Melissa L. Donahue, MSW, LCSW, CST, CSTS, ABS

Ms. Donahue is a Certified Sex Therapist and Certified Sex Therapist Supervisor through the American Association of Sexuality Educators Counselors and Therapists. She has expertise in oncological social work and gerontology. She trained at the Institute for Sexual Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine with Dr. Irwin Goldstein, a leader in the field of sexual medicine. She holds a Louis Lowy Certificate in Gerontological Social Work for her studies and research on aging and elderly issues at Boston University, which included an internship at Allcare VNA in Lynn, MA. Ms. Donahue is enrolled in the doctoral program at the School of Social work and Rutgers University Graduate School, New Brunswick, NJ.

Ms. Donahue is experienced in using talk therapy in treating diagnoses of desire, arousal, and orgasm phase difficulties, sexual dysfunctions, body image, relationship issues, pain, sexual abuse, sexuality and oncology issues, and sexuality and disability issues. She sees patients in Morristown and Ridgewood, NJ. With her partners in the NJSWC, she co-authored a chapter in The Art of Sex Therapy Supervision titled “Supervising Referral Relationships.”