About Lanae

“I’m passionate in the belief that everyone deserves to have the sex life they want. That opens them up to get the life they want. To get there, sometimes we have to reexamine or unlearn some of the things that were incorrect as we grow up, and I help you question what you learned to see if it is working for you in your life."

-Dr. Lanae

Dr. Lanae St.John, is a board-certified sexologist with the American College of Sexologists (ACS), a certified sex coach, and former professor of Human Sexuality at City College of San Francisco. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, St.John uses her breadth of training and expertise to help students, clients and readers to normalize conversations about sexuality, boundaries, respect, tolerance, and consent.

With a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she focused on Psychology and earned a Certificate in Women's Studies, St.John went on to receive her Masters in Human Sexuality (MHS) and then completed her Doctorate in Human Sexuality (DHS) from the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality. She also serves on the Advisory Board for the World Association of Sex Coaches (WASC) and on the faculty for Sex Coach U. St.John is a member of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (SSSS), the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT), and the International Society for the Study of Women's Sexual Health (ISSWSH). She has also studied with contemporary icons like Drs. Betty Dodson, Betty Martin, and Carol Queen. In addition, she is trained in Somatic Sex Therapy and Sexuality Coaching, Cuddle Party Facilitation, and as a trained professional cuddle practitioner.

A mother of two teen young women, Dr. Lanae, brings her personal experience to her work as an expert on sex and parenting. Her specialty is coaching parents with the difficult task of teaching their kids about sexuality openly and honestly. As a result, families have more openness, more laughing, more connection, less surliness, less anger, and less fear.
As an Intimacy & Relationship Coach, she also works with private clients on a one-to-one basis or in a small group setting. She is skilled at helping women explore themselves better and figure out what turns them on.

Lanae is also available for individual consultations with other helping professionals to help expand the physician or therapist's knowledge of human sexual behavior (aside from the mechanics most professional know), so that they can work more efficiently with all their clients, no matter what the clients' sexual practice may be.