Svenja Vergauwen

Policy officer “sexual wellbeing”, Sensoa

Svenja Vergauwen is a sexologist and has been working as policy officer ‘sexual wellbeing’ at Sensoa since 2021, before that she was a project supervisor there. Svenja worked for seven years as an educator on relationships and sexuality at Pimento vzw. She has experience with relational and sexual education to children, young people and their supervisors. As sexual wellbeing policy officer, she regularly trains healthcare professionals on discussing sexual health with patients and clients and responding to sexually transgressive behaviour. She is content provider of the website allesoverseks.be and monitors scientific research on sexual wellbeing. Svenja is also a board member of the Flemish Society for Sexology (VVS).