Let's Talk About Sex ... Therapy

SEX! Sarah and Kelly really do cover everything, including the sex challenges that can arise (or not) from chronic Illness.

Dr. Daniela Wittmann joins the Fork to discuss how sex therapy can help those suffering from sexual dysfunction, how medical practices can make it easier for their patients to address what they make be ashamed to admit, and what questions patients and their partners should ask.

And Sarah add "repertoire" to her repertoire.

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Guest Speaker Bio

Daniela Wittmann, PhD, MSW; Department of Urology and School of Social Work

Daniela Wittmann, PhD, LMSW, is a Clinical Associate Professor in the University of Michigan Department of Urology in the University of Michigan Health System. She is an AASECT-certified sex therapist and a sex therapy supervisor. She received her BA Hons. in Russian Studies and Psychology at the University of Keele, Staffs., UK, her MSW at Simmons College School of Social Work, Boston and her PhD in Social Work at Michigan State University. She is one of the leading members in the Prostate Cancer Survivorship Program at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center. 

She has 30 years of experience in individual, couple and family psychotherapy with patients with chronic illnesses including cancer and severe mental illness. Her research interests include the use of mixed methods to study the effect of cancer on sexual health and the development, testing and dissemination of interventions that promote sexual recovery after cancer treatment. She is currently the PI of a multisite study, funded by the Movember Foundation, aimed at developing and testing an intervention to support couples’ sexual recovery after treatment for prostate cancer.

Twitter @DrWittmann

Resources

• Jones, A. C., Johnson, N. C., Wenglein, S., Elshershaby, S. T. (2019). The State of Sex Research in MFT and Family Studies Literature: A Seventeen-Year Content Analysis. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 45, 275– 295. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmft.12344
• AASECT (American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists) 
• The Sexual Medicine Society of North America (SMSNA)

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