About IPA

IPA is one of the world leaders in intimacy work for the screen. The education and training branch of IPA provides comprehensive intimacy coordinator training and certification courses annually, as well as workshops and online classes for people in other areas of the film and TV industry who are interested in learning more about intimacy work. To learn more about the organization and its other services, please visit www.IPAinternational.org. 

About Our Founder

Amanda Blumenthal, the founder of IPA, was one of the first intimacy coordinators in the world. It became clear to her early on while working as an intimacy coordinator that there was a demand in the industry for more professionals in the role of intimacy coordinator, and so IPA was born in order to provide comprehensive training for future IC's. 

Amanda is a sought-after speaker on the topic of intimacy coordination and has spoken at Women in Film, Film Independent, American Film Market, Women’s Production Society, Ghetto Film School, the USC Peter Stark Production Program, Netflix, FX, Freeform, Paramount, NBC-Universal, and CBS. In addition, she consulted with the Producer’s Guild of America (PGA) on developing materials for their Independent Production Safety Initiative (IPSI) program, and was a contributor to the Time’s Up Guide to Working in Entertainment.

Prior to her career as an intimacy coordinator, she worked as a sex and relationship coach with private clients. Amanda completed advanced training in the Somatica method and provided clients with a unique therapeutic experience that combined verbal processing with somatic experiencing. She is a trauma-aware and kink-friendly professional and uses this expertise to inform her work as an intimacy coordinator.

You can learn more about her at www.intimacycoordinator.com.