Sar Surmick, faculty in the Couple and Family Therapy (CFT) Program and the Sex Therapy Certificate Program at Antioch University’s Seattle campus, authored Chapter 3 in the forthcoming Routledge volume Decolonizing Family Systems, Relationships, and Practices: Intersectional Perspectives. The collection, written by practitioners, educators, and scholars, critiques the colonial roots of foundational family therapy models and offers alternatives that center agency, community, and healing. Edited by Jennifer Sampson, PhD, LMFT, CST-S (former Department Chair of the Seattle CFT Master’s Program), and Fiona E. O’Farrell, PhD, LMFT, CST-S (former Director of Relational Therapy’s Sex Therapy and Sex Education Certificate Programs).
Surmick’s clinical focus includes identity, non-monogamy, consent, and adult sexuality. Surmick works with individuals, couples, and groups; supervises MFT Associates; founded and serves as director emeritus of the Consent Academy; and develops and teaches consent education nationwide. A non-binary trans therapist, Surmick advances awareness of non-binary and genderqueer identities in therapy in conjunction with AAMFT.
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