Professional Consultations2022-09-19T16:32:31+00:00

professional consultations

Professional Consultations with Yana are perfect for therapists, workshop facilitators, educators, and students. 

With over a decade of experience working successfully as a professional sex educator, Yana brings a unique perspective to work with her therapy & coaching clients that is pleasure-positive, sex-knowledgable, consent-forward, and open & educated about alternative relational topics such as non-monogamy, kink, sex work, and recovering one’s sexuality after sexual assault.

Professional consultations are 60-minute, confidential video call sessions. When possible, please book your session 1-2 weeks in advance of when you’d like to meet as my schedule fills quickly.

Consultation Pricing: $200/hour for professionals & $150/hour for student.

topics that are a great fit for Professional Consultations are:

If you are a therapeutic, educational, or other helping professional and are feeling stuck, curious, or wary about working with any of these common client issues, book your consultation today and utilize Yana’s expertise about topics such as:

  • non-monogamy, polyamory, and open relationships
  • kink, BDSM, and other alternative sexual explorations
  • sex toy education or other sex & sexuality resources
  • destigmatizing your work with clients who are themselves or are in relationships with professional sex workers
  • working with LGBTQ+ individuals and relationships 
  • empowering clients to reclaim their sex lives after sexual trauma

Why Consult with Yana?

 

Yana Tallon-Hicks, LMFT is a relationships therapist as well as a consent, sex & sexuality writer and educator living in Western Massachusetts. Her work centers around the belief that pleasure-positive & consent-based sex education can positively impact our lives and the world.

In her private therapy practice she works primarily with LGBTQ+, kinky, and non-monogamous clients with a focus on sex & sexuality topics, non-monogamous relationship structures, and healthy relationship repair. She’s been working therapeutically with clients since earning her Masters Degree in Marriage & Family Therapy in 2017.

Yana has been working as an independent sex educator for ten years and writing sex & relationship advice for nine. Her workshops about sexual pleasure, communication & consent are taught at colleges, high schools, and sex toy shops all over New England. She has delivered guest lectures, keynote speeches, and even a TEDxTalk in Vienna, Austria about her work.

Read more about Yana & her work here, where you can also read testimonials about her work, read her sex advice column, follow her on Instagram & Twitter, and watch her TEDxTalk: Is the Porn Brain Our New Sex Educator?.