
Culture of Respect Webinar: The Role of Kink and BDSM in Healing from Sexual Shame
Includes a Live Web Event on 06/23/2025 at 12:00 PM (EDT)
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Julia Hagen
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Julia Hagen (she/her), is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Minnesota specializing in relationships, sexuality, and identity, and trained in the Anchored Relational Therapy Model for processing trauma and dissociation with a focus on neurological, developmental, and person-centered treatment intervention. Julia’s clinical practice includes individual and couples’ therapy with a systemic feminist framework and focuses on issues relating to sexuality and gender, sense of self, sexual behaviors and pleasures, kink, BDSM, non-monogamy and polyamory, and sexual shame.
Julia has a background in developing and facilitating workshops and courses relating to identity, sexuality, and gender-based violence including workshop development and facilitation for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Leadership and Involvement, Kansas State University Center for Advocacy, Response and Education, and adjunct teaching undergraduate level Human Sexuality within K-State’s College of Health and Human Sciences.
Culture of Respect's webinar The Role of Kink and BDSM in Healing from Sexual Trauma explores what is and isn't kink, with specific focus on the role of developmental, neurological, chemical, and dissociative factors in consenting to and engaging in kink / BDSM practices. Participants will address the role that kink and BDSM activities play in sexual identities and behaviors of some people who have experienced sexual trauma, and ways that these practices may be healing or harming depending on the established understanding of the factors covered. Finally, participants will understand some of the key practices that individuals and systems cam employ to engage in kink and BDSM activities to encourage ongoing and informed consent, particularly for individuals with a history of sexual trauma.