We train clinicians to be experts in connection
We provide AASECT training and CE credits, supervision for therapists and clinicians, and offer a trusted network of trained providers.
The Northwest Institute on Intimacy equips therapists, educators, and healthcare professionals with high-quality training in sex therapy and relational care. Whether you are pursuing AASECT certification, earning CE credits, or seeking a vetted provider, we offer education grounded in integrity, clarity, and real-world practice.
Explore Your Options with NWIOI
A Higher Standard of Sexuality Training
Become the kind of clinician clients trust with their most vulnerable stories.
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Smaller cohorts. Relatable supervision. Meaningful mentorship.
You are not one of hundreds moving anonymously through a program. You are known by name, supported in your growth, and thoughtfully challenged in your clinical development. Our smaller learning environments create space for questions, nuance, and genuine professional formation.
Grounded. Ethical. Forward-thinking.
We prepare you to work with today's evolving relational landscapes while remaining clinically sound and ethically anchored. Our training incorporates systemic perspectives that help clinicians understand how individual experiences, relational dynamics, and broader contexts shape intimacy. The result is training that is progressive, professional, and sustainable for long-term practice.
Depth over volume.
Quality over shortcuts.
Our courses are designed to build true clinical competence, not just fulfill hour requirements. Through systemic training in intimacy and relational care, we emphasize integration, discernment, and applied skill rather than surface-level coverage. You leave with clarity and confidence, not just a certificate.
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A More Personal Standard of Training
We offer rigorous, relational training led by experienced clinicians who actively practice what they teach. Our faculty are not removed from the field. They are in the therapy room, navigating the same complex relational realities you are. That real-world engagement shapes every course, discussion, and supervision hour.
Our Promise to Our Students
Your training should do more than fulfill requirements. At NWIOI, we design our programs to be both efficient and transformational, ensuring that every course contributes to your development as a thoughtful, capable clinician. The goal is not just certification, but lasting professional growth.
The Work of Intimacy Shapes More Than One Relationship
When relationships heal, families stabilize. When intimacy strengthens, communities heal.
Sex therapy and counseling is not niche work. It is systemic work. The health of a couple reverberates outward into parenting, family dynamics, identity development, and the wider communities people live within. Through systemic training in intimacy and relational care, clinicians learn to recognize how individual experiences, relational patterns, and internal systems shape the health of a relationship.
At NWIOI, we prepare clinicians to work thoughtfully within these complex systems with rigor, nuance, and ethical clarity.
Understanding AASECT Certification Requirements
Explore Our Free Guide to Track Your Certification Progress
AASECT certification requires a combination of coursework, supervision hours, clinical experience, and professional development. For many clinicians, the process can feel overwhelming to navigate on their own.
To make the process easier, we created a free AASECT Certification Requirements Tracker to help you organize your coursework, supervision hours, and progress toward certification. This tool allows you to see where you are in the process and what steps remain so you can move forward with confidence.
Hear What Clinicians are Saying about NWIOI
"The process of becoming AASECT certified is made straight-forward and accessible, and if certification isn't the end goal then therapists still learn a great deal about sexuality & intimacy that they can begin immediately to bring it effectively into their work with clients. Though you would never guess this from the caliber of the experience you receive, the cost of certification through NWIOI is vastly less than costly similar programs"
- Justin Pere, MA, LMFT, CGT, CIIP
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