Nan Wise is a neuroscientist, licensed psychotherapist, and AASECT Certified Sex Therapist with three decades of clinical experience. She holds a PhD in behavioral neuroscience from Rutgers University, where she researched the neuroscience of female sexual response using fMRI. She serves as Associate Research Professor at Rutgers and is the author of Why Good Sex Matters.

Specialties

Depth orientation

Wise bridges neuroscience and depth-oriented sex therapy, exploring how the brain's core emotional systems shape sexual pleasure, desire, and embodied experience — connecting the somatic and neurobiological with the psychodynamic.

Wise’s approach Preparing for a first session with Wise