Biography

Heather Howard, PhD, MPH is a board certified sexologist and mind-body health facilitator with a clinical concentration in pelvic, sexual, and chronic pain. She founded the Center for Sexual Health and Rehabilitation to help clients meet their sexual and intimate goals, and developed the Ergoerotics® process to promote comfortable pleasure.

In addition to her private practice work, Heather developed a series of educational videos to help patients with chronic health conditions to find comfortable pleasure, as well as a library of ergonomic sexual positions to assist health care providers with making clinical recommendations to patients. She also completed funded research entitled “A Culturally-Informed Educational Program to Promote Sexual Health and Well-Being Among Refugee Women.”

She is the Treasurer of the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health (ISSWSH), a reviewer for the Journal of Sexual Medicine, a clinical interviewer for Daré Bioscience’s Phase 2 RESPOND study of Sildenafil cream in women with FSAD, and a CE Provider for the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT). She is formerly a clinical skills instructor for the Stanford School of Medicine Obstetrics & Gynecology Department and for the Herman and Wallace Pelvic Rehabilitation Institute.