Tina​ Schermer Sellers
Professor Emerita of Marriage and Family Therapy
Email: tsellers@spu.edu
Education: BA, San Diego State University, 1982; MS, º£½ÇÍø, 1991; PhD, Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, 2012. At SPU since 1992.
Without a doubt Dr. Tina Schermer Sellers is doing unique and necessary work in the fields of marriage and sex therapy. As a PhD therapist who emphasizes a “sex-positive Gospel,” she wears many hats: licensed marriage and family therapist, associate professor of sexuality and medical family therapy, writer, speaker, and blogger on marriage and religious sexual shame.
Dr. Schermer Sellers launched the , whose mission is to provide training in sex therapy and spiritual intimacy to psychotherapists, and to provide a solid referral source for pastors, physicians and community leaders. Ironically, therapists typically do not get training in sexual health, and most clinical sexologists do not get training in relationship dynamics.
​Selected publications
Sellers, T. Beloved Sex – Healing Shame and Restoring the Sacred in Sexuality. In Sex, Gender, and Christianity, edited by Priscilla Pope-Levison and John R. Levison (Cascade Books, 2012).
Sellers, T. “Working with Couples Whose Sex Life Isn’t Working: Current Cultural Factors Diminishing Couple’s Sexual Satisfaction” in Persons and Sexuality – Interdisciplinary Reflections, edited by Alison Moore and Carlo Zuccarini. Interdisciplinary Press, 2009. Oxford, United Kingdom.
Grauf-Grounds, C., Sellers, T. “Collaboration in Action: Creating Internships and Potential Jobs for Medical Family Therapists: Lessons Learned”. Family, Systems and Health. Spring 2006. Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 230–37.
Sellers, T., Batts, J., Thomas, K., Ostman, C. Women Called: A qualitative study of Christian women dually called to motherhood and career. The Journal of Psychology and Theology – 2006 Special Edition on Gender and Christianity. 2005. Vol. 33, No. 3, 198–209.
Sellers, T. (Spring 2000) “A Model of Collaborative Healthcare in Outpatient Medical Oncology.” Families, Systems & Health. Vol 18, No. 1: 19–33.
Please view Dr. Schermer Sellers’ CV (PDF) for additional publications.