High quality human sexuality education and training for professionals since 2011
If you are looking for a place for your learning that is inclusive, holistic, cutting edge, and humanistic, welcome home to the Institute for Sex Education & Enlightenment, ISEE.
You don’t need another college degree to receive excellent professional development and skills training in the fields of sexual health, education, counseling and therapy.
Do you crave a spiritual connection or component in your learning?
Do you need a safer space for all of your identities?
Are you looking for certification or an AASECT-approved training program?*
Do you crave community in your work?
Do you want to learn from the very top people in the field?
We provide like-minded community to learn and grow, exceptional instructors who teach about the whole person, staff to help you through the journey, access to incredible supervisors, and networking for your business.
This is how we make your life better at ISEE:
At ISEE, we accomplish this through:
- Hiring or contracting vendors, staff and faculty who share our values and present classes with social justice, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), and holistic lenses
- Embodied exercises
- Attention to your mental, spiritual, physical and emotional health
- Fair financial practices to enrich all people involved (including ISEE and AASECT*)
- Valuing relationships above other concerns
Our holistic and inclusive approach makes us unique. We've successfully graduated students all over the world since 2011.
We're also an AASECT (American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists) approved CE provider*.
Sexuality Education Trainings:
Our Holistic Sex Education Training Program HSET
offers over 200 hours of comprehensive training in Holistic Sex Education. Our embodied approach is backed by research and offers superior learning and integration with practice. You will also receive access to supervision. You can use all of these hours toward AASECT certification.
Sex Therapy and Counseling Programs:
Our Holistic Sex Therapy Training Program
offers over 200 hours of comprehensive training in holistic methods of sex therapy and counseling. This program is for those who are already a counselor, therapist or clinician, or in the second year of a graduate program. You will receive access to reduced-rate supervision. You may use all of these hours toward AASECT certification*.
Our Advancing Clinical Education in Sexuality (ACES) Program
offers 30 hours of recorded classes, and is for any clinician or health care professional who wants professional training in human sexuality. All classes offer AASECT CE’s*. The program can be started immediately and classes can be taken in any time zone, at any time.
Online Classes & Webinars
At ISEE, we offer more than 100 online streaming classes and recorded webinars about human sexuality, BDSM, Tantra and sacred sexuality, relationships, LGBTQIA as well as many other subjects that anyone over 18 can take at any time. Our streaming classes allow you to meet others and network in group discussions in every class.
In-Person Classes
ISEE opened up in-person classes in fall of 2022. You can choose the option to take classes face-to-face in Northampton, Massachusetts in July of 2023. Classes offer up to 36 AASECT* and ISEE CE’s. Please see below for our offerings.
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This program meets the requirements for the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) and is approved for CE credits. These CE credits may be applied toward AASECT Certification and renewal of certification. Institute for Sexuality Education & Enlightenment, Provider #11-113-C. Completion of this program does not ensure or guarantee AASECT Certification. For further information please contact [email protected].