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“Alex” Caroline Robboy
Independence Place
233 S. 6th Street
Suite C-33
Philadelphia, PA 19106
Work Number: (215) 922-LOVE
Cell Number: (215) 570-8614
alex@howtohavegoodsex.com
EDUCATION
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
M.S.W. Masters of
Social Work - Clinical Family Track, Dept of Social Work,
(May/95)
Post-Masters Certificate
- Home School Visitor/School Social Worker in PA,
NJ & MA, Dept of Social Work (May/95)
Post-Masters Certificate - Marriage Counseling & Sex Therapy, Dept of
Psychiatry, (July/1999)
C.A.S. Certificate in Advanced Studies - Human Sexuality, Dept of Education,
(Dec,02)
Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR
BA - Bachelor of Arts - Major in English; minor in Gender Studies, (Jun/93)
SCHOLARSHIPS
Council for Relationships (Formerly known as Penn Council For
Relationships), Dept of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Council for
Relationships Scholarship, (Fall/97-Spring/99)
PROFESSIONAL CLINICAL EXPERIENCE
The Center For Growth Inc, Philadelphia, PA (Jun/05 – Present)
CEO – The Center for Growth is a company of three people. In addition to
overseeing the management of the company, I provide individual, couple, family
therapy and support groups. My specialty is sex therapy, marriage counseling and
pregnancy related issues.
How To Have Good Sex Inc, Philadelphia, PA (Sept/97-Present)
CEO - HTHGS is
primarily a web based organization dedicated to teaching human sexuality
education. Currently there are four sexperts who field sex related questions.
Responsible for developing the curriculum from which to teach the human
sexuality teleconference and chat courses. Design and produce the monthly sex
tips. Currently the monthly sex tips are distributed to 32,000+ people and the
web site receives 8000+ unique hits a day.
Life Counseling, Philadelphia PA (Feb/02-May/05)
Therapist
– Provided individual, couple and family therapy. Specialization is in sexual
health and pain management. Supervisor for two MSW interns.
Best Nest Inc, Philadelphia, PA (Jul/00–Feb/02)
Home Finder Social Worker & Lead Internet Specialist –
Best Nest is an adoption and foster care agency for medically fragile children.
Responsibilities included designing and maintaining the website, recruitment,
providing training to adoptive and foster parents (pre-service and on an ongoing
basis), comprehensive home study of prospective adoptive and foster parents,
assisting in child placement decisions and providing sexuality education to both
the staff and clients at the agency.
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (Jan/99-May/99 & Jan/00-May/00)
Teaching Assistant –
to the course ‘Basic Concepts in Human Sexuality’. Responsible for designing
and implementing lesson plans, grading and running my own section of the course.
Penn Council For Relationships, Philadelphia, PA (Sept/96-Jul/99)
Therapist
– provided individual, couple and family therapy. Specialization is in sex
therapy.
Protocall Services/Metro Crisis
Line, Portland, OR (Oct/95-Jul/96)
Clinical Specialist 2 - trained, supervised and acted as a resource to Metro
Crisis Line volunteers. Conducted
telephone intakes / assessments, crisis response, and dispatched the
local law and/or medical personnel as necessary, triaged services for companies
nationwide. Protocall provided direct services to over 50 million people,
including persons with a chronic mental illness, substance abuse problem and
those with current homicidal and suicidal ideations.
CARES NW (Child Abuse Response and Evaluation Services) Program, Portland,
OR (May/95-Oct/95)
Child Abuse Intake Specialist - evaluated and determined eligibility of incoming callers
wishing to schedule a CARES appointment and/or provided the client(s) with
appropriate referrals to community services.
INTERNSHIPS & VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE
School Social Worker Intern
-
Collingswood Board of Education, (Sept/94-May/95)
Drug & Alcohol Counselor Intern -
Eagleville Hospital, (May/95-Aug/95)
Emergency Shelter Social Worker Intern -
Child Inc., (Sept/93-Jun/94)
Crisis Intervention Counselor - Portland Women's Crisis Line (PWCL),
(Sept/92-Aug/95)
Volunteer Facilitator of a Support Group for Survivors of Rape - PWCL,
(Jan/93-Apr/93)
Founded a Women's Consciousness Raising Support Group -
Lewis & Clark College, (Sept/92-Jun/93)
Revitalized the Group Student’s United for Sexual Awareness -
Lewis & Clark College, (Jan/93-Jun/93)
Researcher on the abuse of prostitutes - Council For Prostitution
Alternatives, (Jun/92-Aug/92)
SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS & PUBLICATIONS
-
Date to be announced, Ivanhoe Broadcast News - Medical Breakthroughs and Consumer News for Women
NBC 10, News
at 11pm with reporter Kristen Welker, Philadelphia, PA (February 7/08)
* Where Couples Are Turning When Monogamy Becomes Monotony
Montel Williams New York City, NY
(January 25/08)
* Asked by Montel Williams to help a couple "Bring Sexy Back Into Their
Marriage"
The Center For Growth, Inc., Philadelphia PA (Aug/05 – Present)
*Monthly
workshops on sex and pregnancy.
How To Have Good Sex, Inc., Philadelphia PA (Jan/99 – present)
*Monthly 3 hour
workshops on intimacy and communication issues.
*Bachelorette parties: How to be the best lover your partner ever had, and
receive the pleasure you’ve only dreamed about (as requested).
Church of the Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic
Faith Philadelphia, PA (Jan/08)
* Co-presenting for with Tracy Wood, M.Ed., LMFT & Jennifer Foust M.S., LPC
for three hours to a group of 100 women "S.A.Y. What? Sisterly Expressions and Intimate Conversations"
NBC10, News at
11pm with Investigator Harry Hairston, Philadelphia, PA (September/07)
* Interview about swinging
6pm News with Stephanie Stahl on
CBS3, Philadelphia, PA (July/07)
*Health:
Muscles vs. Brain For Women
Swarthmore College, Sexual Health Counselors, Philadelphia, PA ( Aug/06)
* Co-presenting
with Tracy L. Wood M.Ed., LMFT for three hours to the Sexual Health Counselors
student group on: Ways to answer students technical questions about the
pleasurable aspects of sex, sexuality & intimacy.
Surviving Motherhood on TLC, Philadelphia, PA (Aug/06)
* Parenting strategies
11pm News with Stephanie Stahl on CBS 3, Philadelphia, PA (May/06)
*Health,
Secrets of seduction
Your Morning on CN8, New Castle, DE (Sep/03-Aug/05)
* A live
television interview: Tips for safer sex (Sept/03).
* A live television
interview: Discussed the importance of sex and how bachelorette workshops can
help individuals (Jun/03).
* A live television interview: 12 ways to rev up your sex life (Jan/04).
* Taped television interviews: Sex and pregnancy, sex and menopause, and sex and
STD’s (March 29, 04)
* A live television interview: (May/05)
* A live television interview: Spicing up your sex life (June/05)
* A live television interview: Getting sexy after sex (Jul/05)
* A live television interview: After the affair (Aug/05)
Love and Romance with Sue McGarvie Toronto, Canada (Jun / 05)
*Taped interview about sexuality
2005 AASECT Annual Conference – What’s New What Works: Pioneering Solutions For
Today’s Sexual Issues, Portland OR (May / 05)
* Sex and
Pregnancy, Presented with Dr. Gearhart
Temple University, Human Sexuality Education Course, Philadelphia PA (April,
05)
*Guest lecturer:
Sexual Function & Dysfunction.
It’s a New Day with Rip Daniels on www.wjzd.com and on the radio 94.5
Mississippi (Feb 14, 05)
*A live radio
interview: Swinging, is it healthy?
New Hampshire Nursing Association Fall Conference, Concord, NH (Oct 6, 04).
*Cosmetic Surgeries,
Enhancements, Diets, Herbal Concoctions, Vanity . . . Is it Healthy? Presented
with Dr. Peter Gearhart
*Some of the questions & most of the answers that your patients won't ask.
Presented with Dr. Peter Gearhart
*Closing Plenary Session: Sex & Sexuality in Nursing Practice, How to use the
knowledge in your practice. Presented with Dr. Peter Gearhart
Early Mornings with Trevar Chappell on ABC Local Radio, Australian
Broadcasting Corporation, Australia (Sept/04).
*A live radio interview: Pornography, is it healthy?
Anderson Copper 360° on CNN,
Philadelphia, PA (Jun/04)
*A live television
interview: Sex & Swinging
Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA (Feb/03)
1 hour grand rounds lecture for OB/GYN physicians, midwives and nurses on sexual
function / dysfunction.
Best Nest, Philadelphia, PA (Dec/00-02)
Yearly in-service trainings for foster care social workers to learn how to
talk to foster care families, biological parents and foster children about
sexuality issues.
New York University Medical School, New York, New York (Jan/02)
1 hour workshop for
NYU medical students on sexually transmitted infections.
Philadelphia Family Pride, Philadelphia, PA (Nov/00)
2 hour training
geared for gay and lesbian parents on how to talk to their children about
sexuality.
Robboy, Alex (2002). Lost in translation? The hazards of applying social constructionism to quantitative research on sexual orientation development. The Journal of Homosexuality. v42, #3, p89–102.
PROFESSIONAL COMMITTEES
American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists
(Sept/98-Aug/00)
Member of the Online Committee, which is responsible for the maintenance and
continued development of the AASECT web site.
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (Sept/93-May/94)
Delegate to the Graduate and Professional School Assembly, (Sept/93-May/94)
Member of the Student Council, (Sept/93-May/94)
Council for Prostitution
Alternatives, Portland, OR (Jun/92-Jun/93)
Member of the Board
of Directors
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS & LICENSURES
American Association
for Marriage and Family Therapy
AAMFT,
Clinical Member (02-Present)
American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists
AASECT
Member (96-Present)
American Association of Sex
Educators, Counselors and Therapists – Certified Sex Therapist CST
(03-Present)
American Board Certified Sexologist
ABS (04-Present)
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
LCSW
(97-Present)
National Association of Social Workers
NASW
(94-Present)
North American Society
for Psychosocial Obstetrics and Gynecology
NASPOG (2006-Present)
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