Our Instructors

Our Instructors

Stephen Duclos | LMFT, LMHC, CRC, CST-S (he/him)

Stephen Duclos has been working as a family therapist, mental health counselor, and rehabilitation counselor since 1972. He currently holds licenses and national certifications in family therapy, mental health counseling, rehabilitation counseling (CRC), and sex therapy (CST). Long a supervisor of other therapists in these fields, Mr. Duclos is on the faculty of the University of Massachusetts at Boston. In 2012, he and Jessica Price, LICSW, also part of the South Shore Family Health Collaborative, won the Patricia Schiller Prize for their work on Fathers, Adolescent Daughters, and Sexuality. He is vitally interested in father involvement, the unique human development of men, sexuality and relationships, the effectiveness of co-therapy in psychotherapy, the relational development of couples in long-term relationships, and training therapists.

Stephanie Wallace-Light | LMFT, CST (she/her)

Stephanie values diversity and equality, and her work includes accepting and affirming the identities of clients across spectrums of ability, sexuality, gender, race, ethnicity, and religion. She strives to have conversations with clients that explore societal messages that may be impacting their choices and perspectives, and hopes that such conversations will leave her clients feeling more free to live the lives they want, rather than the lives expected of them.

She believes the therapy room is not a place of judgment, but a space for curiosity, both for herself and her clients. Through this process, clients are encouraged to make conscious choices about what kinds of relationships they want to have with themselves, each other, and the world, and to build confidence in their ability to make decisions and live more positively.

In her free time, Stephanie enjoys reading, acting, and singing.

Mary-Ellen Meltzer | PMHCNS-BC, CST-S (she/her

Mary-Ellen’s primary areas of clinical interest are working with couples and individuals in the LGBTQIA + community, particularly around issues of sexual health and desire. She is LGBTQIA + welcoming and affirming as well as kink aware and welcoming. Mary-Ellen works with folks in polyamorous and consensually non-monogamous relationships. She also prescribes psychiatric medications for adults and adolescents presenting with various mental health concerns. In addition to her clinical responsibilities, she also teaches undergraduate nursing students at the University of Massachusetts Boston, Donna and Robert Manning College of Nursing and Health Sciences.

Lauren Drean | MS, LMFT (she/her)

Lauren’s clinical practice treats individuals, couples and families using Emotionally Focused Therapy, Sex Therapy, Internal Family Systems, Narrative Therapy and Experiential Therapy. She has been working with families for 15 years and emphasizes in her courses that sexuality is not developed in a vacuum.

Using personal, clinical and educational experience she brings humor and experiential techniques to her teaching.

Areas of special interest include, relational sexuality, developmental stages, religion, spirituality, play, and treating anxiety.

Duewa 'Kaya' Spicer | MSW, LCSW, LICSW, CCATP, CST (they/she)

Kaya is Licensed Clincial Social Worker, an AASECT certified sex therapist and Mindful Intimacy And Relationship Coach. They received her Master's of Social Work from the University of Southern California. Kaya is a queer nonbinary holistic psychotherapist that believes sex positive sex therapy begins with decolonizing our heteronormative patriachal values and beliefs on sexuality and gender.
Special Interests: Ethically non-monogamous relationships, folks new to ethical non-monogamy, poly break-ups,LGBTQ issues, QTBIPoC sexuality and gender issues and multicultural relationships, intimacy and sexuality, sacred sexuality healing practices.

Jeremiah Gibson | LMFT, CST (he/him)

Jeremiah Gibson is a licensed marriage and family therapist, an AASECT certified Sex Therapist,  and a graduate of the AASECT Certificate Program of South Shore Sexual Health. His specialties include working with couples and individuals with differing levels of sexual desire, challenges with erectile dysfunction and sexual pain, relationships that have been affected by substance use, and folks who want to incorporate kink into their sexuality. 

Jeremiah is a member of the Incarnational Institute of Sex and Faith, and has a specific interest in bringing sex positivity to religious couples and organizations through couples therapy and professional presentations.

Jordon Anderson | LICSW, CST (they/them)

Jordon Anderson, LICSW, CST (they/them) is a neurospicy, visibly trans, chronic-illness impacted, white-idenitifed individual. They work as a relational therapist and certified sex therapist. They are a published poet and lover of the often overlooked world around us. They are a lifelong student of relationships and practice liberation work.

Jordon is a contributing author in both Trans Sex and Overcoming Anxiety in Sex and Relationships

Jane Fleishman | PhD, MEd, MS, CSE (she/her)

Jane Fleishman, PhD, MEd, MS, is a writer, award-winning educator, sexuality researcher, and AASECT Certified Sexuality Educator. She earned her M.Ed. and Ph.D. at Widener University Center for Human Sexuality Studies. She is on a mission to promote the sexual wellness in older adults and doesn’t shy away from the difficult and complex realities of making that happen. She focuses on the contradictions around ageism, sexism, racism, ableism, and all the other ways that people get placed on the margins. Her curious nature led to her latest accomplishment, The Stonewall Generation: LGBTQ Elders on Sex, Activism, and Aging which recently won a coveted Nautilus Book Award. She co-hosts a regular podcast on sex about sex in the second half of life, which she calls Our Better Half. And she recently completed a popular TEDx talk, Is It OK for Grandma to Have Sex? She is the proud mother of two really fabulous 20-somethings and lives in Northampton, MA.

Lucie Fielding | PhD, LPC, LMHC (she/they)

In addition to their work as a therapist, they are also a sexuality educator. They have had the pleasure and privilege of facilitating workshops in numerous settings, including professional conferences, sex therapy education programs, and community-facing workshops. Finally, they are the author of the book Trans Sex: Nurturing Trans Erotic Embodiment and Gender-Pleasure (Routledge, 2025). For more on these aspects of my professional life, see the Speaking, Media, and Book pages of this website.

Paula Leech | LMFT, CST-S (she/her)

Paula teaches the following core knowledge courses: Sexual Trauma, Pregnancy and Sexuality, Learning Theory, Sexual Compulsivity, Intimacy, Sex and Couples Therapy