Dr. Marty Klein, has been a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist and a Certified Sex Therapist in Palo Alto, California for 42 years—over 40,000 sessions with individuals and couples. Marty is the award-winning author of seven books on sexuality and relationships, including the ground-breaking Sexual Intelligence. Psychology Today simply says “To improve your sex life, buy this book.” Marty frequently appears in the popular media, such as The New York Times, National Public Radio, and The Daily Show. His blog (www.SexEd.org) and monthly newsletter are frequently cited as sources of innovative thinking about sexuality, culture, politics, and the media. Marty is a Qualified Forensic Expert testifying in state and federal courts. He recently gave two Congressional briefings on evidence-based sex education. Each year, Marty trains thousands of psychologists, physicians, and policymakers in sexuality—across the U.S. and in 35 countries to date. Audiences invariably describe his talks as thought-provoking, practical, and entertaining.
Stacey Seibel, PHD, LP is a licensed clinical psychologist who has been working at Park Nicollet’s Sexual Medicine Clinic in St. Louis Park, Minnesota since 2006. She works as part of a multi-disciplinary team of medical and mental health providers where her practice focuses on the evaluation and treatment of trauma and dissociation, sexual compulsivity, sexual dysfunction and LGBT issues.
Dr. Seibel completed a two year APPIC-accredited postdoctoral fellowship through the University of Minnesota Medical School: Program in Human Sexuality/Center for Sexual Health. She earned her PhD from Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida (2005) and her BA from the University of Maryland, College Park (1999). Dr. Seibel has presented at local and national conferences; has taught courses in trauma, psychopathology and human sexuality as an Adjunct professor; and has publications in the fields of trauma and sexual health.
Dr. Blaise Amendolace is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Qualified Clinical Supervisor, and researcher. He is an author, professor, trainer, public speaker, and consultant with over 15 years of professional experience. He has worked in various outpatient settings, university counseling centers, assisted living facilities, sexual abuse treatment programs, and psychiatric hospitals. He has spent the past 10 years working at both public and private universities in South Florida, serving as an Adjunct Faculty, University Psychologist, Assessment Coordinator, Training Coordinator, and Clinical Director.
Dr. Amendolace provides empirically supported and culturally competent therapy services to his clients. He is a trauma-specialist, having extensive training and experience working with survivors of childhood abuse/maltreatment, violence, and cultural concerns. He excels at helping his clients improve and/or resolve their relationship difficulties, depression, anxiety, or lack of pleasure in life.
Dr. Amendolace has written and researched in the areas of personality assessment, racial equity, and childhood sexual abuse. He completed an APA-accredited Doctoral Internship at Florida International University’s Counseling and Psychological Services. He completed his Post-Doctoral Residency at the Center for Assessment and Intervention at Nova Southeastern University, while concurrently working at The Center for Psychological Fitness. He completed his doctoral and master’s degrees at Florida Institute of Technology and his bachelor’s degree at Florida State University, graduating with Honors. He served as a trainer and organizer with the Racial Equity Institute providing organizations, corporations, and others with trainings focused on identifying and dismantling systemic and institutional racism.
Brent A. Satterly, PhD, LCSW is a Full Professor at Widener University’s Center for Social Work Education. With over 25 years clinical and educational experience, his areas of expertise include human sexuality and social work pedagogies, clinical work with LGBTQIA+ populations, professional identity management & intersectionalities, HIV/AIDS, family and sex therapy, and the use of pop culture in teaching social justice. He is well published, including his recent 2020 co-authored textbook, Sexuality Concepts for Social Workers (2nd ed.). He is a member of good standing in the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) and the Pennsylvania Association of Undergraduate Social Work Education (PAUSWE).
Don Dyson has an undergraduate degree in communications and studied clinical social work at Bryn Mawr. There, he discovered the real need in human services to address issues in human sexuality. He then completed his doctoral degree in human sexuality at the University of Pennsylvania. While both working and studying full time, he developed a career in sexuality education that included AIDS Delaware, Planned Parenthood, Wesley House, CAI, Inc., and the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services. From that experience, I moved to the academic world where he could pursue his passion: the training of sexuality professionals.
Logan Levkoff, Ph.D., is an AASECT certified sex educator and served on the AASECT Board of Directors. She received her Ph.D. in Human Sexuality, Marriage, and Family Life Education from New York University and an M.S. in Human Sexuality Education and a B.A. in English from the University of Pennsylvania. She lives in New York City with her husband, son, and daughter.
A recognized expert on sexuality and relationships, Dr. Logan Levkoff encourages honest conversation about sexuality and the role it plays in our culture. Logan makes it clear that sex and sexuality are not “dirty” words; she works to create an environment where people feel comfortable asking (and getting answers to) their most personal questions. Logan empowers children, adolescents, and adults to embrace their sexuality and challenge the impractical, and often unhealthy, messages that they are exposed to.
Logan is dedicated to perpetuating healthy and positive messages about sexuality and relationships. She speaks on a wide range of issues, including sexual health and sexuality education, trends in sexuality, relationship hurdles, and the role of sexuality in pop culture and politics. For over a decade, Logan has been teaching groups of all ages and from a variety of backgrounds.
She has designed and implemented sexuality education programs, faculty development, and parent education in many secular and religious independent schools, universities, medical schools, and community organizations. Logan’s work with teens and parents has been profiled in numerous publications, including The New York Times.
Lenore Walker is interested in research on various forms of gender violence especially battered women, sexual assault, sexual harassment, sex and human trafficking, false confessions of women, and child abuse. She is a clinical forensic psychologist who testifies in cases across the United States. She is involved in international psychology issues having served as the Chair of the APA Committee on International Relations in Psychology. As a member of the APA Council of Representatives, she is involved in the future of psychology on a policy level.
In August 2023, Dr. Waler received the APF Gold Medal Award for Impact in Psychology: Lenore E. Walker (2023). American Psychologist, 78(5), 662–663. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001203. Below is the APF statement:
The APF Gold Medal for Impact in Psychology recognizes Lenore E. Walker for her groundbreaking work with a particularly vulnerable population, those with a syndrome she named Battered Woman Syndrome (BWS). Lenore E. Walker’s work has had a transformational impact in psychology, in the courts, in public policy, and in the lives of countless women over a period of more than 40 years. BWS is accepted as a criminal defense.
In federal court and all state courts and may be raised as ‘state of mind’ for damages in personal injury cases and in family courts. The central tenet of Dr. Walker’s contributions is that the victims of trauma from familial and intimate partner violence, abuse, and degradation all share experiencing common trauma symptoms that may need effective trauma-specific assessment and treatment. Her work has impacted the lives of hundreds of thousands of abused women and their families and continues to be used and expanded upon today. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
Margaret Nichols, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist, AASECT-certified sex therapist and sex therapy supervisor, and a WPATH GEI certified Mentor. She has over 40 years of clinical experience, including 35 years as the founder and director of the Institute for Personal Growth, New Jersey, a large multi-site outpatient psychotherapy practice focused on sex/gender/relationship diverse populations. Her background includes community organizing: she was a co-founder of the first federally-funded women’s center/domestic violence shelter in 1976; a founder and first Director of the Hyacinth AIDS Foundation in 1985. In the early 2000’s, Dr. Nichols led IPG to become the first therapy center in New Jersey to use a gender affirmative approach working with trans/nonbinary children, adolescents, and young adults. For the last fifteen years her practice has focused heavily on work with trans/nonbinary youth, and she is the co-Director of MSTI’s Transgender Affirmative Mental Health Care certification program. Her book, The Modern Clinician’s Guide to Working with LGBTQ+ Clients, is a leading textbook for psychotherapists working with queer populations. Dr. Nichols has been trained in Imago Relationship Counseling, Gottman Couples work, and EMDR in addition to her training in sex therapy and transgender care.
Dr. Daniel N. Watter received his doctoral degree from New York University in 1985 and has also earned a post-graduate certificate in Medical Humanities (with a concentration in medical ethics) from Drew University. He is licensed as both a psychologist and a marital and family therapist. In addition, he is Board Certified in Sex Therapy by the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT), and the American Board of Sexology (ACS), of which is also holds Fellowship status. Dr. Watter is an AASECT certified sex therapy supervisor and has been elected to Fellowship Status in the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health (ISSWSH) and the Sexual Medicine Society of North America (SMSNA).
A frequent lecturer at professional meetings throughout North America, Dr. Watter is the author of more than 30 professional articles and book chapters on topics such as sexual function and dysfunction, and ethics in healthcare practice. He is the author of the recently released book, “The Existential Importance of the Penis: A Guide to Understanding Male Sexuality (Routledge)”.
Dr. Needle received her M.S. and Psy.D. in clinical psychology from Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She received her B.A. in psychology from Barnard College, Columbia University. Dr. Needle completed an internship in clinical psychology at University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Medical School in Piscataway, New Jersey.
Dr. Needle is a Licensed Psychologist and Certified Sex Therapist in private practice at the Center for Marital and Sexual Health of South Florida (www.cmshsf.com). She is also the founder and executive director of the Whole Health Psychological Center (www.wholehealthpsych.com) a comprehensive psychological practice with therapists with a broad range of specialty areas. She is the founder and CEO of the Advanced Mental Health Training Institute, which provides continuing education to Florida mental health professionals, as well as Psychologists and sex therapists across the world (www.advancedmentalhealthtrainings.com). She has an ongoing blog and personal website (www.drrachel.com).
Dr. Needle is an Adjunct Professor of Psychology in the Department of Behavioral Sciences, in the Masters in Forensic Psychology, and in the Doctorate in Criminal Justice programs at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Dr. Needle’s clinical and research interests include sexual function and dysfunction, relationship concerns, sexual compulsivity, battered women, and trauma. She has a particular interest in working with individuals both during and following cancer treatment. Dr. Needle has presented her research and clinical work at national and international conferences. She has been quoted in a number of popular magazines such as Details, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Cosmo Girl, and Shape, and has written several articles for Glamour Magazine’s online Blog: Smitten.
Richard M. Siegel, Ph.D., LMHC, CST, is the Director of Modern Sex Therapy Institutes, a postgraduate continuing education institute training sex therapists and sexual medicine specialists at multiple sites throughout the country. Dr. Siegel is a Florida-licensed mental health counselor and Board-certified sex therapist, and is certified by the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) as a sex therapist and supervisor. He has a rich experiential background, including over 20 years working in sexuality education and addiction treatment, teaching on college campuses, and maintaining a private sex therapy practice. He enjoys a reputation as a seasoned and in-demand workshop and conference presenter, in addition to his work in training and supervising sex therapists.
Dr. Siegel has served AASECT as conference co-chair for three consecutive years, followed by two elected terms as Board Secretary, and has been appointed as the chair of the Supervisor Certification Committee. He is also a Clinical Member of the Society for Sex Therapy and Research (SSTAR), and served on the Executive Committee of that organization as its Membership Officer from 2015-2017.
He completed his Doctoral dissertation at the American Academy of Clinical Sexologists in Orlando, FL, with a research focus on the integration of healthy sexuality and addiction treatment. He has worked enthusiastically to integrate traditional sex therapy into the emergent specialty of sexual medicine, as well as the addiction treatment field.
Dr. Holly Richmond is a Somatic Psychotherapist, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (LMFT), Certified Sex Therapist (CST) and Associate Director of Modern Sex Therapy Institutes. This unique combination of credentials enables her to focus on clients’ cognitive processes as well as mind-body health. In addition to teaching numerous sexual health-related subjects, she works with women, men, couples, and gender-diverse individuals on relationship and sexuality issues, offering sex therapy and sexual health coaching nationally and internationally. Her treatment specialties include low libido, sexual dysfunction, compulsive sexuality (often called “addiction”), desire discrepancies in couples, recovery from sexual assault and abuse, and alternative/non-traditional sexual expression. Her newly released book Reclaiming Pleasure: A Sex-Positive Guide for Moving Past Sexual Trauma and Living a Passionate Life (New Harbinger, Oct. 2021) is an innovative look at both somatic and psychological factors in survivors’ erotic recovery.
Dr. Holly is regularly quoted in publications and media outlets including The New York Times, CNN, Shape, NBC, Wired, Forbes, Oprah, Men’s Health, Cosmopolitan and Women’s Health. She is a sought-after consultant in the sextech industry and is seen as a pioneer in the clinical exploration of sex and technology, and how they work together as human sexuality evolves in the 21st century. Each interlinked facet of her work is grounded in a sex-positive perspective: all sex is good sex as long as it is consensual and pleasurable. This non-judgmental position allows her to assist clients in discovering their true needs, desires and personal path to wellness.
