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 “America’s sex therapist” and relationship expert Ian Kerner, Ph.D. is the New York Times best-selling author of numerous books including: She Comes First; Passionista; Be Honest, You're Not That Into Him Either and D.S.I. Date Scene Investigation. His most recent book, Sex Detox, will be out in paperback soon and a new hardcover on sex and parenting entitled Love in the Time of Colic will be hitting bookstores in January. All of Ian’s books have been published by Harper Collins.
Ian's journey to counseling professionally grew out of his own personal battle with sexual dysfunction and his desire to help others. With so many relationships often disintegrating within the first five years of marriage or cohabitation, Ian frequently works with young couples in their twenties and thirties to address issues that are common to the "American bedroom" but nonetheless lead to lives of quiet desperation. To learn more about these issues and why Ian cares so much about them, as well as his approach to treating them, please visit the Counseling page.
Ian appears regularly on the Today Show and writes a bi-weekly health column for their website entitled Sex RX. He contributes regularly to Cosmopolitan Magazine, as well as penning Cosmo's online sex-advice column. Additionally, Ian has been read in the pages of Men's Health, O Magazine, Maxim, Details, Parenting, Redbook and the New York Times to name a few. To view video-clips of some of Ian's recent media appearances, please visit the TV page.
In addition to meeting regularly with patients, Ian lectures nationally on a variety of subjects related to sex and relationships. Recent appearances have included: The Organization of Women Leaders at Princeton University, human sexuality classes at Indiana University, the W Hotel's Wonderland Series, the 92nd Street Y in New York City, Sex Week at Yale University, as well as the Psychology Honors Society at New York University. He was recently named a “Friend for Life” by Mother’s Voices, a national non-profit organization that conducts programs that give parents the skills they need to communicate with their children about sexual health and HIV/STD prevention.
Ian is certified to counsel patients by the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) and is a Diplomate in Sex Therapy of the American Board of Sexology. Ian is also a member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, the International Society for the Study of Women's Sexual Health and The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (SSIS). To ask Ian a sex and relationships question, visit the Ask Ian page.
Ian is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brandeis University, and also holds advanced degrees from New York University and the American Academy of Clinical Sexologists. Ian is a former Thomas J. Watson Fellow and a recipient of the Erwin J. Haberle Award in Clinical Sexology.
Ian was born and raised in New York City where he resides with his wife, Lisa Rubisch, a commercial and music video director and their sons, Owen and Beckett. To contact Ian, visit the Contact page.
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