Suki Hanfling, LCSW

Suki Hanfling is an AASECT Diplomate (and Certified Sex Therapist) and an AASECT certified provider of CE’s.  She is the Founder and Director of The Institute for Sexuality and Intimacy, (also called ISI), an advanced sex therapy fee-for-service training program in Waltham, Mass. She trains highly experienced clinicians who have offices throughout the greater Boston area who then provide sex therapy for clients. She has trained 10 clinicians who are currently AASECT certified sex therapists.

Suki was the Founder/Director of the former McLean Hospital Human Sexuality Program and the Cofounder/Director of the former McLean Institute for Couples and Families. Before founding ISI, The Institute for Sexuality and Intimacy, Suki worked at McLean Hospital and in private practice for 28 years, providing therapy, supervision, and training in individual, couples, and sex therapy.

Suki was the recipient in 2001 of the 1st “New England/New York American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT)” Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Sex Therapy as a Therapist, Teacher, and Supervisor. While working at McLean, she was awarded the 2nd Annual McLean Hospital Social Work Service Award for Greatest Contributions to Social Work Practice. Suki Hanfling graduated Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Rochester with High Honors in French and Comparative Literature.

She has given over 400 workshops, seminars, and grand round presentations on couples therapy, sexuality and sex therapy at various universities, hospitals, mental health centers, and patient advocacy groups in the United States, Canada, and Europe. Suki has also been a guest speaker on numerous television and radio programs and has been interviewed by the media.

Suki co-edited and helped write the original as well as two updates of the Harvard Medical School Publication: Sexuality in Midlife and Beyond.