Dr. Aline Zoldbrod

Aline Zoldbrod, Ph.D. is a Boston based licensed psychologist and AASECT certified sex therapist and Diplomate and the author of three well-regarded, commercially published books about sexuality and relationships.  Her book, SexSmart: How Your Childhood Shaped Your Sexual Life and What to Do About It has been translated into Spanish, Turkish and Polish and won ForeWord Magazine's award for being one of the top three self-help books published that year (1998).   Zoldbrod has been publishing in the professional literature on sexuality since 1992.  In addition to articles in peer reviewed journals, she has contributed chapters on sexuality to medical textbooks.   Her ideas are cited in the professional literature on sexuality and relationships. Her website, SexSmart.com, has a wealth of ideas and resources to help you understand and enjoy your sexuality.  Dr. Zoldbrod is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Michigan Sexual Health Certificate Program.

Not afraid to take a stand, she has been quoted in liberally in the media, including  over 40 major U.S. newspapers and   magazines.  Dr. Zoldbrod frequently is quoted on a wide range of  topics, including  sexual desire, sexual dysfunction,  sexual pleasure, gender relations, asexuality, sexual compulsions, adolescent sexuality, pornography,  and the mystery of sexuality.

She writes for WBUR's Commonhealth Blog in Boston, for YourTango.com, and she blogs about sexuality at NewsMax.com. Her February 14, 2014 story "Some 70 year old women having the best sex ever"   on CommonHealth Blog got over 14,000 shares on Facebook.  In fact, Dr. Zoldbrod has been seen as an expert on the internet for decades. She began decades ago as an editor at the Human Sexuality Service (HSX) on Compuserve.  More recently, she served as IVillage’s Expert on the Mismatched Libidos message board for a year.  and formerly had a column on HisandHerHealth.com  entitled “Life from A to Z."

Dr. Zoldbrod is recognized by her peers nationally for her creative, active, psychotherapeutic interventions and for her many contributions to the field of sex therapy. The creator of the interpersonal theory of sexual development, The Milestones of Sexual Development, she is interested in exploring the factors which make it possible for a person to allow themselves to be both emotionally and sexually attached to the same person. Her model of sexual development can be found on the web on her website  at  www.sexsmart.com. 

Known for being an engaging, warm, funny and provocative speaker and teacher, Dr. Zoldbrod has been the invited keynote speaker throughout the US, and in Canada and Australia. She frequently speaks to physicians at Grand Rounds and at conferences.  She has been lecturing about sexuality to national and international mental health  professionals for over 20 years.  Dr. Zoldbrod is based in Boston, where she is in private practice, seeing individuals and couples for sex therapy, couple therapy, and individual therapy.  She is known for her intelligence, her active and effective psychotherapy, her warmth and her sense of humor.  Phone consultations to see if we are a good fit for therapy are always a good first step!

Contact her by phone, in Lexington, Massachusetts, at 781-863 -1877.