With 15 years of experience alongside queer and trans folk, Cavanaugh Quick's work focuses on cultivating leadership and autonomy in youth in adults.
Cavanaugh is a licensed clinical social worker, with specialties in the areas of trauma, sexual assault and intimate partner violence, gender, sex, sexuality, and sex therapy. In community, Cavanaugh teaches comprehensive sexual health and relationship education. They offer consultation, technical assistance, and training for service providers who work with queer and trans people in the areas of medical and mental health services, youth and recreation services, and higher education. Cavanaugh is a New York State certified sexual assault crisis counselor and a member of the Sexual Liberation Collective — an intentional collaboration of people who are passionate about liberation and healing for all people.
Cavanaugh’s clinical and community work is trauma-informed, kink-affirming, and poly-positive. They believe in honesty, self-education, and radical kindness.