BECOME AN
EXCEPTIONAL
SEX THERAPIST
Expansive professional development for socially conscious clinicians.
Our Mission:
Everyone Deserves Sex Therapy (EDST) believes that everyone deserves affirming and expansive sex therapy that prioritizes humanity over pathology. Our goal is to help therapists and clinicians divest from outdated and harmful clinical norms and equip them with innovative practices and progressive approaches to treating clients’ mental, sexual, and relational challenges. From professional development to sex therapy certification, EDST offers socially conscious, justice-oriented trainings designed to elevate the sex therapy field’s norms, standards, and practices.
EDST is an approved provider of continuing education (CE) credits for the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT). These CE credits can be used toward AASECT certification and renewal.
Our Services:
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Online Sex Therapy Certification
EDST offers an online sex therapy certification for emerging and established clinicians. This justice-oriented professional credential decenters pathology, divests from the mental health industrial complex, and provides progressive tools, practices, and perspectives. Coming in November 2025!
Our Sexual Attitude Reassessment (SAR) is a unique professional development experience that helps attendees evaluate and examine their beliefs and value systems around sexuality, autonomy, race, identity, relationship dynamics, and more.
Our professional development and continuing education offerings enable clinicians to maintain their credentials while continuing to invest in forward-thinking approaches to treating mental, sexual, and relational challenges.
This self-led business coaching program is designed to help clinicians jump-start their business, launch that new course, refine their vision, or get closer to accomplishing their professional goals – especially the ones that have felt overwhelming or out of reach.
“Transformation is not magic. It’s hard work. But it is also doable work. When we can see another person’s labor toward their transformation, we know it is not some secret sauce but instead a daily commitment to a new way of life.”
Who is EDST?
Everyone Deserves Sex Therapy (EDST) was founded by AASECT-certified sexuality educator Anne Hodder-Shipp, CSE, (she/they pronouns) in collaboration with AASECT-certified sex therapist and Supervisor of Sex Therapy Paula Leech, LMFT, CST, CSTS, (she/her pronouns) to serve emerging and established clinicians in the sexuality field.
Hodder-Shipp has worked in the sexuality field since 2007, first as a journalist and then a marketing consultant supporting adult retailers, distributors, and manufacturers via Hodder Media Inc. In 2015, Hodder-Shipp created Everyone Deserves Sex Ed (EDSE), a division of Hodder Media Inc. that provides sex education classes, business consulting, and a now-world-renowned sex educator certification that equips adults of all experience levels with the knowledge, skills, and tools they need to help make radical change in their communities. In 2022, reproductive justice organization Power to Decided named Hodder-Shipp a “Power Player” and the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT) honored Hodder-Shipp with the Professional Standard of Excellence Award.
Hodder-Shipp is also the author of Speaking from the Heart: 18 Languages for Modern Love and its accompanying workbook, The Speaking from the Heart Workbook: A Practical Guide to the 18 Modern Love Languages, which offers an expansive revamp of the love language concept that centers platonic love, de-emphasizes romance, and intentionally challenges gender, sexuality, and relationship norms.
Meet Anne
She’s the sex educator you wish you’d had in school. Learn more about Anne’s professional values here.
