Podcast Guest Agent

Dr. Tina Schermer Sellers
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.
Location & Time Zone:
Greater Seattle - USA

Detailed Biography:

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. You can follow her on Instagram at @DrTinaShameless and @Inanna_Rising_PAT

Topics of Expertise:

• Dr. Tina speaks on many topics at the intersection of sexual and relational health, parenting, and the impact of sexual shame on our health and wellness. For example:
• How to be your 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, and relational, and sexual health? How can I heal?
• How can psychedelics be used in the healing of sexual shame and religious sexual trauma?
• Dr. Sellers shares a model for how to heal sexual shame. Erasing the M.E.S.S. (Model for Erasing Sexual Shame)
• How to heal and thrive after religious sexual trauma and purity culture.
• How do you nurture intentional and sacred sexuality?
• How do you foster intimacy and sexual health over a long-term relationship?
• Single parenting and blended families – what are the pitfalls and strengths?
• How can you thrive after divorce?
• Improving family functioning – What are key pillars?