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Digital Seminar

Sexual Grooming

What Every Clinician Working with Minors Needs to Know

Speaker:
Kathryn Stamoulis, PhD
Duration:
2 Hours
Language:
Presented in EN
Copyright:
Dec 02, 2025
Product Code:
POS150496
Media Type:
Digital Seminar - Also available: Live Webinar


Description

 If you work with kids or teens, you need to understand grooming …

  • What grooming really looks like – beyond the stereotypes
  • The stages of grooming and how they show up in real-life cases
  • How grooming affects a child’s ability to disclose or understand abuse
  • Red flags to listen for in session

If you work with children, you need to understand grooming.

Not just the obvious red flags – but the subtle signs that most people miss. The boundary testing. The excessive attention. The gifts, the secrets, the slow erosion of trust and safety.

Because grooming isn’t loud, dramatic, or easy to spot. It’s quiet. Strategic. And often disguised as care, mentorship, or even love.

That’s what makes it so dangerous.

And if you’re a therapist, school counselor, or child-serving professional, you are often the only one who might catch it – or the first safe person a child might confide in.

In this essential training, you’ll join expert Dr. Kathryn Stamoulis who’s been featured in the Netflix docuseries Filthy Rich: Jeffrey Epstein as well as The New York Times, BBC, NPR and more.

In just 2 hours, Dr. Stamoulis will show you:

  • What grooming really looks like – beyond the stereotypes
  • The stages of grooming and how they show up in real-life cases
  • How grooming affects a child’s ability to disclose or understand abuse
  • Red flags to listen for in session

Whether you work in a school, clinic, or private practice, this training will give you the knowledge and tools you need to recognize grooming, respond appropriately, and help children recover safely.

Because when we know what to look for, we have the power to protect.

Purchase now.

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Program Information

Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.




Speaker

Kathryn Stamoulis, PhD's Profile

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Dr. Kathryn Stamoulis, is a licensed mental health counselor based in New York, specializing in adolescent sexual development. She served as an expert witness in cases involving sexual abuse and grooming of minors. Committed to public education, her work has appeared in numerous publications and media outlets, including The New York Times, NPR, MSNBC, Today, and the Netflix docuseries Filthy Rich: Jeffrey Epstein. She is the author of the chapter “Vulnerability of Children to Grooming Strategies” in the book Skills for Safeguarding: A Guide to Preventing Abuse and Fostering Healing in the Church.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Kathryn Stamoulis receives compensation as a consultant. She receives royalties as a published author. Kathryn Stamoulis receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Kathryn Stamoulis is a member of the American Psychological Association. She is a reviewer and serves on the editorial board with the Journal of Psychology of Popular Medical Culture.

 


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Objectives

  1. Examine the five distinct stages in the sexual grooming process used by perpetrators to gain access to and control over victims and their support systems.
  2. Identify risk factors that increase a child’s vulnerability.
  3. Define the unique psychological implications of sexual grooming.

Outline

Understand Sexual Grooming: Definitions, Groomers and Victims

  • Definition
  • Grooming as a methodical process
  • Groomers/Predators
  • Victims

What The Grooming Process Looks Like

  • Victim selection and risk factors
  • Gain access & isolate trust development
  • Secret-keeping
  • Desensitization to sexual content & physical touch
  • Exposure to sexual jokes, pornography, intimate images
  • Post-abuse maintenance
  • Silence the victim
  • Manipulation through guilt, threats, promises of love

What Grooming Looks Like in Clients and How to Respond

  • Victims may not recognize the abuse
  • Misperceive the relationship as romantic
  • Impacts on developmental and future relationships
  • Long-term effects: shame, guilt, self-blame
  • What to do when you recognize grooming

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Psychotherapists
  • Therapists
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • School-based professionals
  • Case Managers
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

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