- FOR EDUCATORS, PROFESSIONALS, INSTITUTIONS, & KINKSTERS
TICK
The only Kink and BDSM consent framework built at the intersection of trauma-informed practice, harm reduction, and lived experience. Designed for clinicians, educators, and organizations who need more from consent.
A framework your clients already need you to know.
An estimated 1 in 4 adults engages in consensual kink or BDSM. Most kinksters, therapists, and sexuality educators have received no training on how trauma and kink intersect from lived experience.
TICK is a reflective BDSM/Kink framework designed to deepen self and relational awareness at the intersections of consent, pleasure, safety, and trauma/harm.
What is TICK?
Not a step-by-step guide, but a set of tools and reflections
Draws from lived experience in these streets + social justice approaches
Holds the complexity of consent—both binaries and nuance
Names stigma, healing, and the politics of trauma-informed approaches
Invites us to decolonize how we see pleasure and trauma
Offers a more intentional lens for navigating consent in BDSM/kink
A framework for practitioners, educators, and institutions doing the work.
For therapists, social workers, somatic practitioners, and counselors whose clients disclose kink and need a practitioner who doesn't pathologize it.
Sex therapists & LCSWs
Trauma-informed practitioners
Somatic & body-based therapists
Mental health counselors (LPCs)
For human sexuality programs, counseling psychology departments, and social work schools that need a rigorous, intersectional consent framework for coursework.
Human sexuality programs
Counseling & psychology grad programs
Social work schools
Public health & health education
For sexuality conferences, kink organizations, dungeon spaces, and BDSM conferences that want structured, credentialed education anchored in community accountability.
Sexuality conferences or trainings (AASECT, SHA, etc)
BDSM & leather organizations
Kink play spaces & dungeons
Kink education conferences
Harm reduction organizations
TICK also serves sex workers, bodyworkers, kink educators, dungeon monitors, newbies, and play partners — anyone navigating consent, pleasure, and harm in these spaces. The ebook and TICK 101 course were built for you too.
TICK was born in community, and it still lives there. The ebook and TICK 101 course are available to everyone — with sliding scale pricing available. Select VIEW PRODUCT for discount codes.
--- WORK TOGETHER
Whether you're a solo practitioner or an institution building a curriculum, there's a way in.
Most Requested
Candace brings the TICK framework to your conference, institution, or organization — with lived expertise, academic rigor, and TEDx credibility your audience recognizes.
Conference keynotes & breakout sessions
University guest lectures & department workshops
Organizational trainings — virtual or in-person
Half-day & full-day intensives available
Customized for clinical, academic, or community audiences
Bring TICK into your program, organization, or conference as a licensed framework. Includes bulk access to materials plus consultation on integration.
University curriculum licensing
Conference attendee bulk access
Organizational membership packages
Consultation on integrating TICK into existing programming
Pricing scaled to your institution's size
One-on-one or small group consultation for therapists, counselors, and social workers navigating kink disclosure in practice. Not supervision — applied guidance from 20+ years of lived and studied expertise.
Individual practitioner consultation (60 min)
Small group case consultation cohorts
How to apply TICK in your clinical setting
Kink-affirming practice development
the crossroads is a space of decision, responsibility, and possibility. In Blackness, it represents a sacred site of transformation, reckoning, and choice — it removes the mask and exposes it all.
Trauma-Informed Consensual Kink sits at the crossroads — the meeting point of consent, safety, pleasure, and trauma. This intersection reflects the real tensions and truths we carry into our bodies, experiences, and dynamics.
"What must I bring forward in this moment?"
"What is being asked of me right now?"
"Who am I when no one is witnessing?"
The Framework
Trauma-Informed Consensual Kink (TICK) builds on traditional BDSM frameworks like Safe, Sane, and Consensual (SSC) Risk-Aware Consensual Kink (RACK), and 4C's.
TICK adds a trauma layer that community frameworks have historically left unnamed, and translates lived kink wisdom into something clinicians and educators can actually use.
ABOUT THE CREATOR
Candace (she/they) is a nationally recognized social justice educator, trauma informed practitioner, kink advocate, and strategist working at the intersections of trauma, pleasure, and power.
Her work thrives from lived expertise & wisdom alongside the political and academic rigor to translate it for professionals.
Proud Mississippi native born in the crossroad of the Delta.
20+ years lived and applied expertise in BDSM/kink communities
TEDx speaker — "What BDSM Can Teach Us About Affirmative Consent"
Director-level leadership in trauma-informed movement spaces
Nationally recognized social justice educator and strategist
Author of the TICK Framework — 350+ pages of applied research and reflection