Dr. Orion is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (MFC51696) with a PhD in humanistic psychology. She is certified by the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists as a Sex Therapist (#1194230). She has been working with individual adults, partners, teens and families since 2000, including those in alternative relationship and family formats. She has conducted studies on low desire/low-sex marriage, polyamory, and on Vaginismus (sexual pain, with Peter Pacik, MD). She is the author of A therapists handbook to nontraditional relationships: Consensual nonmonogamy, polyamory, and more (Routledge/Taylor and Francis) slated for publication in 2017. She specializes in: low/high desire, low sex marriage, painful sex, past abuse, erectile dysfunction/rapid ejaculation, problems with orgasm, sex/internet/porn “addiction,” sexual orientation issues, and alternative family styles. She uses a holistic approach combining cognitive behavioral therapies, mindfulness, teaching/coaching, scientific data, and tools specific to sex therapy, in a supportive and healing environment.