The Polyamory Aware Therapy Certification Institute Program is designed to teach health care, mental health, and public health providers how to work with polyamory families. Poly Aware Therapists (PAT) have additional postgraduate training about alternative relationship expression via, books, articles, continuing education, seminars, websites, etc.
Program Objectives:
Understand the ethnographic concepts of open relationships, alternative relationships, communities and their role, as a medical provider, in their care.
Understand the difference between healthy polyamory and unethical non monogamy
Learn therapeutic interventions and common issues seen with open relationships
Ethical and Legal Issues related to open relationships
Evaluation of the science and research of polyamory
Special topics and ethical challenges when working with alternative relationship styles clients.
Parenting and Polyamory
Power Exchange and Polyamory
Marketing and Business Practice
Program Requirements:
- 18 years of age or older
- Completion of school application process
- Recommendation from instructor of work supervisor
- For therapist recognition, the student must be a licensed therapist
Level I Certification: Fundamentals of Kink
KTCI 101 – FUNDAMENTALS OF KINK – 6 Hrs
This course is designed to give medical and mental health professionals an introduction of the various types of alternative relationship and sexual cultures that they will encounter in their medical or therapeutic practice. It will also present the current position of sexual medicine and research in the United States.
Class Hours: 6 Hrs
KTCI 102 – KINK COMMUNITIES AND CULTURE – 6 Hrs
This course is an ethnographic examination of kink culture and subcultures of the kink communities.
Class Hours: 6 Hrs
Price: $300
Level 2 Certification: Ethical Non Monogamy Fundamentals
KTCI 103 – Ethical Non-Monogamy I: Fundamentals and the Science of Open Relationships
This course is a foundation class for understanding and navigation of various non- monogamous relationships.
Class Hours: 6 Hrs
KTCI 104 – Ethical Non-Monogamy II: Working with Open Relationships
This course will focus on how to work with non-monogamous clients. Ethics, pathology, interventions and case studies will be included. Course includes tools and interventions used with Ethical Non-Monogamous Clients.
Class Hours: 6 Hrs
Price: $300
Level 3 Certification: Parenting and Family Therapy Tools in Open Relationships
KTCI 300 Pregnancy and Poly
This course is designed to give mental health professionals an overview of the conversations, preparation, and situations that accompany a pregnancy in a Polycule.
Course Hours: 6
KTCI 302 The Care and Feeding of Poliwogs
This course describes what it means to be a poly parent such as whether to come out to family members, what it means for children to grow up in a Polycule, and legal considerations.
People who take this course will be able to discuss the differences and similarities of raising children in a poly household versus a blended family
Course Hours: 6
Price: $300
Level 4 Certification: Power Exchange in Polyamory
KCTI 309 Power Bonds: Power Exchange in Polyamory
This course explains what can happen when the worlds of ethical non-monogamy and BDSM blend together. It will also provide guidance on how to blend these worlds together.
Course Hours: 6
KAT 109 – Negotiation, Boundaries, and Contracts
This course is an introduction and examination of negotiation techniques; boundaries and relationships/ play contracts as they related to clients who participate in kink related activities.
Class Hours: 6 Hrs
Price: $300
Level 5 Certification: Rules, Laws, and Ethics and Intimate Partner Violence
KTCI 108 – Kinky Laws, Rules, and Ethics
This course is an examination of professional ethics and laws as they relate to working with kinky clients.
Class Hours: 6 Hrs
KTCI 402 Intimate Partner Violence: Hidden Victims of Sexual, Gender, and Relationship Minorities and Special Populations
The Mental Health Community’s efforts to address domestic and intimate partner violence (DIPV) have often neglected members of the kink, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBTQ+) populations and men. Heterosexual women are primarily targeted for DIPV screening, community support and intervention despite the similar or greater prevalence of DIPV in GLBTQ+ individuals and its detrimental mental and physical health affects. In this course we will highlight the burden of DIPV in KLGBT relationships, discuss how LGBTQ+ and traditional heterosexual relationships, discuss how LGBTQ+ and traditional heterosexual DIPV differ, and outline steps clinicians can take to address DIPV in their LGBTQ+ patients.
Class Hours: 6 Hrs
Price: $300
Board Certified Polyamory Aware Therapy Professional
TBA