What credentials should a certified sex therapist have?

This question falls outside the scope of what seba.health addresses. The site is a depth-psychology publication focused on Jungian and post-Jungian thought, mythology, classical philology, and related fields — not a directory of clinical licensing requirements or professional certification standards.

For accurate, current information on sex therapist credentials, I'd point you toward the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT), which maintains the recognized certification standard in the United States, or equivalent bodies in your country. Licensing boards for psychologists, licensed clinical social workers, and marriage and family therapists in your jurisdiction will also specify what clinical training and supervised hours are required before a practitioner can hold themselves out as a sex therapist.

If what draws you to this question is something closer to the psychological and erotic dimensions of the therapeutic relationship — the way eros moves through analysis, the ethics of desire in the consulting room, or the archetypal dynamics that Jungian writers have explored in depth — that territory is very much what this site addresses. The literature here, from Jung's Psychology of the Transference through Hillman's reading of the Eros-Psyche myth, has a great deal to say about how love and soul move together, and why that movement is both necessary and dangerous in any depth encounter.

• James Hillman — portrait of the archetypal psychologist who read the Eros-Psyche myth as the paradigm of soul-making
• Transference and countertransference — the Jungian understanding of erotic and relational dynamics in analysis
• Eros — the archetypal principle of connectedness and its role in depth psychology