What is the difference between a Certified Sex Therapist and a Diplomate of Sex Therapy?
In 2001, AASECT decided to accept professionals requests to lower the strenuous requirements for certification as Sex Therapists. The new requirements ask for a minimum of 50 hours of supervision instead of 100 hours. The new requirements also ask for a minimum of 60 hours of training in sex therapy instead of 90 hours. The title Diplomate of Sex Therapy was thus established by AASECT to recognize those Certified Sex Therapists who were certified under the old, strenuous guidelines, and AASECT grandfathered them into a Diplomate in Sex therapy status. In general, the practice of sex therapy by either a Certified Sex Therapist or a Diplomate is quite similar.
