Biography

Dr. Donald St. Louis is a licensed psychotherapist (MFC 31106) in private practice, with offices in Santa Clara, California. He provides individual, couples, and group psychotherapy to men and women recovering from the effects of childhood trauma and abuse, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, depression, sexuality issues, and addictions.

He is a Certified Sexual Addiction Therapist (CSAT-), having trained with Patrick Carnes, widely regarded as the foremost expert in the field of sexual addiction and recovery. In 2002 Don founded the California Institute for Sexual Recovery which provides state of the art treatment services for persons recovering from compulsive sexual behaviors and addiction.

Dr. St. Louis has also trained with Pia Mellody, and uses her model of trauma resolution and shame reduction with clients who have sustained childhood abuse. Healing these wounds enables clients to live life much more richly and deeply, and to enjoy more rewarding and intimate relationships with others.

Dr. St. Louis has been a long-term faculty member at Santa Clara University where he held a joint appointment to two graduate programs. In the Graduate Program in Pastoral Ministries he has taught pastoral ministers in the area of spirituality and psychology, the relationship between psychology, spirituality and religious ministry. In the Graduate Program in Counseling Psychology, he has specialized in the legal and ethical dimensions of clinical practice, and teaches developmental psychology. Dr. St. Louis is also the architect of the LGBTQ Emphasis in SCU’s Counseling Psychology Program.

He is a frequent presenter in Santa Clara University‘s Center for Professional Development providing continuing education for licensed clinicians in the areas of professional ethics and in the assessment and treatment of sexual addiction and sexual anorexia.