Stephen Duclos has been working as a family therapist, mental health counselor, and rehabilitation counselor since 1972. He currently holds licenses and national certifications in family therapy, mental health counseling, rehabilitation counseling (CRC), and sex therapy (CST). Long a supervisor of other therapists in these fields, Mr. Duclos is on the faculty of the University of Massachusetts at Boston. In 2012, he and Jessica Price, LICSW, also part of the South Shore Family Health Collaborative, won the Patricia Schiller Prize for their work on Fathers, Adolescent Daughters, and Sexuality. He is vitally interested in father involvement, the unique human development of men, sexuality and relationships, the effectiveness of co-therapy in psychotherapy, the relational development of couples in long-term relationships, and training therapists.
Stephen has long been involved in civil rights. From registering voters in Boston and Georgia in the 1960’s, to helping to establish the second independent living center in the United States for persons with disabilities in the 1970’s, to helping establish bi-racial councils in Boston Public Schools during desegregation, to supporting equal rights for the LGBTQ community, civil rights has been part of his community work. The South Shore Sexual Health Center was created to provide therapeutic services to an underserved population, namely those citizens struggling with aspects of their sexuality.
Stephanie Wallace, LMFT
Stephanie Wallace is a marriage and family therapist who received her B.A. in Psychology from The College of New Jersey and then went on to earn her M.S. in Family Therapy from The University of Massachusetts Boston. Upon completing her education, she began working with South Shore Family Health Collaborative, sister organization to South Shore Sexual Health Center, seeing individuals, couples, and families of all ages and backgrounds. Placing a high value on the importance and role of sexuality in her understanding of her clients' experiences, she began her training to become an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist. To date, she has completed 90 credit hours of course work in Sex Therapy, as well as additional trainings and supervised clinical experiences, and is nearing completion of her certification process. In her free time, she enjoys reading, spending time outdoors, and participating in community theater around the South Shore.
Lauren Drean, MFT
Lauren is a Marriage and Family Therapist with an MS from Brigham Young University. She is published in the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy and Family Process. Lauren knows that often people just get stuck, in behaviors, in relationship patterns, in feelings, in communication and don't know how to move forward. Her goal as a therapist is to help her clients move from a place of being stuck toward healing and progress. She uses insight, self-reflection, education, compassion and laughter to support individuals, couples and families to discover their healing capacity. Lauren’s clinical interests include: relationships, religion, postpartum recovery, women’s issues, desire discrepancy, LGBTQ+, parenting, intimacy, boundary-setting, anxiety, painful intercourse, performance anxiety, eating disorders, body image, grief, low libido, compulsive sexual behaviors, pornography use. She is anti-racist, kink friendly and queer allied.
Kara Katz, RN, MSW
Kara Katz comes to South Shore Sexual Health Center with degrees in Health Psychology (BS), Nursing (BSN) and Social Work (MSW). After working as a family health nurse for 10 years, Kara made the decision to switch careers to social work. Upon completing her master’s degree, she went on to work for South Shore Sexual Health Center. Kara holds a graduate certificate from The University of Amsterdam in Sex, Culture, and Society, has been trained as a sex educator through Planned Parenthood’s “Get Real” program, and she is currently pursuing AASECT certification in order to become a certified sex therapist. Kara’s clinical interests include: sex work; sexual health/sex education; LGBTQ+ issues; polyamory; kink; and pregnancy/postpartum/infertility issues. Kara also enjoys working with clients at the intersection of religion and sexuality and on issues of identity. Kara works with individuals, couples, families, and polyamorous collectives.
