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AI, Sex Bots and Digital Intimacy

$249.99 Standard
  • Practical assessment tools spot unhealthy tech driven behaviors fast
  • IFS-informed interventions that lower defensiveness, and reduce shame
  • EFT techniques to repair ruptures when digital habits fracture connection
  • Real world case examples showing how to use these skills in the therapy room

 

More than ever, clients are seeking AI companions, digital intimacy platforms, and online relational spaces to meet their needs.

And you’re already seeing this show in and out of therapy: clients who feel lonelier than ever, avoid real-world connection and struggle to tolerate the normal messiness that comes with human intimacy.

That’s why we created this training that bridges that gap.

Join Soleil Merroir, Certified Sex Therapist and clinical supervisor with over 15 years of experience training mental health professionals – an established expert at the intersection of technology, intimacy, and relational systems.

You’ll gain the skills you need to confidently navigate the emerging clinical challenges related to digital and AI-based relational dynamics – so you can support clients building healthier digital habits, repair areas of distress, and reconnect with real-world intimacy.

Join and walk away with:

  • Assessment tools to spot unhealthy patterns on technology and set healthy boundaries
  • IFS-informed interventions designed to lower defensiveness and shame
  • EFT strategies for rupture and repair in couples when digital habits disrupt the bond
  • Real-world case examples that show exactly how to use these skills in session

AI and digital relationships aren’t the future of relating – they’re happening right now. Get skills that will keep your work on the cutting edge of relationship systems, to be effective in 2026.


This event is not endorsed by, sponsored by, or affiliated with the IFS Institute and does not qualify for IFS Institute credits or certification.
 

Here's What You'll Learn


Current Clinical Relational Landscape in The Digital Intimacy Space

  • Understanding driving behaviors behind sexting, chat rooms and online erotic art
  • Loneliness, isolation and loss of community fueling emotional dependence on AI
  • Understanding digital expression and its function in sexuality
  • Patriarchy and its role in men’s emotional isolation and women’s emotional labor
  • Clinical assessment of sexual and relational health across genders identity

The Role of AI and Its Impact on Human Relationships

  • Understanding how AI creates the illusion of attune and connection
  • AI and its role in impairing relational skills of rupture and repair
  • AI and control as a strategy to avoid vulnerability rejection and in real relationships
  • Case examples

Psychoeducational Scripts and Worksheet for Unhealthy Behaviors

  • Clinical interventions for separation support tools from relational substitutes
  • Psychoeducational script on how AI mimics connection and the risks of using it as such
  • Practice ready skills through a sex positive, harm reduction, shame free lens
  • Worksheets, psychoeducation for mapping relationship systems and power dynamics

Clinical Skills for Complex Digital Intimacy Behaviors

  • Clinical tools to assess digital habits and teach healthy vs. unhealthy online behavior
  • IFS-informed interventions for self-awareness and exploration of sexuality and digital behaviors
  • Clinical interventions for managing resistance and defensiveness when shame is triggered

Clinical Assessment, Boundaries & Repair in Couples

  • Top 3 relationship issues tied to porn use, AI intimacy, sexting, and online infidelity
  • Shame-free tools for creating share agreements and addressing the use in couples
  • DBT informed interventions for boundary setting with technology
  • EFT-informed interventions to explore attachment needs
  • Case examples

The Therapist’s Role in Healing and Rebuilding Community

  • Utilizing community as a tool against isolation and overreliance to romantic love
  • Solution-focused strategies to help clients build emotional vulnerability with real people
  • Ethical considerations and limitations on research
  • Integration of learning into real-world practice

Everything You're Getting


  • More than 6 hours of video content
  • Up to 6.25 CE credits
  • Certificate of completion
  • Handouts and resources

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AI, Sex Bots and Digital Intimacy
Digital Seminar
$249.99

Meet Your Experts


Angela Gunn, LCSW, CST

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Angela Gunn, LCSW, CST (known as Soleil Merroir), is a licensed clinical social worker, AASECT certified sex therapist and supervisor, and a sex worker with more than 20 years in both industries. Within the therapeutic world, Soleil traversed child welfare, institutional, private practice, group and telehealth settings, bringing deep empathy and a systems change mindset to the work. They served as the sexuality expert for Talkspace.com and sat on the board of SPEEC, a sexuality non-profit formerly in Portland, OR. Teaching and facilitation accompanied much of their clinical work, including offerings related to trauma, alternative sexualities and communities, polyamory, BDSM and trauma, the intersections of sexuality and mental health, and pleasure centered care. They co-founded the Equitable Care Certification (ECC), a non-profit focused on training mental health professionals in sex work affirming and anti-oppressive therapeutic care.

Soliel’s more recent work has focused on the intersection of sextech, sex work, human relationships and community stewardship. Their work integrates trauma-informed, sex-work-affirming, and cyberfeminist perspectives to support ethical, human-centered practice and community development in digital and immersive environments.


Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Angela Gunn has employment relationships with CyborgDreamDigital and Zepp Wellness Center. She is a workshop facilitator for Kink.com, SheBop the Shop, SeaGrape, Self Serve Toys, Curious Fox, NYC, and Council for Relationships. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. All relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations have been mitigated.
Non-financial: Angela Gunn has no relevant non-financial relationships.

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Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Product Code:
POS150860
Duration:
6 hours, 12 minutes
Copyright:
Sep 15, 2026
Closed Captions:
Available
Format:
Audio and Video

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