A thoughtful, experienced partner in the work of healing.
Wendy Molinaroli, Ph.D., is a Clinical Sexologist and Licensed Professional Counselor, as well as a Nationally Certified Counselor, Certified Gottman Therapist, Certified Sex Addiction Therapist, EMDRIA Certified EMDR Therapist, and board-certified sex therapist. Licensed in South Carolina, she offers in-person and telehealth appointments in South Carolina, with telehealth appointments in North Carolina and Vermont. She is one of only four Certified Sex Addiction Therapists in Charleston.
Experience that meets the whole story.
Wendy has been helping people since 1987, beginning her career in the investigation and treatment of childhood abuse and neglect. Over nearly four decades, her clinical experience has included adolescent and adult psychiatric care, crisis intervention, family work, school counseling, and private practice.
Today, Wendy’s work centers on complex couples, trauma, sex, porn and love addiction, and helping people develop more authentic relationships with themselves and with others. As a Clinical Sexologist, she also helps individuals and couples explore what healthy sexuality means for them, free from shame, unrealistic expectations, or someone else’s definition of what their intimate lives “should” look like.
Wendy holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Sexology and is a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist (CSAT), an EMDRIA-Certified EMDR Therapist specializing in complex trauma and dissociative disorders, and a Certified Gottman Therapist. Her Gottman certification reflects extensive training and assessment in Gottman Method Couples Therapy, including training with Drs. John and Julie Gottman and other Gottman Method trainers. She has also trained in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, attachment theory, mindfulness, and ego-state therapy.
Her approach recognizes that sexuality does not exist in isolation. It is intertwined with attachment, relationships, trauma, identity, emotional safety, and the ways we have learned to connect, or protect ourselves from connection. Whether someone is healing from sexual trauma, struggling with compulsive sexual behavior, navigating intimacy within a relationship, or simply trying to understand their own sexuality more fully, Wendy provides a knowledgeable, compassionate, and nonjudgmental space for that exploration.
Wendy has consulted for The Post & Courier, WTMA Talk Radio, and WCIV News in Charleston and has presented professionally on the neurobiology of addiction. Her work brings together decades of clinical experience with advanced training in relationships, trauma, addiction, and human sexuality.