Developing and facilitating sexuality, relationship and embodiment work.
Professional Mentoring
Refine the work you offer. Strengthen the practice that carries it
Private mentoring for practitioners who want experienced, direct guidance with sessions, sexuality, relationships, ethics, facilitation, programme design or the business of sustaining their work.
To be of service is a higher purpose
When knowledge meets real practice
Training gives foundations. Practice keeps asking new questions
Professional mentoring creates a place to examine those questions before habit, isolation or commercial pressure makes the decision for you.
A technique may be familiar while the person in front of you is not. A boundary can be written clearly and still become complex in practice. A valuable service may be difficult to explain, price or sustain. Andrew brings nearly three decades of facilitation, formal sexual-health study, original modality development and international practice into a relationship centred on what you actually need to understand, decide or develop.
Working with different cultures, organisers, groups and professional contexts.
In Sexual Health, joined with decades of embodied and professional learning.
What you can bring
Bring the work as it really is
Mentoring can centre on one immediate question or follow the connections between technique, professional judgement, sexuality, relationships, facilitation and business.
Session craft and technique
Review the structure, pacing and direction of sessions. Refine methods you are already trained and permitted to use, consider alternatives and recognise when a technique should not be used.
Sexuality and relationships
Develop clearer ways to understand and discuss desire, arousal, pleasure, orgasm, sexual concerns, relationship patterns and differences between partners.
Consent, boundaries and professional power
Think carefully about informed consent, touch, disclosure, role clarity, dual relationships, changing boundaries, endings, referrals and the power carried by the practitioner role.
Difficult moments in practice
Bring uncertainty, ruptures, strong client responses and the reactions that arise in you. Mentoring creates room to examine what happened and decide what responsible action now requires.
Offers, programmes and business
Shape services, pricing, packages, programme architecture, website language, organiser relationships and business boundaries so the practice is both ethical and economically sustainable.
Facilitation and professional development
Review workshops, retreats and educational programmes, including purpose, sequence, eligibility, group agreements, cultural context, integration and the next direction of your professional learning.
Professional Mentoring pathways
Begin with the depth the question requires
A single consultation may be enough. When development needs time, two defined structures create continuity without forcing every practitioner into the same curriculum.
One defined area4 months
Focused Professional Mentoring
For a practitioner who wants sustained attention on one part of the work, from refining sessions or navigating a recurring professional question to shaping an offer or programme.
Discuss focused mentoring →Four monthly 90-minute sessions
A defined rhythm for one principal area of practice, with enough continuity to try, observe and refine what is discussed.
One professional direction
The series may centre on session craft, a sexuality or relationship theme, ethical decision-making, facilitation, an offer or a business question.
Focused preparation
A concise question or de-identified situation can be submitted before each session so the live time begins close to the heart of the matter.
Review and next actions
The final session gathers what has been learned and identifies the decisions, practice and further training that should follow.
Whole-practice development6 months
Six-Month Professional Mentoring
For work that crosses several professional dimensions and benefits from an experienced relationship able to follow what changes over time.
Discuss six-month mentoring →Six monthly 90-minute sessions
A sustained professional relationship that can follow the connections between client work, knowledge, ethics, facilitation and business.
A professional mentoring map
Created at the beginning and revisited as the work develops, with clear priorities and room for real practice to change the direction.
Tailored learning and resources
Relevant questions, references, practices and educational material are selected according to your work, training and professional scope.
One brief written check-in each month
A bounded point of contact between sessions for concise clarification, reflection or adjustment, rather than continuous access.
A continuing-development plan
The final review identifies what has changed, where your limits remain and what supervision, training, consultation or experience should come next.
Bespoke Practice Development
When the work is larger than a session series
A six-, nine- or twelve-month proposal may be created for a practitioner, facilitator, training team or organisation. It can combine individual mentoring with programme development, offer and website review, business strategy, retreat or workshop design, and carefully scoped review of professional material.
The proposal states the purpose, sessions, preparation, document review, contact between meetings, investment and the limits of Andrew's role. Work that requires formal training, approved supervision, legal advice or another specialist is identified rather than folded into the mentoring fee.
Explore a bespoke proposal →Small-group Professional Mentoring
Shared questions can create a richer professional field
An established group of two or more colleagues can request a four- or six-month online mentoring circle. Sessions may combine a short teaching, de-identified practice reflection, questions and professional discussion around a shared area of interest.
- A defined group purpose and eligibility
- Clear confidentiality and participation agreements
- Regular two-hour online meetings
- A lower individual cost than private mentoring
- A separate written proposal for the whole group
The mentoring relationship
Experienced guidance. Clear professional responsibility
Sexuality and touch-related work carries particular questions of privacy, power, consent and scope. These are part of the mentoring structure, not an afterthought.
Collaborative, not directive
Andrew brings questions, knowledge, experience and direct feedback. You retain professional autonomy and responsibility for every decision in your own practice.
Specific, not performative
The work stays close to actual sessions, decisions, language, offers and professional responsibilities. The purpose is useful development, not the appearance of expertise.
Depth with clear limits
Mentoring can include honest self-reflection, but it is not personal therapy, clinical supervision, emergency consultation, legal advice or business management.
How it begins
Begin with the question that matters most
Your first consultation can focus on one immediate question, open into a focused series, or become a longer mentoring relationship shaped around the work you want to develop.
Begin with a professional consultation
Bring one live professional question, or use the conversation to map the wider support you are seeking and whether Andrew is the right mentor for it.
Choose your professional consultation →Clarify role, purpose and scope
Your training, work, professional responsibilities and desired direction are considered before a mentoring relationship is proposed.
Choose the appropriate structure
You may leave with a clear next action, continue with four focused sessions, enter six-month mentoring or receive a bespoke individual or group proposal.
Review development honestly
The mentoring map is revisited. Progress, limitations, unresolved questions and the need for other training or supervision remain visible throughout.
Before you begin
Important distinctions, made visible
How is Professional Mentoring different from Practitioner Training?
Practitioner Training teaches a defined curriculum and develops competence in a particular modality. Professional Mentoring begins with the work you already do and the questions arising within it. Mentoring may help you integrate prior training, but it does not replace formal training or authorise you to offer a new modality.
Is this clinical supervision?
No. Professional Mentoring is a collaborative developmental relationship, not clinical supervision, regulatory oversight or supervision towards an external licence or certification. If your profession requires an approved supervisor, you remain responsible for arranging that supervision separately.
Do I need to have trained with Andrew?
No. Mentoring may suit sexuality and relationship coaches, counsellors, therapists, educators, Tantra practitioners, somatic and touch-based practitioners, retreat facilitators and allied health professionals. The work remains within your existing education, role and legal scope.
Can I discuss client or participant work?
Yes, when the material is relevant and appropriately de-identified. Names and unnecessary identifying details should not be shared. Records, images or session recordings require explicit lawful consent and prior agreement with Andrew, and he may decide they are not appropriate to review.
Can mentoring include business development?
Yes. It may include positioning, service design, pricing, packages, programme structure, website language, organiser relationships and sustainable working boundaries. Andrew offers experienced perspective and practical review, while financial, tax and legal decisions remain with appropriately qualified advisers.
Can colleagues work with Andrew together?
Yes. An established group of two or more practitioners may request a four- or six-month mentoring circle. The group purpose, confidentiality agreement, session rhythm, investment and boundaries are confirmed in a written proposal.
Will I receive a certificate?
A defined mentoring programme may include a certificate of completion. It records participation only and is not a professional qualification, licence, certification or permission to practise unless a separate written training agreement explicitly states otherwise.
What support is available between sessions?
The six-month structure includes one brief written check-in each month. Any additional review, messaging, document feedback or urgent consultation must be agreed separately. Mentoring does not provide emergency professional support.
Begin with a professional consultation
Bring one question, or map the wider work
Choose 90 minutes for a focused professional question. Choose two hours when you want to review a more complex situation, consider several areas of practice or design a longer mentoring relationship.
Looking for support with your own life, sexuality or relationship rather than your professional work? Explore Personal Mentoring.