Gina Ogden has had a distinguished career as a sex therapist, family therapist, researcher, teacher, and author.  She conducts retreats and training workshops internationally, lectures widely, leads teleseminars for professionals, and has appeared on the media from talk radio to the Oprah Winfrey Show.  She has written seven books on women's sexual health, pleasure, and the meanings of sexual relationship. Her most recent books are: The Return of Desire (2008), Women Who Love Sex (2007), and The Heart and Soul of Sex (2006).

She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she is researching her next book: The Best Is Yet To Come: Women Talk about Love, Sex, and Growing Older.  She is also collaborating on two more books: one on sexual archetypes, based on her workshops and another on sex therapy and couple therapy, based on her teleseminars.

As a sexologist, she has listened to thousands of women, men, and couples express stories that range from misinformation and abuse to ecstatic oneness, transcendence, and sacred marriage.  She has trained hundreds of physicians, nurses, social workers, family therapists, and other health providers to broaden their understanding of sexual experience beyond limiting notions of function and dysfunction.  Her groundbreaking survey, “Integrating Sexuality and Spirituality” (ISIS), is the first nationwide survey of human sexuality to investigate the multidimensional nature of sexual experience, and to generate the innovative ISIS model for exploring body, mind, heart, and spirit.

She is a licensed marriage and family therapist, a board-certified sex-therapy diplomate, and an associate professor of sexology at the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality.  She is a clinical member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) and an active member of many professional organizations including the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT) The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (SSSS) and the International Society for the Study Women’s Sexual Health (ISSWSH).  She is a regular presenter at scientific conferences, and a consulting editor for Contemporary Sexuality, the AASECT journal. She has served as a consultant for the three latest editions of Our Bodies, Ourselves and for the U.S. Surgeon General’s 2001 “Call to Action for Healthy Sexual Behavior.” She has contributed to consumer magazines such as Parade, Ms., Ladies Home Journal, Fitness, New Woman, and New Age, and to websites such as Prevention, Beliefnet, and Tantra.com. She has written numerous book chapters and journal articles. Her peer-reviewed paper on the ISIS survey, “Sexuality and Spirituality in Women’s Relationships,” is available from the Wellesley Centers for Research on Women (www.wcwonline.org).

Her PhD in sexology is from the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, her MA in family therapy is from Goddard College; her BA in English literature is from Smith College. She has been a Visiting Scholar at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women, and Harvard Divinity School's Center for the Study of World Religions. She has received grants for her work on sexuality and spirituality from Harvard Divinity School's Center for the Study of World Religions and from the Foundation for the Scientific Study of Sexuality.