Brenda A. Lewis, LCSW, is a psychotherapist and sex therapist in private practice in New York City, where she has treated individuals and couples for over thirty years. Drawing on psychoanalytic psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, behavioral and cognitive therapies, systems theory and trauma resolution practices and all modalities, she works with a wide range of concerns including emotional intimacy challenges, sexual dysfunction, and complex relationship dynamics. Her clinical specialties include sex therapy for individuals and couples, marital and premarital work, multicultural and acculturation themes, fertility and assisted reproductive technologies, parenting in natural, adoptive, and blended families, and complex relational presentations. She has extensive experience addressing sexuality and intimacy in the context of anxiety and depressive disorders, affect regulation, physical health concerns, career setbacks, and crisis and all women's health issues. She also works with couples blending sexuality with relationship themes in a successful way. Brenda provides individual supervision to therapists at all levels, with a particular focus on sex therapy and intimacy issues in diverse cultural and religious communities, including Orthodox and other ultra-religious environments, Asian American, Hispanic, African American, LGBTQ, and immigrant populations. She also teaches and supervises Chinese psychoanalytic graduate students through the China American Psychoanalytic Alliance (CAPA), and has offered LGBTQ-affirmative therapy seminars for PhD psychology externs at New York University. Her education includes advanced psychoanalytic training and case presentation with Professor Martin Bergmann, fellowship training at the Greenwich Institute for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, and is an LCSW. She is the author of ABCs of Dating: A Guide to Love and Dating for the Openhearted, and has led numerous public workshops and ongoing groups on dating, sexuality, and relationships. Brenda is an active member of AASECT, NASW, CAPA, the American Psychoanalytic Association, the American Psychological Association, and multiple regional psychoanalytic and clinical social work societies, reflecting her commitment to integrative, contemporary, and ethically grounded sex therapy practice and education enhancing the lives of all her clients.

"Therapy is the bridge between your past and a more fulfilling future. I explore how your history and sense of self shape your intimate life, through active strategies, structured exercises, and guided conversation designed to reduce shame and promote exploration. My aim is to bring love and sex under one umbrella, so emotional and erotic connection reinforce one another."