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To end the silence around sexuality, disability, and chronic conditions.

Chronic illness or injury doesn’t have to destroy your intimate life. As a Sexuality Educator and Counselor living with spinal cord injury, I’m here to serve individuals who are struggling to understand sexual response and expression post-injury or illness.

Having a disability doesn’t make you asexual. Erotic thoughts, desires, and fantasies are normal. And you can still gain satisfaction from those triggers. Despite what you may have heard, it’s possible to tap into your sexual pleasure post-injury or illness. If you are ready to explore new and exciting ways to reclaim your sexual life, I invite you to contact me to schedule a complimentary 15-minute Discovery Session.
Together, we’ll discuss where you are and determine the steps you need to take to reach your intimacy goals.

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Discover How To Tap Into Your Sexual Potential

Speaking

Invite me to guide you in discovering what they didn’t teach you about sexual response and pleasure in school, the relationship between mental health, physical health, and sexual health, and how to maintain healthy sexual relationships through practical application of intimate relationship skills, along with many other topics!

Professional Education and Training

Invite me to work with your staff to develop tailored continuing education programs to meet your specific objectives. I have worked with leading universities, medical schools, national associations, and major rehabilitation hospitals across the country and around the world.

Consumer Education

I strive to close the intimacy gap in rehabilitation by teaching your patients or members about changes in relationships and intimacy associated with their condition, promoting self-esteem and positive interpersonal skills, and developing knowledge and healthy practices necessary to ensure sexual and reproductive health.

Consulting

I offer focused, professional services to hospitals, corporations, academic institutions, and nonprofit organizations. My consultations are centered on ameliorating the impact of disability, chronic conditions and aging on sexual health in order to improve the patient/customer experience and health outcomes.

Sex and Paralysis Video Series

Visit our Sex and Paralysis Video Page for tips on Accessible Tantra and examples of sex positions for men and women with SCI. Call today to learn more at 203-257-1985.

Regain That Feeling

My new book, Regain That Feeling: Secrets to Sexual Self-Discovery, is now available! Through sharing my own story of sexual self-discovery after breaking my neck at age 20, and the stories of research participants and coaching clients, I reveal the secrets that will guide you back to feeling whole and fully alive again.

Love After War

Love After War: Saving Love, Saving Lives offers realistic hope for active duty service members and veterans who have returned home with physical and/or psychological health challenges that are creating difficulties in their intimate lives.

Sexual Health Network

The Sexual Health Network, Inc. is an Internet publishing and broadcasting company dedicated to providing easy access to information, education, counseling, specialized products, and other resources for people with disabilities, chronic conditions, or natural changes throughout the lifecycle and those who love them or care for them.

My new book, Regain that Feeling, has just been released!

Dr. Tepper's "Regain that Feeling: Sexual Healing after Injury or Illness" Interview

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Facilitated Sex for People with Disabilities

Facilitated Sex: The Next Frontier in Sexuality and Disability?

Gerrad and Laurie (not real names but real people) developed an online relationship over a two-year period. Casual turned intimate, and intimate hot. After 24 months of mounting passion, they decided it was time to cross the digital divide and meet flesh-to-flesh. Their plan was to consummate their relationship in person. After great anticipation, their dream of being together in the biblical sense was thwarted by the realities of their disabilities. Gerrad has a neuromuscular disease resulting in overall physical weakness. Laurie has quadriplegia. While she had enough biceps strength to help Gerrad get on top--the only position he can thrust from--they weren't able to position their body parts for intercourse. Gerrad and Laurie came to me for advice. They were both aware that good sex and strong intimacy can happen in the absence of vaginal intercourse, and had explored other options for sexual expression. Recognizing that simple touch and closeness satisfies many people, they were still intent on having intercourse. After brainstorming about different positions and assistive devices, we talked about asking a personal care assistant (PCA) to help.

The Battle for Love

Tantric Sex: A Different Perspective

Sexploitation, Adult Entertainment, and the Super Bowl

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Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience with us. I look forward to bringing my new learning to my work with wounded warriors.

Glenn W. Parkinson, LICSW, Traumatic Brain Injury Service
Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

We are eternally grateful for your williness to share your experiences and expertise! Looking forward to continued work in the future.

CDR Moira G. McGuire, Program Manager, Warrior Clinic
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

What a real pleasure working with you. I will work with you any day again! Thank you for your patience and willingness to consider all my requests. I am so happy I found you to take our initiative to a whole different level.

Anna Amour Ross, LCDR NC USN
Dual Board Certified PMHNP/CNS-BC Walter Reed - Bethesda

Dr. Tepper's presentation effectively confronted me with my own assumptions and broadened my comfort level with the topic while conveying valuable information.  This was fantastic!  Thank you!

Workshop Participant
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

Dr. Tepper has not only a remarkable form of knowledge, but also a skill in communicating it with a sense of humor and compassion.

Workshop Participant
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

Dr. Tepper is an exceptional, well-reserved experienced public speaker in the area of sexual health. He provides wonderful and prompt customer service. I will work with him any day.

Workshop Participant and Planning Committee Member
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

I am so delighted to have met Dr. Tepper. He has opened my mind on so many issues related to sex that I have never thought about. I can't wait to incorporate my learning into my practice.

Workshop Participant
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

Extremely valuable content whether you are wounded, ill, or injured…or not!  Normalizes and Destigmatizes the subject matter, enabling honest, open discourse and education. We can talk about what everyone is thinking about! Sexual health and intimacy are activities of daily living. We all deserve to benefit from knowledge his workshop provides.

Workshop Participant
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

Relevant & direct impact on patient care... one of the few trainings that really improved my practice.

Workshop Participant
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

Sex was important before my injury and I hope to continue to let it be. Thanks for the information.

Workshop Participant
NSCIA Connecticut Chapter

I and my husband were prompted to continue the discussion after the picnic, focusing on our lives and our happiness.

Workshop Participant
NSCIA Connecticut Chapter

It was as if he knew what I needed to talk to my girlfriend about but was putting off.

Workshop Participant
NSCIA Connecticut Chapter

Despite having a physical handicap, Dr. Tepper never let anything stand in his way, from his academic pursuits to his social and personal goals. When I sat down to talk to Dr. Tepper it became clear that he faced life with a sense of humor and amusement. The style of coaching he exemplified was not only of empathy and care but he also managed to combine it with a smile or a joke. Dr. Tepper is an individual that truly understands and appreciates life, and he has the mental tools and personality to help us all to overcome the obstacles of our ever so complex lives.

Coaching Client

Dr. Tepper's spirited and open discussion helped to make this year's picnic one of our most successful and well attended ever! Certainly, the topic of sex helped and we were fortunate to have such an eloquent and well-known speaker... Dr. Tepper certainly showed our group how best to share information on an often-difficult subject to broach. We are very grateful for his knowledge, charisma, and willingness to have shared that with our group.

Bill Mancini
President, National Spinal Cord Injury Association, Connecticut Chapter

Dr. Tepper's presentation on a topic many consider delicate was done in a way that normalized concerns held by many when discussing intimacy, and immediately placed everyone attending at ease.  His teaching and presentation style was engaging, and he elicited maximum participation while also respecting individuals' personal boundaries. His use of humor and personal stories, as well as a frank presentation style, encouraged participants to shed discomfort, and to apply new knowledge and skills in facilitating discussion of intimacy problems and creative solutions with those we serve.

Mary G. Brownsberger, Psy.D. ABPP
Director of Psychology, Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Hospital

Dr. Tepper showed me how to be aware of some very important emotional states and the impact they have on me and other people. He also worked with me to improve my presentation skills in real life and online as well. Perhaps the most significant thing for me was to get down-to-the-point advice in certain situations, which Dr. Tepper helped me with ease with his understanding of the special needs that people with disabilities have. I can’t thank him enough and I consider myself one of a few people who had the luck to work with him.

M. I., PhD
Coaching Client