An Intersectional Approach to Sex Therapy: Centering the Lives of Indigenous, Racialized, and People of Color

When a Black, Indigenous, or racialized individual or relationship works with a sex therapist, a host of cultural circumstances can contribute to intimacy discord and sexual dysfunction. This collection brings together clinicians and educators who share their approaches, bridging sex therapy with a client’s relationship to their racial, cultural, and ethnic identity.

This essential book aims to enhance therapists’ supervisory practices and clinical treatments when working with culturally diverse and marginalized populations, fostering greater understanding and awareness. Innovative tools that integrate the impacts of acculturation, minority status, intersectionality, and minority stress are discussed, with case studies, demonstrations, and critical questions included.

This collection is a necessary read for anyone who is training to be or who is an established sex therapist, marriage and family therapist, relationship counselor, or sexuality educator and consultant.

Reece M. Malone is a sexologist, sex therapist and sexuality educator. He is an associate professor at Antioch University Seattle and is a certified sexuality educator supervisor through the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists.

Marla Renee Stewart is a sexologist, sex coach, and educator at Velvet Lips. She is also a co-founder of the Sex Down South Conference, Faculty in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at Clayton State University, and cowrote The Ultimate Guide to Seduction and Foreplay.

James C. Wadley is a professor and chair of the Counseling and Human Services Master of Human Services department at Lincoln University. He is the founder and principal of the Association of Black Sexologists and Clinicians.

Mariotta Gary- Smith is a cultural sexologist and community- based sexuality educator. She’s a Co-Foundress of the Women of Color Sexual Health Network and is a certified sexuality educator through the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists.