The Pineapple Support 2025 Mental Health Summit
Sexual Education for The Sexually Educated – The Body-Mind Connection
Join us for the 2025 Mental Health Summit, a three-day virtual event designed to look deeper into the powerful connection between sex, the body, and the mind. Over four immersive days, we’ll explore how pleasure, desire, intimacy, and sexual expression shape our emotional and physical wellbeing.
Through thought-provoking presentations and lively panels, leading experts and community voices will guide us in understanding how sex impacts our nervous system, stress responses, mental health, and sense of identity. We’ll also explore how to nurture resilience, self-acceptance, and joy in the face of both personal and professional challenges.
Designed for those who live, work, and create in sex-positive spaces, the summit is a celebration of knowledge and community. Together, we’ll break down myths, share tools, and expand our understanding of how honoring both body and mind leads to healthier, more fulfilling lives.
Hosted by Laura Desiree
Presented by Laura Desiree
Laura Desiree, based in New York City, is an Adult Industry Expert, Certified Intimacy Coordinator, Pleasure Educator, and Activist. With over a decade of experience, she has been a prominent figure in producing and presenting content tailored for adult viewership. Her work ranges from live-event immersive experiences to television and web broadcasting, blending investigative journalism with entertainment.
Within the realm of adult content creation, Laura has spearheaded initiatives aimed at enhancing earning opportunities and improving working conditions. She has also provided consultancy services to individuals and corporations, advocating for a redefined narrative of success in Sex Work.
Laura’s impressive portfolio includes a 7-year tenure as a producer and presenter for NakedNews, hosting and producing Red Umbrella Talk, serving as lead brand strategist for the sex work marketing agency PS: Group, hosting series podcasts for Cam4 and ManyVids productions, and serving as a regular project consultant for the Museum of Sex in both New York and Miami.
The Psychology Of Pleasure
Monday 15th – 10am PST/1pm EST/7pm CET
The Psychology of Pleasure is a three-part educational and experiential workshop series that explores how pleasure is processed, expressed, and shared through the mind, body, and communication. Each exercise builds upon the last to deepen understanding of how pleasure influences mental health, self-awareness, and relationships while navigating life as a sex worker.
Selina Elam, MFT PhDc , also known as Fairy, works as a Marriage and Family / Sex Therapist under the direction of Blue Pearl Therapy. She can also be found here at Pineapple Support and Open Path.
Fairy has a passion for sexual health and education creating safe spaces for people to wave their freak flag under the grounds and morality that is centered with education.
For close to a decade she has spread her education across the US at events like Exxxotica, Sex Down South, Jax Fet Festival, and more. She is the owner of Mindful Magic – creating erotic, tangible items to encourage people to express their desires and fantasies in a fun and comprehensive way. With each session, podcast, or live event Fairy always wants to send the message that “Knowledge Cums Before Performance.”
More Than a Fantasy: The Emotional Labor of Being Desired & Fetishized
Monday 15th – 11am PST/2pm EST/8pm CET
This candid panel brings together Gushy IRL (Toronto), Mr. Leather 2025 Sir Dion (Seattle), and King Noire for a grounded and layered conversation on the emotional labor of being fetishized, hyper-visible, or professionally sexualized. We’ll explore identity, boundaries, burnout, and how each panelist reclaims power and pleasure in the face of projected desire.
N. Jasmine Johnson, MSW, LCSW , Jet Setting Jasmine, is a licensed psychotherapist, sex educator, filmmaker, and author whose work bridges clinical insight with cultural liberation.
A co-owner of Royal Fetish Films and founder of Blue Pearl Therapy, Jasmine’s writing appears in Fundamental Concepts and Critical Developments in Sex Education: Intersectional and Trauma-Informed Approaches (Routledge, 2024), where her chapter, Integrating Porn Literacy into Sex Education, challenges educators to dismantle stigma and center pleasure, consent, and critical media literacy.
Her research and commentary have been featured in outlets such as Playboy, VICE, and Refinery29, amplifying conversations on race, kink, and decolonized sexuality.
A view of Neurodivergent Sexuality
Tuesday 16th – 10am PST/1pm EST/7pm CET
Together we will explore how masking, sensory processing, difficulties, and integration, as well as social cues can impact sexual identity and sexual expression as neurodiverse individuals.
Rainier McCall is a licensed mental health counselor, qualified supervisor, and EMDR consultant who specializes in working with the following: those with complex PTSD, religious trauma, disordered eating, Autistic folks, Borderline Personality Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder, those in the adult industry, LGBTQIA2+ folks, couples, and many more.
Rainier is a recommended therapist and sought out for their distinct compassion and attentiveness to trauma and attachment. Rainier is an autistic, warm human and has lived experience in the world of C-PTSD and many specialties provided.
The Autistic Guide to Sexuality
Tuesday 16th – 11am PST/2pm EST/8pm CET
Dissociation, sensory needs, boundaries, and overall expression differences can impact sex and sexuality in positive, neutral, and negative ways. Join a discussion exploring these topics in depth alongside tools to feel empowered.
Rainier McCall is a licensed mental health counselor, qualified supervisor, and EMDR consultant who specializes in working with the following: those with complex PTSD, religious trauma, disordered eating, Autistic folks, Borderline Personality Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder, those in the adult industry, LGBTQIA2+ folks, couples, and many more.
Rainier is a recommended therapist and sought out for their distinct compassion and attentiveness to trauma and attachment. Rainier is an autistic, warm human and has lived experience in the world of C-PTSD and many specialties provided.
Healing through Sexuality: Rebuilding Safety, Consent, and Confidence.
Wednesday 17th – 10am PST/1pm EST/7pm CET
This 60-minute webinar explores how survivors of trauma can reconnect with sexuality as a pathway to healing, empowerment, and embodied self-expression. Through a trauma-informed and sex-positive lens, participants will learn how to rebuild safety in intimacy, reestablish trust and consent, and rediscover pleasure as an act of reclamation.
The session will also address reframing sexual shame and internalized stigma, helping individuals and professionals alike understand how trauma impacts desire, body image, and self-worth. Attendees will leave with practical tools and therapeutic frameworks for guiding towards authentic, confident, and compassionate sexual healing.
Wendi “Nicki” Line is a licensed mental health counselor with extensive training in clinical sexology and addiction combined with experience counseling in the inpatient and private practice settings. She is Kink Aware, Poly Friendly, and works with the LGBTQ+ communities. Wendi is the Vice President of the Sanctuary Center and an instructor at the International Academy of Collaborative Counseling and Coaching Education (IACCCE), in Tampa, Florida.
Pleasure, Power, and Healing: Insights from the Adult Industry
Wednesday 17th – 11am PST/2pm EST/8pm CET
This panel examines how working in the adult industry can become a pathway for personal growth, empowerment, and healing. Drawing from lived and professional experience, speakers will explore the connections between embodiment, consent, power dynamics, and emotional regulation through practices such as BDSM and other forms of intentional sexual expression.
Discussion will highlight how principles of trust, boundary setting, and authentic communication in adult work parallel therapeutic processes that support trauma recovery, body reconnection, and self-acceptance. Participants will leave with a deeper understanding of how pleasure, agency, and mindful physicality can contribute to holistic healing and wellbeing.
Dr. Kilwein (name/she/they/Dr.) is a board-certified clinical psychologist licensed to practice in California, Colorado, Tennessee, Wyoming, and all PSYPACT ® states. They specialize in treating trauma/PTSD, chemical and behavioral addictions, sexual concerns, masculinity, mental performance, and transgender/gender expansive concerns. Dr. Kilwein incorporates feminist, multicultural, and liberation therapy techniques throughout their work with clients of all identities. They consider themself an LGBTQIA2S+ and polyamory/consensual non-monogamy co-conspirator, offering inclusive systemic sex therapy to those of all gender/sexuality/relationship identities and behavioral health evaluations, letters, and referrals for those seeking gender affirming medical care access.
More information about Dr. Kilwein’s practice can be found here.
PineappleSummit is a 100% Free and a 100% Online Summit. You don’t need to travel anywhere, you can watch this summit on your phone, your laptop, iPad, computer where ever you are in the world as long as you are connected to internet. The best part, you don’t even need to get dressed!
