ABOUT DR.Z

Highly Experienced, Licensed, Certified Sex Therapist in Boston

A seasoned therapist known for her intelligence, insight, warmth and humor

Associated with the Lahey Clinic Center for Sexual Function as their
Sex Therapist

Expertise in All Aspects of Sex Therapy

Professionally recognized by peers for contribution to sex therapy

Author of three books on sexuality and relationships

Offers treatment for a wide variety of non-sexual problems.

Aline Zoldbrod, Ph.D., a Boston-based licensed psychologist, is certified as a sex therapist by the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) and the American Board of Sexology. She is professionally active in many sex therapy organizations

TREATMENT PHILOSOPHY

As a therapist, Aline Zoldbrod is known for her intelligence, humor, and warmth. In practice for 30 years, she brings her life experience as a woman, wife and mother to the therapy using an involved and active model rather than a clinical, distant approach.

Her treatment philosophy is

•   To be very active in every session:
•   A carefully developed, individualized treatment plan
•   Frequent feedback
•   Concrete help and varied treatment strategies
•   Attention to the relationship
•   A therapist who is emotionally present in the therapy
  

She works with women and men of all ages and sexual orientations, providing individual, couple, and sexual therapy.

Associated with the Lahey Clinic Center for Sexual Function (Peabody, Massachusetts) as their sex therapist, she is well known in the Boston area and is on the staff at Winchester Hospital.

NATIONAL RECOGNITION BY HER PEERS

Dr. Zoldbrod has a national reputation as a sex therapist. She has been publishing about sexuality for professionals and consumers for over ten years.

Beginning with the publication of Men, Women and Infertility in 1993, the high quality of Dr. Zoldbrod's writings on sexuality and sex therapy has been recognized by professional groups such as AASECT, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, RESOLVE and APA.

Her work has been recognized as an important component of the training of sex therapists nationally and internationally.

In 2003, Contemporary Sexuality, the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapist (AASECT)'s professional voice, published Dr. Zoldbrod's article on sexual development as part of their Updates of Clinical and Educational Sexology, " state-of-the-art education for AASECT members and other professionals."

Her article, "Assessing Intrapsychic Blocks to Sexual Pleasure Using the Milestones of Sexual Development Model" is based on her 1998 book SexSmart.

Expertise in All Aspects of Sex Therapy

AUTHOR OF GROUNDBREAKING BOOKS

Dr. Zoldbrod is the author of three books about sexuality and relationships, including the award winning SexSmart: How Your Childhood Shaped Your Sexual Life and What to Do About It (New Harbinger,1998).

Besides being recommended by over a dozen of America's top sexologists, Sex Smart won Fore Word Magazine's award for being one of the top three self help books of 1998. It has been translated into Spanish and Turkish and is used in clinics, colleges and college counseling services in the US, Mexico, and Spain.

She has also authored Getting Around the Boulder in the Road: Using Imagery to Cope with Fertility Problems (Lexington, 1990) and Men, Women and Infertility: Intervention and Treatment Techniques (Lexington Books, 1993).
Both have been highly recommended by National RESOLVE (the infertility support organization) and the American Society for Reproductive Medicine.)

NEW - Her latest book, Sex Talk: Uncensored Exercises for Exploring What Really Turns You On, co-written with erotica writer Lauren Dockett (New Harbinger Publications, 2002) aims to help you take the fear out of talking about sex with the one you love.

Dr. Zoldbrod's other publications include articles in journals, including Clinical Consultations in Obstetrics and Gynecology and Medical Psychotherapy, and a chapter in Infertility Counseling (Parthenon, 1999).

Other Recognition as an Expert

• Quoted by National and International Media -
  Time Magazine: on relationships, men, women and sex
  Ladies Home Journal: on sex
  Yahoo.com: on relationships
  The Nation--Thailand's Independent Daily Newspaper: women and sexuality
• Interviewed on radio in the USA, Canada England and Ireland
   BBC Radio, London: relationships and sex
• Interviewed on CBS: talking to children about sex
• Dr. Zoldbrod is a contributor to several sites on the Internet, including www.sexualhealth.com and www.sexmd.com. Dr. Zoldbrod also writes articles on sexuality for Vibrance Associates websites, www.hisandherhealth.com and www.newshe.com.
• Quoted in other web-media, such as parentstoday.com, msn.com, lhj.com,  and iVillage.com.
• Profiled in a new book (Oxmoor Press, October 2003), The Women Doctors Guide to Health and Healing: 200 Top Doctors Give You Their Best Advice for Preventing Illness and Treating Health Concerns.

MEMBERSHIPS AND AFFILIATIONS

Dr. Zoldbrod is a member of the American Psychological Society and many of its divisions, including the Division of Men and Masculinity, the Division of Family Psychology, and the Division of Health Psychology.

Many organizations and groups in the United States and abroad recommend SexSmart, Men, Women and Infertility, and Getting Around the Boulder in the Road: Using Imagery to Cope with Fertility Problems.

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

As a speaker, Dr. Zoldbrod is known for her energy, enthusiasm and the practical solutions she packs into every speech. She has been invited to lecture all over the United States, Canada, and Australia, presenting her work at conferences for mental health and sexuality professionals.
An expert on gender role differences in relationships, she has lectured on love and marriage, male/female communication patterns, the healing power of touch and love, overcoming marital conflict, and the terrible impact of emotional and physical violence in relationships.

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

Dr. Zoldbrod graduated from Oberlin College Phi Beta Kappa with High Honors in Sociology and Anthropology. She was awarded her doctorate from Brandeis University, after she won a special fellowship to pursue her doctoral research.

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