Katie Spencer, PHD, LP, CST

Katie Spencer, PhD, LP, CST, is the clinical training director and the coordinator of the Relationship and Sex Therapy Program (REST) at the Eli Coleman Institute of Sexual Gender Health (ISGH). Dr. Spencer is an associate professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Minnesota Medical School. Dr. Spencer’s clinical, teaching, and scholarly work focuses on queer and gender diverse sex therapy, sexual health and sexual pleasure. As clinical training director she integrates the ISGH pillars (research, clinical, education, and advocacy) in clinical training of ISGH post doctoral fellows and interns while centering affirming, competent, inclusive, celebratory sexual wellbeing and pleasure in sexual and gender healthcare. As REST program coordinator she centers intersectional, accessible, and integrative sex therapy for all sexualities and bodies. She is passionate about creating mutual aid and community networks of care in queer and trans communities and feminist approaches to academic scholarship and clinical practice. She is co-creator (along with Michael Gendernalik and Shari Brightly-Brown, PhD) of the 2SLGBTQIA+ Intergenerational Socials, a bimonthly gathering to promote social connectedness in queer and trans communities.