ABSTRACT
As professional sexuality therapists, educators, grassroots activists, and other outreach workers strive to improve the quality of life, love, relationships, and pleasure with clients, we must recognize the contexts in which they exist. These same power structures, minority stressors, and compounding oppressions that impact professionals and clients are also present during the clinical training and supervision processes. In this chapter the authors collaborate to explore aspects of clinical training and supervision across countries, cultures, ethnicities, sexualities, genders, and more. Using a systemic approach and interviewing each other, they explore their own experiences as therapists and supervisors, as well as their relationships as supervisor-in-training and supervisor-of-supervision. The themes they explore focus on intersectionality, minority stress, negotiating power imbalances, and best practices within clinical supervision, therapy for sexual issues, and sexuality education.
