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AASECT Group Supervision for Sex Therapists-in-Training
Holistic, sex-positive, trauma-informed, and culturally responsive AASECT-aligned group supervision supporting clinicians on the path toward AASECT Sex Therapist Certification.
Learn in community. Deepen clinical confidence. Strengthen your therapeutic presence when sexuality, intimacy, trauma, culture, and complex relational dynamics enter the therapy room.
Supervisión en grupo con enfoque holístico, culturalmente sensible y sex-positivo para terapeutas en formación.
This group serves:
Supervision hours for AASECT Certification
CEs for AASECT-Certified Clinicians
Meet Jacqueline Mendez, LMFT, CST, CST-S
I’m a bilingual, bicultural sex therapist, mentor, and supervisor with over 20 years of experience guiding clinicians and clients through the complexities of sexuality, intimacy, and relational growth. My supervision is AASECT-aligned, holistic, and deeply relational, blending trauma-informed care, somatic practices, intersectional frameworks, and clinical expertise.
Working in sex therapy has shown me the profound transformation that happens when clinicians grow alongside their clients, gaining confidence, clarity, and ethical grounding. I provide group and individual supervision virtually, nationally and internationally, supporting therapists on their journey to AASECT Sex Therapy Certification.
Your skills, presence, and unique gifts as a therapist are needed in the world. Let’s help you bring them forward.
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AASECT Group Supervision
Holistic, Sex-Positive, and Decolonizing Group Supervision for Sex Therapists-in-Training.
AASECT Group Supervision with Jacqueline Mendez, LMFT, CST, CST-S, offers a warm, relational, and clinically rigorous learning environment for therapists pursuing AASECT Sex Therapist Certification. Across all groups, supervision is grounded in academic depth, ethical integrity, and embodied clinical wisdom—while intentionally centering culture, power, identity, and relational process.
These groups are designed to support clinicians who want more than technique alone. Supervision focuses on how you show up in the therapy room: how you respond when clients bring sexuality, trauma, desire, shame, intimacy struggles, spiritual beliefs, and complex relational dynamics into the space. Emphasis is placed on therapist presence, use of self, countertransference, and ethical decision-making within real-world clinical contexts.
Group supervision offers a collaborative learning experience where clinicians benefit from multiple perspectives, shared inquiry, and collective wisdom. Participants are supported in deepening confidence, expanding clinical skill, and developing greater ease and attunement when working with diverse sexualities, relationship structures, and lived experiences.
All AASECT group supervision spaces are sex-positive, trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and decolonizing, honoring the full humanity of both clients and clinicians while supporting professional growth, sustainability, and certification goals.
Who These Groups Are For
All AASECT Group Supervision offerings are designed for clinicians who are seeking AASECT-aligned, sex-positive, and culturally responsive supervision in a supportive group setting.
These groups are ideal for:
Clinicians pursuing AASECT Sex Therapist Certification (group and individual supervision hours, as applicable)
Licensed therapists and associates participating in AASECT-approved supervision
Sex therapists-in-training seeking trauma-informed, ethical, and relationally focused supervision
Clinicians working with individuals, couples, and diverse relationship structures, including consensual non-monogamy and polycules
Therapists who want to deepen confidence, clarity, and presence when working with sexual concerns and intimacy challenges
Jacqueline’s AASECT group supervision spaces are especially supportive for clinicians who:
Serve Latine, BIPOC, immigrant, and first-generation communities
Hold intersectional, feminist, and decolonizing clinical frameworks
Integrate somatic, spiritual, expressive, or experiential approaches into their work
Want to increase comfort and competence in discussing desire, arousal, pleasure, shame, sexual trauma, and taboo topics with clients
Group Supervisory Approach
In this AASECT group supervision, Jacqueline’s approach is intentionally designed to leverage the relational power of the group while supporting each clinician’s individual development.
Holistic & Integrative
Group supervision attends to the whole clinician—cognitive, emotional, somatic, relational, and spiritual. Participants are invited to notice how personal and ancestral history, nervous system responses, and relational patterns influence clinical presence, ethical decision-making, and therapeutic effectiveness.
Sex-Positive & Pleasure-Affirming
Within the group, sexuality is explored as a core dimension of health and vitality. Clinicians are supported in developing language, confidence, and ethical clarity when discussing desire, arousal, pleasure, erotic expression, and sexual challenges—while holding consent, power, and professional boundaries at the center.
Somatic & Experiential
Group supervision includes somatic awareness and experiential reflection to help clinicians track bodily responses, regulate the nervous system, and increase embodied attunement. These practices support therapists in responding, rather than reacting, during complex or emotionally charged clinical moments.
Decolonizing & Culturally Attuned
The group serves as a reflective space to examine how colonialism, patriarchy, religion, immigration, gender socialization, and intergenerational trauma shape both client presentations and therapist responses. Cultural humility and contextual awareness are woven into case discussion and group process.
Relational & Process-Oriented
Emphasis is placed on how clinicians relate to clients, to themselves, and within the group. Supervision focuses on the therapist’s use of self, countertransference, parallel process, and clinical judgment, recognizing that how we respond in relationships often matters as much as clinical knowledge itself.
Grow Into the Sex Therapist You’re Becoming
AASECT group supervision is more than a requirement—it’s a space to build confidence, clarity, and clinical presence while learning alongside peers who truly understand the work.
Through ongoing AASECT group supervision, you will:
Feel more confident and grounded addressing sexual concerns, intimacy challenges, desire, arousal, and pleasure with clients
Develop clear, confident language for navigating taboo, sensitive, or complex sexual topics—without freezing, over-educating, or avoiding
Strengthen ethical decision-making and professional boundaries, so you can trust yourself in challenging or high-stakes clinical moments
Expand your effectiveness in couples and relational work, including non-monogamy, power dynamics, and attachment patterns
Increase awareness of countertransference and therapist reactivity, allowing you to respond with intention rather than self-doubt
Experience ongoing support, accountability, and professional community, reducing isolation and burnout while you grow as a sex therapist
This group supervision is not just about meeting certification requirements—it’s about becoming a more confident, embodied, and ethically grounded sex therapist.
Ready to grow with support?
Request a Group Supervision Consultation to explore current openings and next steps.
Group Structure & AASECT Alignment
AASECT group supervision is intentionally structured to support clinical depth, relational safety, and certification requirements.
Format: Live, virtual group supervision sessions designed to support connection, accessibility, and consistency
Group Size: Small, carefully curated groups to allow for meaningful participation, individualized feedback, and relational depth. Most groups have a maximum of 4 participants.
Frequency: Offered as ongoing groups or time-limited cohorts, based on availability and training needs. Most groups meet monthly.
AASECT Credit: Supervision hours count toward AASECT certification requirements in accordance with current AASECT supervision guidelines. If a participant is already AASECT-certified, CEs are available. Please note that the completion of any group does not guarantee certification.
Each group session includes case consultation, clinical discussion, reflective dialogue, and integrative learning, while maintaining confidentiality, ethical standards, and professional supervisory boundaries.
Fees & Financial Reciprocity
AASECT group supervision with Jacqueline Mendez is grounded in equity, transparency, and financial reciprocity, acknowledging the diverse economic realities of therapists across private practice, nonprofit, and community-based settings.
Group supervision is offered on an equity-scale model, allowing clinicians to choose a rate that best aligns with their income, practice context, and commitment to the shared growth of the supervision community. Specific rates and group placement are discussed during your consultation.
Group Supervision Options:
Sacred Canopy – $100/hour
Fully honoring self, sexuality, and sacred growth. Ideal for clinicians in private practice or organizational settings seeking in-depth, high-touch supervision.Generative Circle – $80/hour
Rooted in generosity and reciprocity, this group nourishes both your professional growth and the collective garden of sacred sexuality. Best suited for insurance-based practices expanding sexual health and relational expertise.Rooted Circle – $60/hour
Designed for community mental health settings serving primarily marginalized and BIPOC populations. This tier prioritizes access, equity, and culturally responsive supervision.Sacred Seeds – $50/hour
Deeply accessible and open to international participants, providing supportive supervision for those seeking connection, learning, and professional development across borders.
Next Step:
Select the group that best fits your professional context, values, and learning goals, and request a consultation to discuss placement, schedule, and supervision alignment.
The Transformative Journey of AASECT Certification
Becoming an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist is not just about gaining knowledge—it’s about transformation. This journey asks you to step into deeper awareness, not only of your clients’ stories but of your own. As therapists, our personal experiences, challenges, and even discomforts become growth opportunities. When approached with curiosity and support, these moments expand our capacity to hold space with greater depth, empathy, and authenticity.
Rather than seeing personal reactions or challenges as obstacles, they can be invitations to deepen your understanding of sexuality, relationships, and human experience. This process is not just intellectual; it’s embodied, emotional, and deeply personal. The more we integrate and metabolize our own experiences, the more present, attuned, and effective we become for those we serve.
Supervision is a sacred space where you can process transference, countertransference, and the inevitable stirrings that arise. In a community with like-minded professionals, you don’t just refine your clinical skills—you develop the resilience and authenticity that make you a truly exceptional sex therapist.
AASECT Group Supervision Offerings
Explore Our Upcoming Groups Below
Take a look at the offerings we have coming up—we’d love to welcome you into a space that feels supportive, expansive, and aligned.
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Ongoing Monthly AASECT Group Supervision
Monthly supervision groups offer a supportive and consistent personal and professional growth space. Ideal for therapists, coaches, and healers, these groups provide ongoing case consultation, peer learning, and expert guidance to deepen your practice.
Participants benefit from regular check-ins, accountability, and the opportunity to integrate new insights, ensuring sustained development and transformation throughout their journey.
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Cohort Group Supervision Programs
Topic-Based Supervision Groups
Closed, small-group experiences designed for therapists seeking in-depth exploration of a specific theme or clinical focus.
These intimate cohorts offer a supportive and consistent space to:
Deepen clinical insight around a shared area of interest
Receive targeted, specialized guidance and supervision
Connect with peers navigating similar questions and client themes
Engage in integrative dialogue that honors culture, identity, and therapeutic presence
Each group is anchored in a specific topic—such as sexuality and spirituality, working with BIPOC clients, somatic sex therapy, or healing intergenerational trauma—and we move together in a held, co-created journey over several weeks or months.
These groups are ideal for clinicians who long for depth, community, and a shared space for nuanced, embodied reflection.
Entre Nos
BIPOC
Spirituality & Sacred Sexuality
4-D Wheel Approach
Requirements for Group
- Full participation in all sessions is required to maintain the integrity and depth of the experience. Sessions will not be recorded to ensure confidentiality and a safe space for all.
- If needed, one makeup session may be allowed, depending on availability.
- Access to clients for sex therapy case consultation.
- Be a licensed clinician or under supervision by a primary clinical supervisor in your state.
- Desire to embrace a decolonizing, feminist, intersectional, and BIPOC perspective offered by a Latina.
- Signed contract with a primary AASECT Supervisor or is interested in and able to have a secondary supervisor.
- Ability to do supervision online.
- Able to manage your professional responsibilities
- Be 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, including being open to other languages spoken in session.
- Maintaining strict confidentiality is essential to creating a safe and trusting space. Participants are expected to uphold the privacy of both client cases and the experiences shared by fellow group members. This ensures a respectful, secure environment where everyone can engage in open, honest reflection without fear of breach or judgment.
Why AASECT Certification Matters?
Becoming AASECT Certified is widely recognized as the gold standard in sex therapy and education, signaling the highest level of professional expertise, ethics, and credibility.
Supervision is a foundational element in the AASECT certification process—an essential space for clinical refinement, ethical grounding, and deepened therapeutic presence. But for those called to this path, it becomes much more.
Becoming a sex therapist is a profound journey of self-discovery and service. In our work together, supervision evolves into a transformational container—where clinical skill meets embodied wisdom, multicultural awareness enriches therapeutic nuance, and the personal and professional intertwine in meaningful ways. Here, you explore your own edges, examine and transform countertransference, and integrate your experiences into more conscious, effective clinical practice.
Through holistic, integrative supervision with me, you not only meet rigorous AASECT standards but also deepen self-awareness, embodiment, and clinical confidence. This approach ensures you can serve clients with authenticity, compassion, and skill while positioning yourself as a trusted leader in sexuality and relational health.
Here, you’re not just checking boxes—you’re becoming the healer you’re meant to be.
My Approach to AASECT Supervision
My supervision style is warm, encouraging, and deeply respectful of who you are—while also being rigorous, rooted in best practices, and aligned with the highest standards of clinical excellence. I see supervision as a sacred space where emerging sex therapists grow not just in knowledge, but in presence, integrity, and confidence.
Supervision with me is an integrative process—where theory, ethics, embodiment, and identity come together in meaningful, personal, and clinically sound ways. We don’t just talk about sexual health; we engage it on all levels of experience—intellectual, emotional, physical, relational, and spiritual. I support you in connecting the dots between case conceptualization, interventions, and your evolving identity as a therapist.
My approach is relational, trauma-informed, and culturally attuned. It honors ancestral wisdom, cultural narratives, and the family systems that shape us. We explore how race, gender, power, and privilege influence the therapeutic encounter, and how to center social justice and cultural humility in your work with clients. Together, we make room for authenticity, complexity, and joy.
The tools we use are as dynamic as the people we serve. In addition to clinical talk and case discussion, supervision may include somatic awareness practices, expressive arts, guided spiritual inquiry, and person-of-the-therapist reflection. These elements help you deepen your connection to yourself and your clients, while developing the sensitivity and skill needed to navigate complex clinical material with care and confidence.
Whether you’re seeking certification or simply want to become a more embodied, culturally responsive sex therapist, our work together is designed to expand your capacity to hold healing space—for others and for yourself.
My Supervision Values | Supervision as Sacred
A space for deep integration, growth, and becoming
Supervision with me is more than a pathway to AASECT certification—it’s a transformational journey into your full presence as a healer, guide, and relational being. We co-create a container that balances rigorous clinical learning with soulful personal exploration. It’s warm, encouraging, trauma-informed, and grounded in real-world experience.
Beyond theory—into embodiment and presence
In our work, we integrate:
- Clinical theory and sex therapy best practices
- Ethics and professional identity development
- Embodiment and somatic awareness
- Cultural narratives and intergenerational legacies
- Expressive arts and spiritual inquiry
You’ll learn how to hold space that honors not just the body and mind, but the heart and spirit—because sexuality lives in all of them.
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 towards 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.
We do the deep work—together
I bring decades of experience across psychotherapy, coaching, supervision, and healing traditions. My feedback is thoughtful, attuned, and growth-oriented. I support you in:
- Applying sex therapy frameworks to diverse client issues
- Honoring your own clinical instincts while staying accountable to AASECT standards
- Deepening your ability to hold complexity, trauma, pleasure, and change
- Navigating countertransference and the “person of the therapist” lens
We work collaboratively—so you build both skill and self-trust.
Centering lived experience and social location
Your story matters. So do your clients’ stories. My supervision actively embraces:
- Family systems and ancestral wisdom
- Cultural humility and responsiveness
- Conversations on race, gender, power, and privilege
- Practices that decolonize, affirm, and liberate
This is a space where BIPOC, LGBTQ+, neurodivergent, and other marginalized clinicians are celebrated and supported in showing up fully.
“What would happen if we asked different questions of our clients—that encouraged them to address how sex feels and what it means in their lives, not just the goals and activities we can count and measure?”
– Gina Ogden
Becoming AASECT Certified has profoundly enriched my life, offering me invaluable insights into human sexuality and relationships that have strengthened my personal connections and elevated my professional practice.
This journey, guided by a holistic approach, has not only made me a more compassionate and effective therapist but also empowered me to see the interconnectedness of various aspects of well-being.
Now, as a supervisor, I have the privilege of guiding and supporting others, fostering their development, and witnessing the transformative impact of this certification on their lives and careers.
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Step Two: Schedule a Supervisor Introduction Session
