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 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. Her revolutionary perspectives have been expressed on platforms such as Spirituality & Health, Refinery 29, Vocal, Medium, and Bust Magazines, along with many podcast, radio, news, and TV outlets. Known for exposing the impact of patriarchy and sexual shame on our ability to securely attach to our partners, and instruct our children to attach to theirs, Dr. Sellers’ book Sex, God, & the Conservative Church – Erasing Shame from Sexual Intimacy has had a global impact. Her latest book, Shameless Parenting – Everything You Need to Raise Shame-free, Confident, Kids and Heal Your Shame Too! was a New Release Bestseller in eight categories. She speaks throughout the world on how to heal, and how to raise shame-free relationally confident children. In 2015, Dr. Sellers founded the Northwest Institute on Intimacy, a post-graduate institute to train psychotherapists, educators, clergy, and physicians in sexual health, healing sexual shame and trauma, and understanding their sexual biases. In 2023, Dr. Tina founded InannaRising.org – A private membership community for psychedelic assisted therapists and medical providers to get ongoing clinical consultation, collaboration, training, and support in creating scholarships for the under resourced, and participation in an indigenous reparation fund.
• 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?
12: Dr. Tina Schermer Sellers: Unmasking Into Authenticity, Love, and Intimacy.
How to Overcome Sexual Shame | Interview with Dr. Tina Schermer Sellers (Ep. 64)
Dr. Tina Schermer Sellers: Making Meaning of Our Sexual Experiences | Doing Well #20
Pleasure Project: Shame & Desire with Dr. Jenn Kennedy and guest Dr. Tina Schermer Sellers
Shameless Parenting with Dr. Tina Schermer Sellers
Purity Movie | Dr. Tina Schermer-Sellers | Clip1 | Discovering The Purity Fallout
Trailer for Sex, God & the Conservative Church Erasing Shame from Sexual Intimacy
Purity Movie | Dr. Tina Schermer-Sellers | Clip 4 | The Billy Graham Rule