ABSTRACT
Clinical best practices with kinky clients require therapists who can acknowledge as well as understand distress and dysfunction in the context of discrimination and stigma rather than simply eliminating it by “curing” the client as a therapeutic goal (Kleinplatz & Moser, 2004). Evaluating and raising consciousness of the therapist’s own bias born from normative/ mainstream cultural constructs enables therapists to effectively apply the following clinical best practices toward this goal.
