It’s Complicated! The Many Pathways to PSB (2 CE hours)

Learning Objectives:

• Distinguish between PSB as a symptom, PSB as the problem itself
• Identify the many casual factors that can lead to sexual behaviour being identified as problematic
• In the case of couples, differntiate between a parnter’s perception of PSB as a problem, and the client’s experience of PSB

Speaker Bio:

Before Dr. Winters became a clinical psychologist, he was a researcher. He received his PhD in psychology from the University of British Columbia in 2008; his research focused on various aspects of sex and sexuality.

During and after completing graduate school, Dr. Winters worked as a researcher with the Forensic Psychiatric Services Commission. While he could have happily pursued a very fulfilling career doing research, he realized that he wanted to help people in a much more direct way.

Dr. Winters began his clinical training at the Mood Disorders Centre of Excellence and BC Psychosis Program, two inpatient units located at the UBC hospital. As a post-doctoral fellow in clinical psychology, he worked with patients suffering from severe mental illness, including schizophrenia, anxiety, depression, personality disorders, bipolar disorder, and substance abuse. His experience provided a rock solid foundation in doing assessment and treatment with very complex, difficult, and diverse cases. Dr. Winters loved the work and continues to see a handful of similar types of clients in private practice, despite sex therapy clients making up the vast majority of his current roster.

Dr. Winters received extensive and specialized training in sexual disorders and dysfunction at the BC Centre for Sexual Medicine and in the UBC Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. He honed his skills working along side psychiatrists, gynecologists, general practitioners, and psychologists with a wide variety of patients with many different types of disorders and problems. Sexual disorders and problems are his specialty.

In the fall of 2018, Dr. Carolin Klein and Dr. Winters opened the West Coast Centre for Sex Therapy. Their goal was to create something more meaningful than their individual practices.

In addition to his work as a clinician in private practice, Dr. Winters taught human sexuality in the Department of Psychology at UBC for ten years, where he won teaching awards and received glowing reviews from his students.

He is a member of the Society for Sex Therapy and Research, and also is a consultant to the media and regularly sits on sexual health panels as a guest expert.