
Dr. Tina Schermer Sellers
Licensed Sex & Gender Feminist Psychotherapist • Best-Selling Author
- tinaschermersellers.com
- Greater Seattle, USA — PST
“A licensed sex and gender feminist psychotherapist, best-selling author, researcher, emeriti professor, and media personality whose expertise spans sex therapy, spiritual intimacy, parenting, medicine, and social justice.”
30 Years
Clinical Professor
2
Organizations Founded
Pioneer
Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy
“Dr. Tina Schermer Sellers, PhD, LMFT, CST-S is a licensed sex and gender feminist psychotherapist, best-selling author, researcher, emeriti professor, and media personality whose expertise spans sex therapy, spiritual intimacy, parenting, medicine, and social justice.”
Dr. Tina Schermer Sellers, PhD, LMFT, CST‑S is a Swedish American therapist, educator, and author whose childhood on her grandparents’ homestead near Puget Sound—within Coast Salish territory—deeply shaped her values of community, resilience, and land stewardship.
Now residing in Sandy, Oregon—on the lands of the Cayuse, Umatilla, Walla Walla, and Clackamas Peoples—she lives with her partner on sacred wooded acreage. There, at Blackberry Retreat Center, she offers retreats and trainings for clinicians on the 4‑D Wheel for Expansive Integration and psychedelic-assisted therapy. As the first in her immigrant family to earn an advanced degree, Tina spent nearly three decades as a professor of marriage and family therapy, medical family therapy, and human sexuality before authoring two influential books: Sex, God & the Conservative Church and Shameless Parenting, both recognized for their impact on healing religious sexual shame and trauma, and empowering relational intimacy.
She is the founder and chief advisor to the Northwest Institute on Intimacy—offering postgraduate clinician training in sex therapy and relational health—and Founder and Executive Director of Inanna Rising, a clinician membership collective dedicated to equitable, just, and patient-centered psychedelic-assisted therapy training and support for activists and clinicians.
Dr. Tina remains committed to social justice, integrity, and weaving cutting-edge cultural, spiritual, and sexual healing into a compassionate praxis. Follow her on Instagram at @DrTinaShameless and @Inanna_Rising_PAT.
“Sexual shame is not a personal failing — it is a systemic wound passed down through culture, religion, and family. Healing begins when we create brave, loving spaces for honest conversations about sexuality, spirituality, and identity. My work helps individuals, parents, and clinicians build those spaces — at home, in therapy rooms, and in communities — so that every person can live in wholeness and relational health.”
How can parents become their child's best relationship resource, sex educator, and ally?
What are the typical relational tasks and curiosities of each age and stage of youth as they grow?
What is the impact of sexual shame on body image, relational health, and sexual well-being — and how can we heal?
How can psychedelics be used in the healing of sexual shame and religious sexual trauma?
Can you walk us through the M.E.S.S. model — your framework for erasing sexual shame?
How do you help people heal and thrive after religious sexual trauma and purity culture?
How do you nurture intentional and sacred sexuality in everyday life?
How can people truly thrive after divorce?
What are the key pillars of improving family functioning?
- Understanding how religious sexual shame is transmitted — and how to break the cycle
- Practical language and tools for age-appropriate conversations with children about sexuality
- The M.E.S.S. model — a concrete framework for erasing sexual shame
- How psychedelic-assisted therapy is being used to heal deep sexual and spiritual wounds
- Pathways to sacred, intentional intimacy in long-term relationships
- Tools for co-parenting, blended families, and thriving after divorce

Sex, God & the Conservative Church
A groundbreaking exploration of how religious teachings around sexuality create shame — and a compassionate roadmap for healing. Required reading for survivors of purity culture.

Shameless Parenting
A practical, values-based guide for parents who want to raise sexually healthy, shame-free children — covering conversations at every age and stage.
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Website
tinaschermersellers.com
Location
Greater Seattle, USA — PST
Expertise
Sex Therapy, Religious Sexual Shame, Feminist Therapy
Credentials
PhD · LMFT · CST-S · 2x Bestselling Author
Organizations
NW Institute on Intimacy · Inanna Rising