AASECT Conferences about the importance of embodiment techniques, to get clients back in their bodies rather than keeping them sitting while exploring thoughts and feelings. Embodiment or body-focused processes assist our clients in creating a different experience in the moment. Supervisees are guided through different processes to help them connect to their own bodies.I have presented at various AASECT Conferences about the importance of embodiment techniques, to get clients back in their bodies rather than keeping them sitting while exploring thoughts and feelings. Embodiment or body-focused processes assist our clients in creating a different experience in the moment. Supervisees are guided through different processes to help them connect to their own bodies.
Witnessing the lack of Latinx and BIPOC representation within AASECT inspired me to step into leadership as a certified AASECT Sex Therapy Supervisor. Today, I have the honor of supervising clinicians across the U.S. who are pursuing certification, consulting nationally on sexual health topics in both English and Spanish media, and leading several healing-focused initiatives. I run a California-based group practice that centers BIPOC individuals and couples in relational and sex therapy (CRIWB), a sex coaching practice that serves clients nationwide (HSH), and a nonprofit committed to training clinicians and supporting clients through a holistic, somatic, and decolonizing lens (A HEALING GROUND).
If you want to learn and be mentored from a holistic, multicultural, and BIPOC-centered perspective along with colleagues with similar lived experiences as a Person of Color, this is the group for you.
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