Speaking Engagements and Professional Affiliations

 

Speaking.

I speak regularly in clinical setting, at research conferences and public events on the intersection of sex, psychology, public policy and law. If you would like me to speak at your event, please contact me at elliott@elliottendre.com

Latest course: Wright Institute Master of Arts in Psychology Program, Sexual and Gender Health and Development, Summer 2025-26

San Francisco Graduate Department of Counseling, COUN859-01, Sexuality in Counseling, Spring 2023-24

Lecture Examples:

Berkley Therapy Institute (BTI), Spectacle, Pathology, and Power: The Colonial Roots of Sexuality in Psychology, November 2025

California Institute for Integral Studies (CIIS), Sexual Attitudes Reassessment (SAR), Gender Spectrum, Panel lead by Dr. Carol Queen, September 11, 2022.


Western Institute for Social Research (WISR), 10th annual conference, On Therapy and Activism: “Cultural Gaslighting and “Real Work”; the psychosocial implications of SESTA-FOSTA”, Panel lead by Rosa Reinikainen LMFT, Oct 7th 2018
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Center for Sex and Culture Film and Art Festival, 10th biennial conference, Caucus on Holistic healing and Sex Work, co-lead Bree Zimmerman M.A., April 25th, 2017
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Affiliations.

  • American Association of Educators and Sex Therapists (AASECT)

  • Bay Area Open Minds: therapy professionals who support sexual and gender diversity (BAOM)

  • Community-Academic Consortium for Research on Alternative Sexualities (CARAS)

  • The California Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (CAMFT)

  • GAYLESTA: a psychotherapist association for gender and sexual diversity

    Ongoing Training.

  • Ongoing sex therapy supervision with Fiona O’Farrell PhD, MFT, CST-S

  • Ongoing sex therapy supervision with Soleil Merrior LCSW-CST

  • Trainee at the Institute for Archetypal and Cross-Cultural studies, with Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés Réyes

Press.

“Should Prostitution Be a Crime? A growing movement of sex workers and activists is making the decriminalization of sex work a feminist issue.” - New York Times, May 2016

 
 

 “While much psychology emphasizes the familial causes of angst in humans, the cultural component carries as much weight, for culture is the family of the family. If the family of the family has various sicknesses, then all families within that culture will have to struggle with the same malaises. There is a saying cultura cura, culture cures. If the culture is a healer, the families learn how to heal; they will struggle less, be more reparative, far less wounding, far more graceful and loving.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés