Angel Sumka MA, RCC: Empowered-Hearts.com

Sex Positive Counsellor and Consultant, Empowered-Hearts.com

Social Skills and Self-Advocacy Group Lead for Neurodivergent Youth https://sites.google.com/aspecc.ca/empower/home

Sex Educator & Program Administrator, Advocating for Sex Positive Education and Consent Culture, aspecc.ca

Bio: Angel Sumka (they/she) is person centered counsellor,. They excell at supporting neurodivergent youth and adults, supporting persons with unresolved childhood trauma, and supporting connection in relationships. Angel is also a human rights activist, professional speaker and sex positive educator with a passion for fostering a culture of consent and respect. As a white, able-bodied, fat, neurodiverse, queer/femme, pan-romantic demi-sexual, non-monogamist alternative lifestyler, Angel brings a unique awareness of the intersection between privilege and marginalization to their counselling, workshops, presentations and activism.

Angel was one of the original founders of ASPECC, an Edmonton based nonprofit organization that promotes sex positive values as part of their mission to decrease gender and sexual based violence. Angel served as the president of this organization for four years, and continues to serve as their program administrator and sex educator.

Angel provides ongoing sex positive learning opportunities through ASPECC, ANSWER Society, ASPSH and Macewan University and several Gay Straight Alliance clubs (LGBTQIA2S++ youth) on a regular basis, and was honoured to develop content for the University of Alberta and ASPSH post- graduate certification in Sexual Health.

Angel is a highly sought after presenter, with engagements through Nait, Macewan University, ASPSH Bi-annual Western Sexual Health Conference, Edmonton Men’s Health Collective, Calgary QAS, as well as for dozens of local organizations and corporations for employee learning development including Alberta Wildifre Ministry. They also developed several dozen workshops to address gaps in sexual education in their community, including Sex Literacy for Adults, Seniors Sex Ed, Gender for Parents, Social Skills for Sex and Intimacy, Kink Aware Professionals, Sex Positive Professionals, Negotiating for Consensual Sex and/or Kink, and an entire series of workshops for youth on the autism spectrum/ attention deficit spectrum. Presentation evaluations note that Angel’s talks are engaging and filled with a mix of personal insight and knowledge regarding current research on related topics. Critiques are that Angel consistently incorporates social justice perspectives throughout workshops they offer, which at times can alienate persons with little to no experience with oppression.

The Always Required Documentation of Collected Expensive Paperwork:

Masters of Counselling Psychology (Yorkville University) May 2020-September 2023

Certification of First Responder to Sexual Assault (Alberta Association of Sexual Assault Services, 2019)

Sex Coach Certification (Loveology University, 2018)

Bachelors of Psychology (Thompson Rivers University) 2013-2018

Certificate of Social Sciences Certificate of Criminology Diploma Criminology Finning Achievement Award

Autism Social Skills Mentoring Training: Angel holds over 30 certificates of learning and achievement from various autism based learning opportunities.

Professional Memberships

As of 2023 Angel holds the following memberships:

RCC British Columba Certified Sex Educator (American College of Sexologists) Professional Membership (National Coalition of Sexual Freedom) Membership (Canadian Psychological Association

If you have questions or comments, feel free to email me at

angel@empowered-hearts.com

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