Alice Kahn Ladas, EdD

is a licensed psychologist in New Mexico and New York.  She is co-author of the NY Times best seller, The G Spot and Other Discoveries About Human Sexuality. 

Alice helped to found The Insitute for Bioenergetic Analysis, the first organization to promote body psychotherapy in the United States.  She is a Certified Bioenergetic Analyst.  Because of her fierce advocacy for research in this field, the Research Awards of the U. S. Association for Body Psychotherapy are named after her.  She is a member of that organization and the International Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis.

Alice's doctoral dissertation, completed at Columbia University, The Relationship of Information and Support to the Outcome of Breastfeeding (1970) was published in 4 peer reviewed journals and helped to promote the resurgence of breastfeeding in the United States.  She is also co-author with her late husband, Harold, of Women and Bioenergetic Analysis.

Throughout her career, Alice has been an active sex educator and worked to help women reclaim the right to use their own bodies as they wish.  Because of this, she received a Smith College medal in 2011.

At her office in New Mexico, she sees individuals, couples and families.  She is a member of the New Mexico Psychological Association and in the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology.  She accepts most insurances and offers a sliding scale fee for those without insurance.

Alice is also a Humanist Celebrant, licensed to perform change of life ceremonies.

Aladas@aol.com