Certified Practitioners

Dr. Alexandra Milspaw holds a Ph.D. in Human Sexuality. She is a AASECT-Certified Sex Therapist and licensed professional counselor in the state of Pennsylvania.

She currently serves as the Director of Behavioral Health Services for Pelvic Rehabilitation Medicine (PRM). PRM is a physiatry medical clinic specializing in the treatment of chronic pelvic and sexual pain disorders.

Dr. Milspaw specializes in the treatment of trauma, chronic pelvic and sexual pain, and sexual health. To join her virtual groups and workshops focused on healing and retraining the brain, visit pelvicrehabilitation.com.

Dr. Milspaw also serves on the Board of the International Pelvic Pain Society (IPPS) and is the Director of the Clinical Foundations Training Course for the IPPS.

4-D Specialties: Sex Therapy with Teens, Adults, and Couples, Sex therapy supervision

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“I love using the 4-D Wheel in therapy and supervision. I frequently find there are new experiences, education, and deeper understanding that comes from working in the wheel. I’ve seen time and time again feeling “stuck” and seeing movement begin as we step into the wheel.”

Catherine de Sauvage was born in Belgium and graduated as a teacher in languages (English & Dutch). When she moved to San Francisco, she became a licensed marriage family therapist (2008) and later a certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (2016) – Peter Levine’s method.

She first specialized in working with adolescents acting out while also co-facilitating Spanish-speaking groups with perpetrators of domestic violence. Her interest in a population constantly living in survival mode motivated her to work with incarcerated people in Redwood City, CA. She soon learned to navigate substance abuse & trauma.

Her exposure to jail populations helped her understand that sexual trauma is often at the source of substance abuse and crimes. Her goal now is to help less privileged people free themselves from sexual trauma. She works at Catherine’s Center’s project in San Mateo County, CA in order to introduce sexuality & the 4 D-Wheel to women living in group homes (after being released from jail).

She is certified as a sex therapist. She believes that reconnecting to our true instinct in our body can help us heal ourselves and feel alive again.

4-D Specialties: Working with women recovering from jail, sexual traumas and addiction to rebuild safety. Working with sex workers to de-shame their work & re-connect with their healing process. Working with couples to help each partner individuate & find their true voice. Working with women coming out & women trying to reconnect with their desire.

The wheel is powerful because it honors this principle: “Don’t teach, give them an experience”

4D speciality: sexuality and pleasure and past pain. Why I love it: its experiential and embodied.

Dr. Elliott Kronenfeld holds a Ph.D. in Human Sexuality and he is a certified sex therapist and supervisor. He is also a TEDx speaker, educator, and sought after public speaker. His book, Couples by Intention, is a best seller.

4-D Specialties:

Infertility, infidelity recovery, and intimacy skills. I use the wheel in a variety of ways. I love that there is no one right way to use it. Sometimes, I draw it on my white board and use it to bring perspectives to a client in how we might approach our work. Sometimes, I put my wheel on the floor and we walk through it. Sometimes, I use my rocks (I have rocks with “Spiritual” “Mental” “Emotional” “Physical” painted on them) and I let clients hold them when they are working through their story. I also use the wheel in clinical supervision as I train other therapists to reach clients in creative ways.

I encourage other 4-D practitioners to continue to learn about the many ways to use the wheel and how to adapt it for short and longer term work with clients!

4-D Specialties:

My area of specialty with 4-D is facilitating wheels for individuals, couples, and groups using movement/ body-centered modalities, religious/spiritual rituals, and archetypal processes. Two of my most favorite 4-D offerings are 5-month groups for women and day-long workshops for men.

4-D is magical, ethereal, and beyond words; no two are ever alike because once one steps into the wheel, who we are shifts and unfolds from moment to moment. It is the most effective way to heal for all participants.

Licensed Marriage Family Therapist, AASECT Certified Sex Therapist, AASECT Certified Sex Therapy Supervisor, Director of 4-D Network

I am a psychotherapist with an expertise in sex, marriage, and intimacy issues. In my private practice, I use a tailored approach to help individuals, couples, and families identify problems and their causes. I also supervise therapists and clinicians to become certified as world-recognized AASECT Certified Sex Therapists and am the director of programming, trainer and supervisor for the 4-D Network.

I have a Masters degree in Clinical Psychology, and I am a Licensed Marriage Family Therapist. I am a Diplomate of American Association of Certified Sexologists and a Certified Sex Therapist through the America Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapist.

Kristin Hodson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist – and she’s determined to make it easier for all of us to talk about sex, no matter where we started from. She is a mom to three wild things and a partner to her husband, Jake. They live in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Playa Grande, Costa Rica.

A light sense of humor for tricky conversations: Kristin’s approachable personality helps break sexuality into easily digestible pieces that empower people to develop their sexual identity, hone sexual values, and improve communication.

I offer e-courses that promote emotional wellness in a series called Reboot. The first course, Resilience: You Are Not Alone, is now available through my website. I offer Wheel work for individuals and couples, as well as for groups of women. I also offer training groups to prepare other clinicians to utilize the Wheel.

4-D Specialty:
I specialize in using the Wheel individually with women who are ready to let go of old limiting patterns and step into their full authentic emotional, sensual, and creative freedom.

The Wheel promotes rapid release and transformational growth. It invites in movement, magic, truth and freedom, allowing participants to step into vibrant versions of themselves that have felt out of reach.

I am a Certified 4-D Wheel Practitioner & Lifetime member of the 4-D Network. I am also an Administrator & Collaborative Editor of the Forum (The Kamara Sutra).

The 4-D Wheel, in all its wonder, helps adult clients feel safe now so that they can appropriately address childhood wounds. I love the 4-D Wheel because of its rich and deep history; in those roots I connect with practitioners without the constraint of time or place.

I am a Sex Educator, Certified Sex Coach and Somatic Sex Educator In Training (I have recently completed the curriculum for Sexological Bodywork). My first years as a Sex Coach (certified in 2016) were focused on being a “general practitioner.” Recently, in my clinical sexology work, I have decided to focus on (and specialise in) pelvic pain, trauma and racialised trauma (healing and decolonisation in the BIPOC community).

I find that the Wheel is such a powerful tool and I’m looking forward to being able to use it not only in clinical work, but as a tool in my sex education classes and sessions. I am also excited to use it in retreats or online “bootcamp” events, to help couples communicate better and heal around sex and relationship issues.

Lover of black tea, honesty, and the Colorado mountains she calls home. Shannon Santangelo is a Social Worker turned Women’s Group Facilitator, Certified Lumia Coach accredited by the International Coaching Federation and a Certified Trauma-Informed Leader.

As a challenger to the status quo and advocate for change, Shannon is on a mission to help women reconnect with their inner voice through reconnecting with one another.

Shannon’s values are rooted in: Simplicity, Gratitude, Connection, Integrity & Uniqueness. You can find Shannon facilitating a group in the great outdoors, supporting women one-on-one within her coaching practice + retreat space, or kayaking with her husband + 2 dogs among the pines.

I currently teach and do clinical supervision using the 4-Dimensional Wheel that Gina so generously shared, combining it with many decades of listening to client’s stories and witnessing their way towards healing.

As a midwife I have a touch license and use the 4-D wheel with clients before their guided vaginal examination. I have also previously worked in cancer rehab and with clients experiencing low sexual energy.

As a team we can learn from one another, strengthen each other, and bring energy to the whole network. The world is waiting for us to teach the Four Dimensional Wheel of Sexual Experience—Gina’s legacy! You are a part of a fantastic and important team!

Lyndsey is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a Certified Sex Therapist with a small private practice in South Minneapolis in Minnesota.

She specializes in relationships and sexuality utilizing the Enneagram in conjunction with the 4-D model of Sexuality. She also presents and provides workshops around these topics. She uses the quadrants of the 4-D wheel with the Enneagram Type to help clients determine and understand their life and sexual story.

This includes celebrating the places they excel and working on becoming aware and changing the areas of struggle. The role of the 4-D model on a client’s life in relationship to their enneagram type has been life changing for the clients in her office.

I use the 4-D wheel in my clinical work and in my coaching practice. A significant portion of my work is working with the intrapsychic messages people have around their bodies – especially larger shapes/sizes, religious/spiritual disconnect, intersectional cultural identities, traumatic loss for African Americans – all within the context of how these can disconnect us from intimate-sexual vitality and comfort.

My niche as a bariatric specialist often threads many of these elements within the stories of the women I support – their bodies becoming the currency for how they are able to operate in the world and how that impacts the ability to authentically be themselves in every facet – including sexually.

Too often we rely on the “rules” and ways of being – our survival mechanisms which are learned from family, culture, significant (and sometimes traumatic) life events. While it makes *perfect* sense to continue using our survival mechanisms based on our survival stories, these often disconnect us from our desires by creating contention in our everyday lives – particularly our relationship with ourselves. With the support of the 4-D wheel, I hold the container to allow people to allow the parts they work so hard to hide, suppress, conform and even deny the time and space to be witnessed and *properly* attuned to – with the utmost care and compassion.

My work is highly integrative and I utilize the 4-D when in conjunction with ego state therapy/parts work, attachment insights, emotion focused therapy, expressive therapy techniques (ie: sand tray, drawing, coloring, journaling, etc) in addition to relevant concepts that I pull from different forms of Yoga/Eastern Thought including Tantra, Kundalini Yoga, Hatha Yoga and (African) Diasporic Inspired Practices.

I hold a Bachelor of Applied Science (BSc) in Behavioral Science from Stockholm University in Sweden and work at Aleah Care as a co-founder, educator and sex counselor. Aleah Care is a Swedish company who develops rehabilitation products for sexual health and wellbeing. For more info visit www.aleahcare.com

4-D Specialties:

Counseling with client who wish to regain their sexual wellbeing after or during a health issue. Implementing the 4-D perspective in lectures, education and material for patients and healthcare professionals in Sweden.

For over a decade I have been giving counseling to clients of all ages and gender. It has been a privilege to have witnessed the start of their sexual journey.

My belief since the first time I heard of 4-D is that it holds a key for so many individuals no matter what background. It is a place of healing and curiosity for sexual health and wellbeing through life.

Michelle Wilde is a mental health counselor and coach specializing in sexuality and trauma release through somatic and integrative modalities.

She is also a massage therapist, allowing for hands-on release of tension patterns in the body created by psychological defense mechanisms in early life.

She uses EMDR, Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises (R), The Arvigo Techniques of Mayan Abdominal Therapy (R) and herbal traditions to help people regain their aliveness, relationships and peace.