Dates: July 25–27, 2025
Philadelphia, PA
Location: The Federal House, Philadelphia, PA
Cost: $150/night
This isn’t your typical conference.
This is a peer-led meeting of the minds exclusively for members of The PhilaTherapy Network.
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 be followed by 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 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 2025 Sexuality Spectrum Summit is exclusively 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 our next Summit!
If you’ve ever worked with clients who feel like their behavior (especially if it’s sexual) is out of control, you’ve probably heard them say something like “I don’t want to keep doing this but I couldn’t stop myself!” Our clients feel helpless and we, as their therapist, might feel helpless too. What if the critical moments after an out of control sexual experience wasn’t a time for judgment or re-establishing control—but for healing?
This one-hour workshop reimagines a pivotal phase of the shame cycle through the lens of compassion-focused therapy, shame-resilience, trauma-informed care, and BDSM-informed aftercare practices as a way to create space for meaningful change.
Dr. Wood is a Sex & Relationship Therapist with over 17 years of experience. He is a certified sex therapist and certified sex therapy supervisor through AASECT. Having been warmly titled the “shame slayer” by some clients, Dr. Wood uses compassion-focused approaches in his work to reconnect people with their authentic self – honoring their dignity and autonomy at every step of the journey.
This training equips licensed professionals to support trans youth, adults, and their families by building trauma-informed, evidence-based, anti-oppressive and bioethically conscious clinical practices rooted in curiosity, compassion, and accountability. Participants will deepen their understanding of trans lived realities, learn to navigate family dynamics across lines of difference, and develop tools to disrupt disinformation, affirm individual autonomy, and maintain therapeutic integrity.
Daya offers radically inclusive, trauma-informed therapy grounded in IFS, supporting individuals, couples, and families—especially those navigating identity, marginalization, and transformative life transitions. With deep roots in queer, trans, neurodivergent, and diasporic communities, Daya creates a space where all Parts are welcome and every story is honored with care and curiosity.
Talia M. Hoke, MA, MFT is a dedicated and relational therapist who brings warmth, cultural humility, and deep presence to her work with individuals, couples, and families. With a background in Marriage and Family Therapy and a passion for supporting BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ communities, Talia creates spaces where clients feel seen, affirmed, and empowered. Her approach is collaborative and holistic, integrating systemic thinking, trauma-informed care, and identity-focused exploration. Talia specializes in helping clients navigate anxiety, depression, relational conflict, intergenerational trauma, and life transitions with curiosity and compassion. She believes in each person’s capacity for healing and growth and walks alongside clients as they reconnect with their voice, values, and sense of possibility.
This presentation will provide an overview of obsessive-compulsive disorder as well as gold standard assessment and treatment strategies. OCD centered on sexual orientation, gender identity, and relationship uncertainty, as well as how OCD might present in couples, will be a focus of the presentation.
Andrew G M Guzick, PhD, is a clinical psychologist specializing in evidence-based therapy for children, adolescents, adults, and their families struggling with OCD, anxiety disorders, and misophonia. At each step of his career, he has been fortunate to work, conduct research, and train in world-class OCD and anxiety specialty centers, where he has provided scientifically supported and compassionate therapy for people struggling with these problems.
How do we open ourselves, and our clients, to embodying deeper self-insight? By first acknowledging the body’s wisdom, we can then begin to see body, perhaps for the first time, as a wise and helpful companion in our healing.
We will practice a few tools that you can integrate into your life and therapeutic room immediately as well as introduce advanced applications of somatic practices and approaches for trauma, sex therapy, and discernment.
Letecia M. Garcia, MA, LPC, CISTT (she/her) is a liberation and embodiment centered professional healing companion, specializing in alchemizing trauma and empowering ways of living and understanding that foster connection, discernment, and fulfillment, for self and collective. Acknowledging our inherent multiplicity, she practices at the intersection of identities, from sexuality and gender to race and lifestyle – the personal is political.
This workshop is a space to explore how IFS and EMDR can naturally weave into sex therapy work. We’ll talk through real-life cases, share ideas, and reflect together on how these trauma-informed approaches can help create the kind of spaciousness clients need to go inward—gently, safely, and at their own pace. Whether you’re newer to these models or use them every day, this will be a collaborative, grounded conversation about how we support healing, embodiment, and connection in our work.
Ben Rathsmill, LMFT is a sex therapist and trauma-informed relational clinician based in Philadelphia. He integrates IFS, EMDR, and systems thinking to help clients reconnect with their bodies, desires, and relationships.
This workshop will map out the swamp of gender roles that parents navigate as they learn, negotiate, and divide parenting responsibilities. Many people find that, when they become parents, often contradictory messages about gender expectations are impossible to ignore. Awareness of the gendered messages parents receive can inform couples therapists as they guide both straight and queer clients toward more equitable and effective coparenting.
Terrence Lubin is a queer transgender man, a parent, a teacher, and a social worker. He provides therapy for individuals, couples, and families, with a focus on supporting parents in parenting. His background in early childhood education, infant-toddler early intervention, and parent coaching informs his work. Terrence sees clients in person in Fort Washington, PA.
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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.
