RICHARD M. SIEGEL, PH.D., LMHC, CST, is Co-Director of Modern Sex Therapy Institutes, a postgraduate continuing education institute training sex therapists and sexual medicine specialists at multiple sites throughout the country.   Mr. Siegel is a Florida-licensed mental health counselor and Board-certified sex therapist, and is certified by AASECT (American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors & Therapists) as a sex therapist and supervisor.  He has a rich experiential background, including over 20 years working in sexuality education and addiction treatment, teaching on college campuses, and a private sex therapy practice, as well as being a seasoned and in-demand workshop and conference presenter, in addition to his work in training and supervising sex therapists.

Dr. Siegel has served AASECT as conference co-chair for three consecutive years, followed by two elected terms as Board Secretary, and has been appointed as the incoming chair of the Supervisor Certification Committee. He is also a Clinical Member of SSTAR (Society for Sex Therapy & Research), and was elected to serve as its Membership Officer in 2016.

He has recently completed his Doctoral dissertation at the American Academy of Clinical Sexologists in Orlando, FL, with a research focus on the integration of healthy sexuality and addiction treatment. He has worked enthusiastically to integrate traditional sex therapy into the emergent specialty of sexual medicine, as well as the addiction treatment field. Dr. Siegel’s web site is https://www.modernsextherapyinstitutes.com/