Types of Practitioners

By Finley Baker

Last Updated August 21, 2025

Image Description [Vignette style illustration with a purple, orange, and blue color palette. The frame of the vignette features abstract symbols and a Kente Cloth "transitions" symbol repeated in each corner, with the text "Finley Baker 2025" at the bottom. Within the vignette, three figures are participating in a private outpatient therapy room. A thin Filipino trans man lies down on a massage table, wearing a hoodie and shorts with a traditional Filipino tattoo on his leg and orange socks. His partner, a Black cis woman, touches his knee and shoulder and smiles at him. She is wearing an orange dress, orange sandals, and a Kente cloth head wrap. Their occupational therapist, a thin, older Native cis woman sits on a blue rolling stool with her legs crossed. She is wearing a purple V-neck shirt, blue pants, and purple clogs. She has beaded earrings and a name badge with a medicine wheel badge reel. In the background, his orange and purple four wheeled walker, and her blue Hurrycane are visible. The back wall is light orange, has a door and posters of water and a mountain. A positioning wedge and extra pillow are visible by the door.

Image Description [Infographic with a multi-colored table. The header reads "Sexual Health Practitioners" with the caption "who can help answer my sex-related questions?" There is a QR code with a link to this webpage and the caption "Scan for more." Each type of practitioner is on a new row. The text reads "sex educator: Anyone who is knowledgable and learned in sexual health topics and teaches others. Sex therapist: licensed mental health professionals who provide long-term talk therapy around sexual pleasure, trauma, gender, sexual orientation, poly, kink, etc. Sex counselor: Other practitioners (MD, OT, PT, clergy) with an in-depth knowledge of sexual health. Urologist: Medical doctor & prescriber, specialist in kidneys, bladder, prostate, penis, etc. (many AMAB people see urologists). OBGYN: Medical doctor & prescriber, specialist in fertility, contraception, the birth process, HRT, care of uterus/ovaries (many AFAB people see OBGYNs). Pelvic health physical therapist: Assist with pelvic floor dysfunction from a musculoskeletal perspective. Helps with sexual function, incontinence, bowels & bladder, pain & penetration, pregnancy, etc. Occupational Therapist: Sex is an activity of daily living. OTs can help with fatigue management, sexual positioning, adapted sex toys, changing the environment, working with partners, etc. Speech therapist: Helps people with communication disorders communicate about and during sex, gender-affirming voice therapy."]