Anne Hodder-Shipp, CSE, (she/they pronouns) is an award-winning, multi-certified sex and relationships educator with professional training in breathwork and natural dreamwork. They boast a unique understanding of age-appropriate sex education, trauma-informed healing, critical thinking, and emotional intelligence, and they bring a fun, friendly, and sex-positive facilitation style to every session, group, or event she hosts. Utilizing a non-judgmental and no-b.s. approach, Anne happily helps clients of all ages, experience levels, and lifestyles heal, learn, and grow.

With an ability to convey complicated (and sometimes sensitive) information in an accessible way, Anne coaches, guides, and supports clients through profound healing and specializes in working with trauma and shame — especially the ways trauma and shame affect (and disrupt) our day-to-day lives.

A cum laude graduate of the Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College, Anne’s journalism and sociology background inspired a unique perspective of the public eye, which led them to work as a journalist, editor, and blogger covering the business of pleasure and the latest in human sexuality research. After readers reached out with vulnerable sex questions, Anne recognized a genuine passion for being of service, and she decided to train professionally as a sex educator. Anne received their first certification and endorsement in 2015 by the renowned San Francisco Sex Information program and continued her training at Planned Parenthood Los Angeles’s School Based Sex Education Program, where they honed a special skill for working with adolescents while teaching 9th graders throughout Los Angeles Unified School District.

Anne recently received an additional certification through the Kinsey Institute’s Human Sexuality Intensive and ANTE UP!’s justice-centered education program. They also hold professional training in breathwork facilitation, as well as natural dreamwork under the guidance of Kezia Vida. These two unique healing methods allow for deeper self-connection, emotional intelligence development, trauma resolution, and profound personal growth - and Anne often uses them in their one-on-one sessions.

Anne has been working with and writing about sex and relationships in some form since 2007. In addition to her private practice and public workshops, Anne is the founder of and lead educator at Everyone Deserves Sex Ed (EDSE) and leads treatment groups for clients recovering from substance use disorder, eating disorders, compulsive sexual behavior, and other stigmatized illnesses. Anne also provides pleasure education and events through S3X Plus Productions, and is the CEO of Hodder Media Inc., the first sex-positive PR and marketing firm to specialize in sex toys and pleasure products.

Most recently, Anne released Speaking from the Heart: 18 Languages for Modern Love, a groundbreaking and much-needed expansive update to the love language concept, and its accompanying workbook, The Speaking from the Heart Workbook: A Practical Guide to the Modern Love Languages. In 2022, the reproductive justice organization Power to Decide named Anne a “Power Player,” and the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT) honored Anne with the coveted Professional Standard of Excellence award.