Experience
Nancy Campbell Hanks, Ed.D., is a California licensed Marital & Family Therapist (#11747), who has maintained continuous licensure for 30+ years.
She is certified by the The American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists (www.aasect.org) as a Diplomate of Sex Therapy, and has been active as an AASECT Clinical Supervisor for 12 years. Nancy has consistently maintained a private practice while also being employed as a Clinical Supervisor for California State-sponsored, non-profit agencies, health care organization (e.g., Providence Portland Medical Center as a Gerontologist, 1994-1998), and multiple institutions of higher education as an Instructor and Adjunct faculty member. Nancy currently specializes in treating issues directly related to couple's and women's sexual and emotional health. As a therapist, she particularly enjoys working with a broad spectrum of individuals and couples who present with a diverse range of sexual problems, preferences, lifestyles and goals. She has assisted hundreds of women, men and couples in achieving their personal sexual goals and embracing a sex-positive attitude and life.
Education
Nancy received her original education in the field of human sexuality through an innovative training program sponsored by the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine (1976-1977). In 1985, she completed her doctoral degree (Ed.D.) and graduated from the University of San Francisco with a major in Counseling Psychology. Nancy has an M.S. in Counseling/Educational Psychology from the University of LaVerne (1975) and an M.A. in Women Studies from California StateUniversity, Chico (1975). In 1966, she graduated from the University of San Francisco with a B.A. major in Social Work. While residing in New York (1969-1971) she attended Columbia and Fordham universities to pursue her diverse interests in feminism, sexual medicine, health management and administration.
Professional Interests
Although Nancy supports community education and life-long learning for all, she now substantially limits her therapy, teaching and consulting activities. Her educational/counseling practice in Oregon is limited to approximately 15 hours per week; she practices and consults in California at her convenience. Nancy’s personal and professional commitments now focus on improving women’s access to sexual health education and counseling. As a professional who has personally "come of age," she has particular interest in sexuality and healthy aging; in research focused on peri- and post-menopausal women motivated to extend and preserve their sexual response and sensuality; in coaching pre- and non-orgasmic women in successful self-pleasuring techniques, and in supporting cancer survivors to recover and thrive.
Therapeutic Approach
Drawing on her extensive years of licensed professional experience, Nancy offers innovative, systemically-focused sexual therapy from a woman's unique perspective. From an academic perspective, she appreciates the contributions of research and evidence-based strategies in the fields of behavioral medicine, psychodynamic psychotherapy, and clinical sexology. These tools and techniques prove helpful to licensedprofessionals when applied to the treatment of a complex variety of problems impacting female, male and couple sexual fulfillment. Committed to being well informed, Nancy reads extensively across disciplines, and appreciates the contributions ofsystemic, cognitive/behavioral, and psychodynamic theorists. During her doctoral education she chose to commit her life to sexual and couple counseling, working creatively with diverse individuals who embrace distinct and varied sexual, cultural and ethic backgrounds. Her decades-long interest and advocacy in the political and economic aspects of female sexuality is an enduring interest and influences her approach to therapy.
Nancy’s approach is proactive and reality-focused. Her approach is structured, time-limited and cost-effective. In a warm and collaborative environment, your goals and prospective outcomes are defined. You are provided with the support, information and skills needed to become more sexually comfortable, expressive and self-empowered.