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One-Line Bio
The Center for Healthy Sexuality offers assessment, treatment and group therapy for men, women and couples struggling with sexual addiction, compulsivity, and sexual anorexia. Additionally we provide individual and conjoint therapy related to sexual desire and dysfunction that are not otherwise physical problems. We use a multi-disciplinary approach to assist people in healing from traumas that may have impeded them from having a fulfilling sexual life and reaching their sexual potential.
Biography
Alex Katehakis is a licensed Marriage, Family Therapist, Certified Sex Addiction Therapist and Certified Sex Therapist in private practice in Los Angeles, CA. She has extensive experience in working with a full spectrum of sexuality from sexual addiction to problems of sexual desire and dysfunction for individuals and couples. Alex has successfully facilitated the recovery of many sexually addicted individuals and assisted couples in revitalizing their sex lives.
Ms. Katehakis was a staff clinician at the Sexual Recovery Institute, Los Angeles for eight years and served as Clinical Supervisor for three of those years. She has lectured for the Society for the Advancement for Sexual Health, the Rocky Mountain Association of Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity, LA-California Association of Marriage Family Therapists, Women's Association of Addiction Treatment, AIDS Project LA, and Pepperdine University. Alex has been a guest on national radio programs and live on-line shows such as VocieAmerica and WebMD as a sexual addiction expert. Alex teaches workshops on healthy sexuality in retreat settings and has been published in the Journal of Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity.
She is the Supervisory Consultant for the International Institute for Trauma and Addiction Professionals (IITAP) Certification program and is a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist (CSAT). She is a member of the Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health (SASH), certificated as a Sex Therapist (CST) by, and a member of the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT), member of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (AAMFT), and the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT).
