Member News

AASECT congratulates the following members on their new certifications:

Lori Michels, LMFT, Irene Olson Walton, MA, MSW, LCSW-C, and Melissa A. Novak, LCSW were certified as sex therapists. Angela Culbreth, MS, LPC, Peregrine M. Kavros, PhD, MBA, and Rosemary A. Munns, PsyD, LP were also certified as sex therapists, under special circumstances.

Debra L. Ketterhagen, MSN, CNM was certified as a sexuality counselors under special circumstances.

I'd like to invite everyone to extend a warm welcome to our new Book Review Coordinator, Bianca Nagy.

The results of the recent AASECT election are now official! We'd like to congratulate the following members of AASECT:

Our new Nominating Committee Members are Sandy Caron (as our Eastern representative) and Marty Klein (as our Western representative).

Our newly elected members of the Board of Directors is as follows:

Diplomate Certified Sex Therapist and longtime AASECT member Wendy Maltz's book The Porn Trap: The Essential Guide to Overcoming Problems Caused by Pornography (coauthored with her husband Larry Maltz) is now available in an (uncensored) Chinese translation. Several years ago, a young female translator from China, Ms. Carmen Song, approached the Maltzes requesting permission to translate the book. She insisted that there was a great need for the book in China.

Sandy L. Caron, PhD, has recently returned from abroad, where she offered a course through the University of Maine entitled Human Sexuality in Europe. Caron traveled with a dozen undergraduate students from London to Amsterdam to Stockholm. She previously offered a similar study course through Syracuse University from 1996-2005.  

AASECT member Marti Barham, RN, PhD recently died this past January. She was an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist (1982), Supervisor of Sex Therapy (1989), and Diplomate of Sex Therapy (2003). 

Marti was also an active contributor to various AASECT committees. She was an:

Certified Sex Therapist and Supervisor Stephanie Buehler recently accepted a position as adjunct faculty at Alliant International University teaching graduate level courses in human sexuality.

AASECT welcomes the following new members this month:

You may have noticed a dearth of book reviews on the AASECT website over the past few months. This is because your editorial team is on the hunt for a new Book Review Coordinator... someone who can play matchmaker between the new industry-specific titles appearing in the marketplace and their perfect reviewers.

The responsibilities of the Book Review Coordinator are to:

Diplomate of Sex Therapy Linda Weiner and Certified Sex Therapist Constance Avery-Clark co-authored the article "Sensate Focus: Clarifying the Masters and Johnson's Model." The article, which emphasizes "the crucial difference between the intended aim of non-demand touching for one's own interest and the misleading interpretation of non-demand pleasuring of the partner," is available online through the Sexual and Relationship Therapy journal.