Pathology, Ab*se, Trauma, or Kink? Unblurring the Lines

Live Session Info & Registration

🗓️ October 17th, 16:00 EST
📍Online Class, Recording available for 30 days days
🔗 The link is shared 24h prior to the class, to the email you register with

Pre-requisites & Materials:

• Something to write with and on.
• Basic familiarity with kink dynamics, consent frameworks, and scene negotiation is assumed.
• An ability to distinguish between personal experience, interpretation, and clinical concepts is helpful.
• Personal disclosure is never required.
• Participants may engage with the material without sharing their own experiences.

Note: This is a theoritical educational class, not psychotherapy, trauma treatment, or individual clinical assessment.

Warning: Trauma, ab*se & harmful kink dynamics are being discussed as part of the class.

Class Level: Intermediate

About the class:

In the last decades we’ve seen the pendulum swing between “kink is a mental health problem” to “a spanking session is a healing session”, and from calling a dedicated kinkster a pervert (in a bad way), into regarding them as something between an intellectual, a savante and a therapist. Many times, the one seems to coexist with the other, creating a twisted landscape of inner and outer confusion, guilt and misunderstanding.

But how can we make an informed distinction between a pathology which uses the vestige of kink, an abusive situation and a situation which is possibly traumatizing when the lines blur, and when truth is complex? In this class we will explore this topic in theory, as well as through learning to listen to the cues of our body.

Our goal? To create the needed space for safety, healing and pleasure within our informed capacity.

About Your Facilitator:

Sylvastra is a kink-aware mental health counselor and educator with over ten years of professional experience. Her work focuses on the integration of psychological support, embodied awareness, and ethical, consent-based approaches within therapeutic and educational settings.

She holds a Master’s degree in Health Promotion and Education, with academic training grounded in public health, pedagogy, and psychosocial wellbeing. Her interdisciplinary background also includes a degree in Integrative Mental Health Counselling and a degree in Agricultural Biotechnology, shaping a holistic, systems-oriented perspective on human health, behavior, and resilience.

Sylvastra’s educational work includes teaching Esoteric Energy Healing, and she is a member of INEH. Her approach emphasizes trauma-aware frameworks, reflective practice, and responsible engagement across psychological and esoteric disciplines.

Find her work on Insta: @KarissaHealing