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Author Biography
Lisa Sherper is a sex and relationship therapist in the Washington D.C. area who works with a diverse client base. After leaving the Wake Kendall Group in 2017, she began a solo practice. She has been a guest lecturer at The Catholic University of America’s master’s in social work program and at Georgetown University for the psychiatry department. She reviewed research studies for the Clinical Social Work Journal and provided sex and mental health education for Sidwell Friends High School. She has a specialty in menopause and provided menopause training for the Greater Washington Clinical Social Work Society.
Lisa Sherper’s clinical training includes: Dialectical Behavior Skills Training, Dialectical Behavior Therapy: Treating Clients with Borderline Personality Disorder and Substance Use Disorders, Beyond the Basics: DBT in Action, Prolonged Exposure Therapy for Anxiety Disorders and PTSD, Five-Day Foundational DBT Training Course, Mentalization-Based Therapy, Couple Therapy Training: PACT Level 1, Socio-Emotional Relationship Therapy, Relationship Enhancement Therapy, Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Accelerated Resolution Therapy. She is an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist.
Lisa Sherper’s work as a couple therapist disrupting the unequal flow of power in relationships is gratifying but infinitesimally slow. She is impatient and wants to see more rapid change in heterosexual relationships. She was in a unique position to write this book as a seasoned therapist with a background in feminist theory. She graduated in 1988 from Rutgers college with a bachelor’s degree in political science and a minor in women’s studies. In 1993, she obtained a master’s degree in political philosophy from the University of Glasgow and wrote her thesis on ecofeminism. After handing in her thesis, and discovering she was pregnant, she moved to the United Arab Emirates and landed a job teaching political science at a local university.
Upon returning to the US with a young child, she like many women juggled part-time work with parenting to avoid expensive childcare costs. She has experienced the realities of the DIY society, divorce, and single motherhood. The common thread in her work as a therapist working to improve relationship health and increase mutuality was that heterosexual relationships were chronically imbalanced. Informed by feminist theory, she began to see a pattern in relationships of a mis-entitled (my term) couple where women were disproportionately responsible for the relationship and family. She wrote this book to elevate the issue out of the therapy room and into public discourse.
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