Stefani Goerlich

Stefani Goerlich, PhD, LMSW-Clinical, CST, is the multi-award winning author of The Leather Couch: Clinical Practice with Kinky Clients, and its forthcoming sequel Kink Affirming Practice: Culturally Competent Therapy from the Leather Chair. Stefani is an expert in working with gender, relationship, and sexuality diversities as well as members of minority faith traditions and folks with religious trauma. Stefani has worked with high-risk young people, commercial sex workers, and survivors of human trafficking and has over 15 years’ experience in supporting survivors of domestic and sexual trauma. Currently, she owns and operates Bound Together Counseling, PLLC. where she offers sex, relationship and mental health therapy to members of the GSRD community, their partners, and their families in Michigan, Ohio, and Arizona. Stefani serves on the editorial review board of the Journal of Counselling Sexology & Sexual Wellness: Research, Practice, and Education