My classes

As Safe As We Can Be: Harm Reduction in Kink

Kink often involves intense physical sensation, strong emotional responses, and altered states of consciousness such as domspace and subspace. While these experiences can be extremely rewarding, they can also affect judgment, pain perception, and communication in ways many are rarely taught to anticipate.

This webinar introduces harm reduction as a practical, beginner-friendly approach to kink safety, focusing on both the mind and the body. Throughout, we will focus on core safety principles that support informed consent, bodily awareness, and psychological well-being.

Topics include:

• Basic physical safety principles for common mainstream practices
• How altered states in kink affect perception, pain, and decision-making
• Safewords, non-verbal signals, and what to do when someone cannot speak
• Negotiation and consent tools that account for intensity and headspace
• Red and yellow flags related to both physical and emotional risk
• Grounding, pacing, and aftercare as preventative safety practices

This session is designed for people new to kink, seasoned practitioners who want to refresh their knowledge on the basics, and everyone in between. No prior experience is required. This workshop is taught through a trauma-aware and neurodivergent-friendly lens.

Trauma Play: A Research Deep Dive

This class introduces trauma play through a trauma-aware, kink-affirmative lens. The general breakdown of the class is as follows: explaining what trauma play is, how it functions, why people engage in it, and how pleasure, consent, and intentionality (can!) shape the healing process. With that, we also delve into what ‘healing’ entails, how it’s defined, and the potential pitfalls of using kink for that purpose without research, communication, and proper mental health support. I also walk the class through the historical stigma surrounding kink, contemporary research findings (simplified to be accessible to a wider audience), and findings from my latest, soon-to-be-published study that goes deeper into people’s lived narratives and the emotional, physical, and cognitive processes they describe when engaging in trauma play.

The class is meant to give people an evidence-based understanding of trauma play as a practice that, when done safely, can support trauma processing and posttraumatic growth, while also allowing them to understand potential risks + leave with access to kink-aware and -affirming mental health resources and knowledge on how to find kink-aware therapists and health professionals to support them.

Erotic Hypnosis 101

This is an introductory workshop which provides a foundational overview of erotic hypnosis. Participants will learn basic principles of hypnotic communication, suggestion, and trance states. The class covers consent practices, negotiation, and psychological safety when incorporating hypnosis into play. I also introduce simple hypnotic techniques that can be incorporated into scenes, and tips on how to maintain clear boundaries and ongoing consent throughout.

Ethical Brainwashing: Conditioning and Training in Long-Term Kink Dynamics

This class ideally requires a basic understanding of erotic hypnosis/long-term training (For the two-hour class, I can add in a short basics section. This can also pair very well with Erotic Hypnosis 101 as a two-part series).

This class explores the use and impact of conditioning, behavioral training, and ritual in power-exchange dynamics. Drawing on psychology research on conditioning, neuroplasticity, habit formation, and identity development, it examines how partners can intentionally build routines, cues, and reinforcement structures within long-term dynamics. It also introduces relevant psychological concepts such as classical and operant conditioning, habit formation, and reinforcement patterns, then connects them to kink-specific practices such as protocol, cue-based behaviors, reward systems, and corrective feedback. It heavily emphasizes how training structures evolve over months and years rather than through short, scene-based interactions.

Participants will discuss how to design training frameworks that support stability, growth, and sustainability within the relationship. Topics include: establishing rituals that reinforce roles, building reliable behavioral cues, developing accountability systems, and integrating training with daily life to mitigate potential codependency. Practical discussion focuses on maintaining active consent over time, ongoing renegotiation, transparency about psychological influence, and the importance of care when working with techniques that can deeply affect a partner’s sense of self.

Total Power Exchange Dynamics: The Unsexy Logistics

This class explores the structure and lived experience of Total Power Exchange relationships. Participants will examine how authority is structured and practiced in relationships where power exchange extends into many/all aspects of daily life. This includes the responsibilities involved in holding authority, the emotional containment often required of Dominants, and the ways submissive partners actively contribute to the dynamic's functioning through service, accountability, and communication.

The class also addresses the practical and legal considerations that often arise when partners choose to integrate power exchange into broader areas of life. Topics include the limits of kink contracts in legal systems, the role of written agreements as tools for clarity and negotiation, and the actual legal instruments that can be used to reinforce the dynamic as well as mitigate risks (such as notarized contracts, NDAs, powers of attorney, medical powers of attorney, wills, and other forms of legal delegation). Participants will also discuss financial considerations that can arise in long-term authority-based dynamics, including shared decision-making, financial oversight, and safeguards that protect both partners.

24/7 Dominance: Burnout Prevention

This workshop addresses the emotional and logistical demands of lifestyle dominance. Participants will explore common sources of overwhelm, including emotional containment, decision fatigue, and responsibility for structure within ongoing dynamics. The class offers practical strategies for pacing authority, maintaining communication, and building systems that support consistency without exhausting the Dominant partner. Discussion includes ways submissive partners can meaningfully support the sustainability of the dynamic.

Conditioning Fear: When Aversion Becomes Structure

This class builds directly on classical/operant conditioning principles to look specifically at fear as something that can be intentionally built into a dynamic rather than only summoned scene-to-scene. It covers how fear responses get conditioned through repeated pairing (a cue, a tone, a specific kind of silence) and what separates a fear response that stays contained and erotic from one that generalizes past the scene and into the relationship itself. Practical content includes designing fear cues deliberately instead of letting them form by accident, recognizing early signs that a conditioned fear response is bleeding into someone's baseline anxiety, and building in the deconditioning or “off switch” work that almost nobody talks about, since most conditioning content assumes you only ever want to build the response, not know how to unwind it if it stops serving the dynamic.

Kink and Neurodivergence

This class explores the overlap of kink dynamics and practice, and neurodivergent experiences. Drawing on community discourse, personal accounts, and practical observations, the class introduces the ways in which neurodivergence can influence communication styles, protocols, sensory processing, and power-exchange structures. Participants will discuss negotiation strategies, accessibility considerations, and ways dynamics can be adapted to support neurodivergent partners within kink relationships.

Receiving Service – What does service feel like to you?

Service sometimes gets talked about constantly from the giving end, what a submissive wants to offer, how to structure protocol, what “good service” looks like in practice. Let us flip the lens onto the person receiving it. Service isn’t just something a submissive wants to do. Service, using its very definition, demands that it serves the person receiving it, and that distinction changes everything about how a dynamic gets built. This class is targeted towards Doms (and open to all) and works through how to actually identify what service feels like to you specifically (not what it’s supposed to look like, not what’s most efficient, but what genuinely makes you feel served), and why “efficient” and “satisfying” are often two different things entirely. A submissive optimizing for speed or correctness can still miss the mark completely if what actually pleases their Dominant is something slower, more deliberate, or less obviously “productive.” The goal is for participants to leave with language for naming their own preferences around service, and a framework for communicating that back to a partner instead of assuming it’ll be intuited.

Idealization in Trance: The Hypnotic Dominant as Perfect Object

Trance is a fast track to idealization. When erotic hypnosis is used within a D/s dynamic, the trance state itself can accelerate how “perfect” a submissive experiences their Dominant as being, more certain, more infallible, more all-encompassing than any Dominant actually is. While that’s not automatically a problem, it does mean the Dominant has to actively manage the gap between that idealized image and their real, fallible self, especially once a partner’s idealization starts outpacing how comfortable the Dominant actually is holding it. This class covers the mechanics of how suggestion under trance speeds up idealization compared to waking-state dynamics, and how to intentionally “de-idealize” outside of scene so the dynamic doesn’t calcify into something neither partner actually agreed to.