Judith Steinhart is an independent consultant specializing in Health and Sexuality. This website provides information about subjects she covers; it also highlights some of of her previous work. The website also includes Judith's blog, filled with thoughts, ruminations, resources, an interactive forum on a variety of issues.

Before working independently, Judith most recently worked at Columbia University as a health educator, coordinating events and projects such as Sex Awareness Week and programs for New Student Orientation.

Judith also co-created and worked on Columbia’s popular and perhaps the oldest interactive health Q&A service, Go Ask Alice! for 13 years.

She has worked with, taught, and learned from thousands of students and their families at schools such as Brooklyn College, Stony Brook University, Indiana University, Nassau Community College , Virginia Commonwealth University, College of New Rochelle, and New York University.

Before working at Columbia, Judith coordinated training programs for the NYC Department of Health and for the Greater New York March of Dimes. 

Through meeting and working with people from diverse backgrounds,  Judith has learned about a wider range of anxieties, hopes, fears, and obstacles in daily life and in times of transition, which she incorporates into her work.

Goals

Judith's works with and coaches people as they...

• Prepare for life transitions such as:
• going from high school to college
• leaving college for life beyond
• talking with their children and teens about life including sex, drugs, rock and their values
• changing from one career or professional position to another
• Gather vital information and examine their values to make healthier decisions
• Find ways to speak more assertively and manage conflict more successfully
• Identify what they can do to increase their satisfaction, and develop or rediscover pleasure in their relationships, both with themselves and with partner(s)
• Notice their physical, sexual, and emotional responses
• Look at their beliefs, wants, needs, expectations, obstacles, and paths to reach their goals

How

Judith creates safe environments for people to discuss their unique experiences, beliefs, and values, and to hear those of others.

She facilitates workshops, provides trainings, and gives presentations for schools, universities, businesses, and nonprofit organizations.  She also works with people individually, as couples, or in groups.

More Facts about Judith

• Cited as “A Person to Know” in the New Student Orientation Issue, "The Columbia Spectator", September 2005
• Serves on the Editorial Board of the "American Journal of Sexuality Education"
• Invited to serve as one of 16 members on the National Advisory Committee for Sexual Health, Morehouse College Medical School, convened by Dr. David Satcher
• Researched where a 9th grade boy could buy "rubbers, and not the kind you wear on your feet", when it was illegal in New York State for anyone under 18 to buy condoms.
• Sought after to teach Dr. Ruth Westheimer's classes after she left her position at Brooklyn College
• Trained as a clinical sexologist
• Certified as a sexuality educator, counselor, and therapist.

Written

• "The Go Ask Alice Book of Answers: A Guide to Good Physical, Sexual and Emotional Health" (co-author)
• "Go Ask Alice!" Answers Health-Related Questions for Millions on the Net (SIECUS Report)
• "Sexuality educators talk about their career paths" (SIECUS Report)

Judith in Action

•  "No Sweat Speaking" (Public speaking video sessions viewable online on Fathom.com)

judith@judithsteinhart.com | (212) 866-0047