As a board certified sex therapist (clinical sexologist), Dr. Libby addresses the mind/body connection by utilizing cognitive/behavioral therapy as well as addressing the physical and medical variables and relationship issues which affect and often define sexual problems. Dr. Libby diagnoses and treats a variety of sexual concerns, including low and inhibited sexual desire, arousal disorders (including a lack of female arousal and erection problems), lack of orgasm (anorgasmia), premature ejaculation, inability to ejaculate, painful intercourse (dyspareunia), vaginismus (inability to admit the penis for intercourse), sexual abuse and other trauma, and a lack of balance about sex (including obsessive/compulsive sexual issues such as Internet pornography and interactions), affairs and flings, and regaining trust, and sexual fetishes and other concerns that trouble a person and/or his/her partner(s).
To be legitimate and useful, a sex therapist should be board certified by at least one national board. Four national boards certify Dr. Libby as a clinical sexologist (sex therapist). Many therapists who call themselves "sex therapists" are not bonafide sex therapists at all. They often are licensed marriage and family counselors, but they usually are not board certified as sex therapists.
Taking sex therapy courses or stating that a therapist has "intensive training" does NOT legitimately qualify a therapist to claim they are a sex therapist. No one is a sex therapist because they proclaim they are a sex therapist! A counselor must be board certified as a sex therapist to be a REAL sex therapist. Consumers seeking a sex therapist should not be fooled by listings on Psychology Today, Google, Bing or other websites that uncritically and inaccurately allow counselors to label themselves as sex therapists.
Psychology Today wrongly endorses "sex therapists" who have few, if any, credentials, and who are not board certified. Similarly, Google AdWords includes ads by therapists who are not actual sex therapists. Buyer beware!
