Amy Marsh, Sexologist & Hypnotist

Supporting Your Sexual Human Rights & Quest for Pleasure

About Dr. Marsh

Ed.D., DHS, CSC, CH, CI, CSC, ABS

Hello there! Thanks for visiting this site. Here are the qualifications I have to support you in your desire to experience more pleasure and sexual self-confidence and agency in your life.

I am a board certified Diplomate of Sexology (ABS), clinical sexologist (Ed.D, DHS), AASECT-certified sexuality counselor (CSC), and certified hypnotist and hypnosis instructor (CH, CI), who has worked in the field of human sexuality since 2008.

My background and my private practice are eclectic! I combine sexuality counseling and coaching with hypnosis and adult sex education. Though I only work online, my “office” is a safe, “no-shame zone.” I strive to create an atmosphere of warmth, humor, and “unconditional postitive regard” (quote from Carl Rogers). 

In addition to my private practice, I teach online professional courses such as Hypnosis for Sex Problems through my  Intimate Hypnosis Training Center.

I currently write about sex tech and AI for FutureofSex.net (<–see a list of articles at that author page link). Previously I’ve written about a range of sexology topics for Kinkly.com (2024), Carnal Nation (2009-2010), YourTango.com, and other sites.

Personally, I identify as a nonbinary femme and my pronouns are ze/zir and she/her.

“The Office Wall”

Degrees from IASHS, plus American College of Sexologists certification.

Professional Organizations

Conferences & Presentations

  • 1st International Symposium on Trauma and Sexuality, Sept. 5, 2025. Brazil. Virtual.
  • Soft Cock Appreciation Week, 2024. Watch the presentation and listen to a hypnosis demo here. Virtual.
  • Love and Sex with Robots Conference, 2023. Two presentations. Virtual.
  • Pacific Rim International Conference on Disabilities and Diversity, Honolulu, HI (2016, 2009).
  • CatalystCon West, Los Angeles, CA (2015).
  • AASECT, (2014). Monterey, CA.
  • Gender Spectrum (2013, 2012, 2010). Berkeley, CA.
  • The EcoSex Symposium (2011). San Francisco, CA.
  • The American Counseling Association Pre-Conference Learning Institutes (2011, 2010). New Orleans, LA & Pittsburgh, PA.
  • Gender Odessey (2009), Seattle, WA.

Guest Lecturer & Community Presentations

  • Mills College (3x).
  • Berkeley City College (4x).
  • Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality (4x).
  • Community presentations include the Janus Society in San Francisco.

Media and Interviews

Dr. Marsh was recently interviewed, for the second time, by Chion Wolf on Audacious on NPR.

Major television appearances include Japan’s NHK science series, Human Age Ningen no Jidai, which aired in June, 2024; Australia’s Channel 7 Sunday Night show, which aired  May 18, 2019; Good Morning America and Tyra Banks in 2009; and twice on National Geographic Taboo (2010). A more extensive list of interviews can be found on this page.

Books Published 2022-2025

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How to Break Up With a Chatbot: The Thinking Human’s Guide to Managing Digital Desire (2025), IHTC.

How to Make Love to a Chatbot: The Thinking Human’s Guide to AI Erotic Roleplay (2023, 2025), Intimate Hypnosis Training Center.

Entrancing: Hypnotizing Your Way to More Pleasure, Romance, and Sex (2023), Intimate Hypnosis Training Center.

Sexological Hypnosis: Overview, History, & Techniques (2022), Intimate Hypnosis Training Center. [Based in part on 2011 Ed.D. project.]

Publication Date Feb. 2023

Two articles in the Electronic Journal of Human Sexuality: “Le’ale’a o na Poe Kahiko: Joy of the People of Old” (2011) and “Love Among the Objectum Sexuals” (2010).  

Contributor: Three entries in The Cultural Encyclopedia of the Penis (ed. Kimmel, Milrod, & Kennedy),

Contributor: An essay to Transitions of the Heart – Stories of Love, Struggle and Acceptance by Mothers of Transgender and Gender Variant Children (ed. Rachel Pepper).

Selections from Marsh’s “Love’s Outer Limits” columns for Carnal Nation (2009-2010) are collected in Sex Squicks.

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