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Lori Hollander, MSW, MBA                               
--Licensed Couples and Sex Therapist
--Expert in resolving Intimacy, Sex, and Relationship problems
--Founder of The Center for Real Intimacy, PLLC

My Mission
To help you get the intimacy that you truly want from your relationship so that...
  • you feel more intimately connected to your partner
  • you feel more fulfilled and alive in your relationship

 

My objectives

Get you the kind of emotional and sexual intimacy that feels deeply fulfilling with the help of a structured program designed for you

      

How?

I will get you the tools, structure, and education you need to:

 

  •  Connect more deeply with each other

 

  •  Feel more deeply desired and loved by your partner

 

  •  Feel more attracted to your partner again

  •  Make sexual intimacy more enjoyable  

        and desirable for each of you

 

  •  Feel that you are your partner's first priority

 

  •  
    Share more similar levels of sexual desire 

 

  •  Get communication techniques that WORK...
  •  

                ...so that you feel close and calm, not distant or    

                angry, even when talking about difficult topics

     

  •  Create a plan that breeds intimacy rather than prevents it
     
  •  Feel more fulfilled in your relationship

  •  Feel more alive and connected during intimac

In the Media
 
Regularly interviewed in the media as expert Sex Therapist
   
  • Cosmopolitan Magazine, March 2009
  • Cosmopolitan Magazine,   October 2008
  • Cosmopolitan Magazine, September 2008
  • Real Detroit Weekly - The Dating Issue, Aug 2008
  • Cosmopolitan Magazine, August 2008
  • Cosmopolitan Magazine, July 2008                                     
  • Cosmopolitan Magazine, April 2008   
  • Mind, Body, and Soul, Dec/Jan 2007
  • NY Daily News, October  2007
 


Past Clinical Experience

    Staff Clinical Couples and Sex Therapist: University of Michigan Hospital, Sexual Health  
    Counseling Services.  Provided successful clinical treatment for women, men, and couples with   
    complaints of low sexual desire, sexual functioning difficulties, pain during intercourse, 
    relationship issues, trauma, sexual abuse, and low emotional and physical intimacy.

Clinical Training (both in Sex Therapy and Couples Therapy)
   SEX THERAPIST CLINICAL TRAINING
          Couples and Sex Therapist Intern: University of Michigan Hospital, Sexual Health 
        Full one year internship under sex therapist supervision 

          Sex Therapist Intern: Trained under internationally renown physician, Dr. Hope
        Haefner, University of Michigan Hospital working with women experiencing burning, vulvar pain, or
        painful sex from vaginitis, vaginismus, and vulvodynia to improve emotional and sexual intimacy.
  
  COUPLES THERAPIST CLINICAL TRAINING
          IMAGO Couples Therapist Training: Trained at the Washington DC Training Institute for
        Couples Therapy under Dr. Jette Simon, international couples therapy expert in IMAGO, a proven
        communication model that helps couples fight less and connect more.   
 

Education
  •    University of Michigan School of Social Work, MSW
  •   
    University of Michigan Business School (Ross), MBA
  •    Vassar College, Major in Women's Studies, BA

 
Co-authored Research Publications
Hollander LE, Freeman EW, Sammel MD, Berlin JA, Grisso JA, Battistini M.
Sleep quality, estradiol levels, and behavioral factors in late reproductive age women.

Obstetrics & Gynecology. 98(3):391-7, 2001 Sep.

• Freeman EW, Grisso JA, Berlin J, Sammel M, Garcia-Espana B, Hollander L.
Symptom reports from a cohort of African American and white women in the late reproductive years. Menopause. 8(1):33-42, 2001 Jan-Feb.

• Freeman EW, Sammel MD, Grisso JA, Battistini M, Garcia-Espana B, Hollander L. Hot flashes in the late reproductive years: risk factors for African American and Caucasian women. Journal of Women’s Health & Gender-Based Medicine. 10(1):67-76, 2001 Jan-Feb.

• Gracia CR, Sammel M, Liu L, Hollander L, Freeman EW. Decreased libido in women in the late reproductive years. Fertility and Sterility. Volume 78(3): S299: 2002 Sept.

• Battistini M, Freeman EW, Grisso JA, Sammel M, Hollander L, Garcia-Espana B. Pilot study of racial differences and longitudinal changes in inhibin B in the late reproductive years. Fertility & Sterility. 77(1):193-5, 2002 Jan.

• Sammel M, Grisso JA, Freeman EW, Hollander L, Liu L, Liu S, Nelson D, Battistini M. Weight Gain Among Women in the Late Reproductive Years. Family Practice 20(4), 2003.
Poster presentation:
Hollander L, Wade KM, “Impact of Sex Therapy on Medical Treatment of Vulvodynia” 5th International Conference on Social Work in Health and Mental Health, Hong Kong, China, Presented by Dr. Kathy Wade, December 2006.
 
Community Lectures
January 2008
   "Getting your Sexual Desire Back"
Click here for more lectures by Couples and Sex Therapist, Lori Hollander, MSW, MBA
 
Professional Memberships
• Member: AASECT (American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists)
• Member: NASW (National Association for Social Work)
 
As listed on Psychology Today
 
Office Locations
  • Downtown Ann Arbor, Michigan (across the street from the Maynard parking garage)
  • Pittsfield Township, Michigan (1 mile from Rt 94 and Rt 23 interchange)

Click here for location details 

 
Therapist Licensure
License: 6801087016 Michigan
 

                                                             Real Intimacy...                                     
                                       so you feel more cared for and fulfilled                                   
                                       and deeply connected to your partner
 


Lori Hollander, MSW
Licensed Sex Therapist and Couples Therapist
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Expertise in resolving Relationship, Sex, and Intimacy problems
Individual and Couples Therapist
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Licensed Couples Therapist & Sex Therapist  |  The Center for Real Intimacy, PLLC in Ann Arbor
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