Aline Zoldbrod, PhD - Expert

About Aline Zoldbrod

I'm Dr. Aline Zoldbrod, a Boston based sex therapist, psychologist, individual and couples counselor, and a nationally and internationally recognized expert in the influence of your family of origin on your sexuality.  I am the author of three commercially published and highly regarded books on relationships and sexuality.  I have been cited in the professional and lay literature since 1992, and my innovative ideas about solving relationship and sexual problems have spread from Australia to Ghana to New Zealand. I'm the "real deal”, a seasoned, respected, brainy, wise, warm and creative couples and individual therapist with multiple decades of clinical experience.

I know how terrible it is to feel hopeless and scared-- and even ashamed -- about yourself, your behavior, and your relationships. I can help you solve your most difficult problems in relationships and sexuality. I have helped couples who have fought for 20 years find love again and have helped 60 year old virgins learn to joyfully embrace their sexuality. Thankfully, change is possible, but who you select for your therapist makes all the difference.

I invite you to check out my website  for a wealth of information  about your sexuality. In addition,  I hope you will make a SexSmart BodyMap (1998) and see if this innovative exercise holds some clues to more sexual pleasure. 

My theory of the Milestones of Sexual Development, an interpersonal theory of sexual  development (1998) can help you gain new insight into why you are the way you are sexually and come up with a game plan to learn to enjoy sex and human connection more. I hope you will take a look at my model.

I have written articles, book chapters, and three books. My ideas have been incorporated into the literature on improving romantic and sexual relationships , including citations in books on male and female sexuality, distressed couples, overcoming affairs, male psychology, female psychology, self esteem, infertility, sexual addiction and sexual trauma.

Besides being recommended by over a dozen of America's top sexologists, my book Sex Smart won Fore Word Magazine's award for being one of the top three self help books of 1998. Sex Smart was named as an outstanding self help book in the American Psychological Association Monitor's article, "Recommended Reading '' January, 2008, pages 26-27. Sex Smart has been translated into Spanish, Turkish and Polish and is used in clinics, colleges and college counseling services in the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, and Spain. It is on the recommended reading list for many 12-step programs for sexual addiction and compulsivity, as well.

I served as IVillage's Expert on the Mismatched Libidos message board for a year. My ideas also appear on sites like Parents Today, Marriage-Help, MSN, Ladies Home Journal, Yahoo!, Salon, SLAA, Sexual Addiction Healing, Co-Dependency-Recovery, Heart Healer, 12Step.org, Quit Porn Addiction, Infidelity, and EmpowerHer, to name a few. 

Other media have found me, as well. I have appeared on national TV and on international radio, and have been quoted in almost every major newspaper and magazine in the United States, including the New York Times, The Washington Post, The LA Times, Time Magazine, The Week, and US News and World Report.

I'm an especially warm and engaged therapist. I'm known for my clinical excellence, warmth, my sense of humor, and my creative and helpful ideas. I work in a way that respects and integrates mind and body, which is ideal for addressing intense emotion and sexuality. I'm the only child of two very loving, sexually positive parents, and I am completely comfortable with sexuality, so I can help you talk about sexual issues (your own or couple's ones) that seem very dangerous or insoluble

If  you live in Massachusetts and want to explore working therapeutically with me, please contact me through my website. But wherever you live, I hope you will access all the free information and ideas I provide on my website, so you can have a more fulfilling and joyous sexual and emotional  life.