Linda Weiner, MSW, LCSW, is the Owner of Sex Therapist St Louis, LLC and Sensate Focus Touch, LLC. Linda is a Certified Diplomate in Sex Therapy, a Supervisor in Sex Therapy & Sexuality Counseling and a CE provider for the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT). She earned a B.A. in Psychology from American University and an MSW from the University of Missouri. Linda was trained and employed at Masters & Johnson Institute and served as the Director of Training & Workshops, Director of the Child Sexual Abuse Treatment Program and as a Research and Clinical Associate. She evolved into private clinical practice as a therapist specializing in sexuality and relationships while serving as an Adjunct Professor at the Brown School, Washington University in St.
Louis. Linda later began publishing on Sensate Focus mindful and somatic touch techniques with co- author, Dr. Constance Avery-Clark. Following publication of a number of journal articles and a book chapter, their book, Sensate Focus in Sex Therapy: The Illustrated Manual was published in 2017. Linda has presented nationally and internationally and has been interviewed by a number of media outlets including The New York Times, CNN and VICE. Her current interest is in transmitting information about the use of Sensate Focus techniques to physicians and Allied Health Professionals who represent the first contact with people struggling with sexual problems.

Dr. Goldstein has been involved with sexual dysfunction research since the late 1970's. He has authored about 350 peer reviewed publications and multiple chapters, and edited 6 textbooks in the field. His interests include penile microvascular bypass surgery, surgery for dyspareunia, sexual health management post cancer treatment, genital dysesthesia/persistent genital arousal disorder, physiologic investigation of sexual function in men and women, and diagnosis and treatment of sexual dysfunction in men and women. Dr. Goldstein is Director of Sexual Medicine at Alvarado Hospital, Clinical Professor of Surgery at University of California, San Diego and practices medicine at San Diego Sexual Medicine. He is also Editor-in-Chief of Sexual Medicine Reviews and past Editor of The Journal of Sexual Medicine. He is a Past President of the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health and the Sexual Medicine Society of North America. He holds a degree in engineering from Brown University and received his medical degree from McGill University. The World Association for Sexual Health awarded the Gold Medal to Dr. Goldstein in 2009 in recognition of his lifelong contributions to the field, in 2012 he received the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health Award for Distinguished Service in Women’s Sexual Health, in 2013 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Sexual Medicine Society of North America, and in 2014 he received the ISSM Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for Sexual Medicine. He is happily married to his college sweetheart Sue, and together they have three children and five grandchildren.

Dr. James Pfaus is a basic preclinical researcher in behavioral neuroscience and neuroendocrinology with a focus on the neurobiology, neurochemistry, and molecular biology of sexual behavior. His research examines how the brain’s neurochemical and neuroanatomical systems are organized for sexual arousal, desire, pleasure, and inhibition. He is also interested in the role played by stimuli associated with sexual reward in priming sexual responses, and his research has revealed a strong epigenetic effect of experience with sexual pleasure on the crystallization of sexual attraction, preference, and performance. His laboratory has also played a major role in the preclinical development of drugs to treat sexual arousal and desire disorders. Research from his lab has been reported worldwide in the popular media and he has been interviewed for Time, Newsweek, Playboy, Scientific American, The Scientist, CBC, BBC, and ABC’s Nightline, and featured on the Discovery Channel’s Sex Files, Daily Planet, and The Nature of Things, along with several documentaries, including the joint HBO-BBC documentary “Middle Sex”.