Certified Professional Kink Pracitioner
Educators
How Our Educators Were Chosen
Every educator on this page stepped up and put themselves forward to be part of this program. Over the course of more than a year, each person was interviewed, submitted samples of their work, provided references, and underwent a background check. We took the vetting process seriously because the people this program serves deserve nothing less.
Building something this new requires iteration. We listened to feedback, made changes, and adjusted course as the program took shape. That process asked a lot of everyone involved, and we are grateful to each person who stayed in it through the shifts.
This team earned their place here. For those who began this journey with us and transitioned out along the way, we hold gratitude for what they contributed. For those who remained, we made it.
What you see on this page is the result of a rigorous, community-accountable process. These are practitioners, educators, and clinicians who were chosen because of what they bring, who they are, and the standard they are willing to be held to.
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Meet the Educators!
Module 1
Brandon Tucker
Tucker is a CPKP partner and enthusiastic leader known for his creativity and thoughtful integration of artistry into erotic practice. Tucker developed the innovative formats Human Sommelier and Kinky Tarot, both of which blend sensory awareness, intuition, and structured consent into experiential kink. Tucker's motto is "playfulness signals power". As a sadist, impact top, needle top, and headspace player, he brings both technical expertise and emotional attunement to his instruction.
Module 1 Guest Presenter
Princess Whimsy
Princess Whimsy has been in the BDSM and kink lifestyle since 2017. Throughout her journey, she's explored various aspects of kink and committed herself to learning why we do what we do. She is most passionate about 101 topics and helping those new to the lifestyle with safety and radical authenticity being her guiding principals when educating or mentoring. Whimsy has hosted kink retreats and facilitated support groups, lounges, and workshops for women in kink. She has a professional background as a women's empowerment life and fitness coach which informs her kink related education efforts.
Module 2
Shawn Vee
Shawn Vee’s (she/they) a clinician-educator with over thirty years’ experience transforming passion into practice, focusing on consent and BDSM. Blending lived experience and clinical training, Shawn teaches and treats from an intersectional, trauma-informed framework emphasizing explicit, enthusiastic consent. They create accessible, experiential curricula for diverse communities and professionals, demystifying sex work and kink while offering sex-positive therapy, prioritizing clear communication, negotiated boundaries, ethical power exchange, and inclusive sexual autonomy.
Module 3
Kelz Cousins
Kelz Cousins (they/them) is a therapist, educator, artist, and kink practitioner whose work centers the relational and embodied dynamics of power, pain, and pleasure. They bring both lived and professional experience as a 24/7 collared submissive and masochist, part of the leather community, with a focus on impact, sensory, and edge play.
With eight years in queer sexual health, Kelz focuses on expanding access for queer, polyamorous, and kinky communities while bringing a critical lens to how power, oppression, and identity shape both care systems and intimate dynamics. In that vain, they are explicit about their positionality as a white, formally educated person, while also living at multiple marginalized intersections as a gender expansive, queer, neurodivergent, and disabled person.
Their work centers consent as an ongoing practice, offering adaptable frameworks for engaging kink with intention, ethics, and embodiment.
Module 4
Bloody Love
Bloody Love is a BDSM community organizer and educator in Buffalo, NY with over fifteen years of experience supporting intentional, consent-centered kink spaces. Their work sits at the intersection of power exchange, community stewardship, and applied consent, with a focus on protocol, service-oriented dynamics, and the responsible use of authority. Their teaching emphasizes practicality, ongoing consent, and the use of protocol and ritual as stabilizing structures that provide somatic support, emotional regulation, and ethical grounding in lived D/s dynamics.
Module 5
Alice Missing
Alice Missing is a queer, neurodiverse sex educator and social worker with over a decade of experience supporting people in exploring identity, pleasure, and connection. Rooted in values of consent, curiosity, and community, Alice helps individuals and partners navigate sexuality, power, and relationships with confidence and care—celebrating all bodies, orientations, and expressions along the way.
Module 5 Guest Presenter
Lady M
Lady M (M for Monroe) (she/her) is a Lifestyle Domina, coach, storyteller, and practitioner of conscious power exchange with over 8 years of lived experience in authority transfer-based relationships. With a 20-year background in professional coaching and personal development, her work bridges embodiment, relational clarity, and deep energetic presence.
Known for her direct approach and strong grounding in lived practice, Lady M brings both tenderness and structure to the spaces she leads. Her coaching supports individuals and power exchange dynamics in becoming more fully expressed, integrated, and intentional.
She identifies as a sacred disruptor—someone who lovingly challenges systems, roles, and habits that no longer serve. Her work invites others to engage the uncomfortable with honesty, and to meet transformation with discipline, devotion, and self-responsibility.
Lady M is a founding member of the Kink Professional Standards Alliance (KPSA) and serves as an instructor and mentor in the 2026 CPKP cohort.
Module 6
Daddy Doyenne
Daddy Doyenne(they/them) is a professional and lifestyle Dominant, and kinkster of 20 years. When Daddy D. is not training promising and obedient submissives, they are lighting up burlesque stages as Thee Demonatrix, being a mom, a kink and BDSM educator, and is the face of their own business and brand, The Kinky Kafe LLC.
Daddy Doyenne is known for pioneering the concept of “Themdom” or non-binary and gender expansive Domination, as well as their desire to change the ethos of the kink community through education, community building, and inclusivity.
Daddy Doyenne is an educator and motivator, craftfully combining old guard and new guard BDSM protocol to create a whole new way to BDSM.
Module 7
Doc Yu Roc
Dr. Yulinda Renee Rahman, Ph.D., LCPC, is a pioneering voice in the intersection of kink, mental health, and somatic healing. As the founder of the Kink Professional Standards Alliance (KPSA), she is setting the bar for ethical and professional standards for kink practitioners, educators, and clinicians worldwide. Under the KPSA umbrella, she has developed multiple groundbreaking initiatives, including the Therapeutic BDSM Collaborative Network™ (TBCN), the Certified Professional Kink Practitioner (CPKP) Program, the Journal of Kink and Community, and the Applied Therapeutic BDSM™ training.
Her latest book, The Edge of Excellence: Therapeutic BDSM & Beyond, brings together her research, training models, and the collective wisdom of the field to redefine what professional kink-based care can look like.
Module 8
Cameryn
Cameryn Lamare (she/fae) is the founder of Mischief & Meaning and a facilitator blending Authentic Relating, InterPlay, and embodied kink education. Their work explores the alchemy of consent, communication, and play as gateways to deeper connection and repair. With a background in relational facilitation and experiential arts, Cameryn helps people meet desire, truth, and power with presence, humor, and heart.
Cameryn Lamare (she/fae) integrates Authentic Relating, InterPlay, and kink to teach consent, communication, and embodied play that transforms connection into conscious, healing power.
Module 9
Jerome Triplin II
Jerome Triplin II is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and seasoned sex educator who has spent over two decades guiding individuals and couples toward deeper connection, healing, and liberation. With 20 years as a sex educator and 5 years in clinical practice, Jerome bridges the wisdom of therapeutic insight with embodied, experiential approaches to intimacy and relational repair.
Rooted in lived experience as a member of both the kink and polyamorous communities, Jerome brings not only professional expertise but also a deep personal understanding of the complexities, joys, and challenges of alternative relationship structures and erotic expression. His work sits at the intersection of healing, pleasure, and justice—helping people move through relational stuck points, reclaim authentic desire, and practice consent and communication as pathways to freedom.
Drawing from both clinical training and community-based education, Jerome creates spaces where vulnerability becomes strength and erotic expression becomes medicine. As a speaker and facilitator, he brings warmth, depth, and a trauma-informed lens that empowers participants to explore with safety and courage. At the Edge of Excellence Summit, Jerome contributes a vision where kink, care, and ethics are not only compatible, but essential to collective healing and embodied liberation.
CPKP Program Director
Mistress Mia
Mistress Mia Payne is a transformational coach, educator, and speaker working at the intersection of healing, power, and personal evolution. She is the creator of The ARC Protocol (Attune. Release. Commit.), a structured methodology designed to guide individuals from nervous system regulation, through deep emotional release, and into disciplined, aligned action.
As the owner and Mistress of Payne With Purpose, a self-development and sekf-empowerment dungeon, she facilitates intentional, consent-based experiences that blend elements of BDSM, somatic awareness, and trauma-informed practice. Her work challenges conventional narratives by reframing kink as a powerful tool for healing, self-discovery, and embodied empowerment.
In her role as Program Director for The Certified Professional Kink Practitioner program, she is dedicated to raising the standard of education, ethics, and safety within the field. She has a passion for bringing incredible teachers and mentors together to create learning opportunities for practitioners to approach kink-informed work with integrity, responsibility, and a deep understanding of consent, ethics, and impact.
With over two decades of experience in coaching and personal development, her work is rooted in helping individuals release stored trauma, dismantle limiting patterns, and reclaim their agency. Her focus extends both within and beyond the kink community, offering education on the therapeutic and transformative potential of intentional power exchange.
Her approach is direct, grounded, and unapologetically honest—inviting clients and students alike to step into deeper self-awareness, embodied power, and meaningful, lasting change.
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