Dates: October 16th-19th
Location: Atlantic City/Brigantine, NJ
Cost: $250
By weaving our knowledge and perspectives, we’ll shape an experience that’s as expansive as it is unforgettable. Think retreat, but reimagined: collaborative, energizing, and bursting with shared brilliance!
The Sexuality Spectrum Summit is a space for you to take the mic. Participants will present a topic, idea, or theory they’re excited about—whether it’s in the early stages of development or something ready for a wider audience.
Each presentation will count for AASECT (American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists) CEU hours. Following each talk, there will be a collaborative feedback and discussion, creating a warm, supportive space for growth. Whether you’re workshopping a one-hour webinar or a full-day training, the goal is to polish your ideas into offerings that can later be shared, marketed, and sold through various markets or through the PhilaTherapy Education Network.
from thoughtful, trusted peers to help you refine your ideas into professional-quality workshops
to ensure you continue to meet requirements for certification
as a teacher, facilitator, or public speaker
advancing sexual healing and education
The 2026 Sexuality Spectrum Summit is designed for members of The PhilaTherapy Network. However, we are looking to see if there is interest in expanding this opportunity to everyone.
If you are a sex & relationship professional (or budding professional) and would like to attend a gathering like this, send us an email and we will include you in the invite list for this Summit.
We haven’t selected this year’s presenters yet. We would love to consider you!
A Trans Perspective: Queering love languages to Center Trans Joy - This presentation will consider the 5 traditional love languages developed by Gary Chapman and compare them to new ideas of how love can be expressed/ received. It will investigate the differences between normative and non-normative relationship structures. It will discuss how the realities of relationships within minority and marginalized populations, namely LGBTQIA+ communities, differ from straight and cisgender relationships. Finally, it will introduce alternate and additional styles of communicating love that center trans and queer euphoria, joy, and resilience.
Politics, Pleasure, and the Patriarchy: We will review the history of patriarchy and break down medical gender bias specifically around women and women-presenting people in the U.S., discuss how beauty culture and capitalism work hand-in-hand to distract and keep us away from power, and analyze how the crumbling democracy in the United States was created by design to allow White Christian nationalism to rule. As a sex therapist and educator, my passion has been providing permission to all people who wish to experience sexual pleasure and joy. Throughout the process of helping people find and access their desires, needs, and wants, I've seen the gaps in education around how systems have created an oppressive world for the majority of people.
Into the Open Space: Finding Our Voices as Therapists - Our training teaches us to listen, and the fears unique to our work, like "who am I to say this?" or "what if a client hears it?", often keep us there. In this opening session, we invite each participant to step into the open space and fill it with their own voice. You'll rehearse the opening of your talk with a peer, notice where you sound most like yourself, and practice giving and receiving feedback in a way that builds confidence rather than critique. We close in a circle where every voice is heard and welcomed, which sets the tone for a weekend that's challenging and healing at the same time.
Into the Open Space: Finding Our Voices as Therapists - Our training teaches us to listen, and the fears unique to our work, like "who am I to say this?" or "what if a client hears it?", often keep us there. In this opening session, we invite each participant to step into the open space and fill it with their own voice. You'll rehearse the opening of your talk with a peer, notice where you sound most like yourself, and practice giving and receiving feedback in a way that builds confidence rather than critique. We close in a circle where every voice is heard and welcomed, which sets the tone for a weekend that's challenging and healing at the same time.
The PhilaTherapy Network is a compassionate group of:
Sex therapists and mental health professionals
Sexuality educators and coaches
Somatic and body-based practitioners
TPN is a community offering business support for private practice, beautiful office space and supervision to clinicians in Pennsylvania.
TPEN provides a platform for members of TPN to create dynamic educational content focusing on sex & relationship therapy assessment and application skills.
