Marnie Spiegel, LCSW (she/her/hers)
I’m Marnie Spiegel, and I’m a licensed clinical social worker and a human sexuality educator with advanced training in treating sexuality-related concerns.
I am passionate about helping individuals and couples enhance their sex lives and improve their communication, connection, and relationships. I view sex as a natural, healthy expression that should lead to all parties involved feeling satisfied. I fundamentally believe that sexual wellness is essential to our overall mental health and that we need to take the taboo out of sex!
Marnie Spiegel has over 20 years of experience providing psychotherapy for individuals and couples with specialization in sexual health, sex therapy, and working with survivors of sexual trauma.
Ms. Spiegel is a licensed clinical social worker and a member of the National Association for Social Workers (NASW), the American Association for Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) and the Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health (ICAH). She is an active contributor to Planned Parenthood’s board of directors. Ms. Spiegel proudly identifies as queer and has frequently attended The Creating Change Conference, which focuses on skill-building, leadership, political activism and social justice for the LGBTQ community, in collaboration with the National LGBTQ Task Force. Ms. Spiegel’s clinical interests include helping clients navigate postpartum life and the transition to parenthood, sexual desire discrepancy, body image concerns, pelvic pain, performance anxiety, changes in sexual arousal, and parenting concerns. Whether it has been through starting a private practice or running a sexual health clinic, Ms. Spiegel’s passion has been and remains working with individuals and couples to help provide a safe space to explore difficult topics such as sexuality, consent, gender identity, intimacy, infertility, and sexual trauma.
Ms. Spiegel has spent her entire career educating and counseling individuals and couples while attempting to de-stigmatize sex, sexuality, and gender identity. Ms. Spiegel received her Master’s degree in social work from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2002. Before joining Embrace Sexual Wellness, LLC., she managed a sexual health clinic for adolescents designed to prevent unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections. Ms. Spiegel has developed professional trainings to educate professionals working with the LGBTQIA+ community and providing trauma-informed care for survivors of sexual trauma.
As a parent herself, Ms. Spiegel is particularly skilled at helping parents and caregivers navigate difficult conversations with their children. She has extensive experience assisting parents in supporting their children’s sexual development to help them become sexually healthy adults. Ms. Spiegel’s combined experience as a clinician and educator aided in the development of a parenting initiative about how to approach conversations about sex. Ms. Spiegel also provides workshops for caregivers and teens educating and exploring how to engage youth in difficult conversations around puberty, sexuality, internet safety, bullying, stress management, and healthy relationships.
SPECIALIZATIONS: RELATIONSHIP COMMUNICATION, PERINATAL MENTAL HEALTH, DESIRE DISCREPANCIES, EXPLORING SEXUAL + GENDER IDENTITY, LGBTQ+ AFFIRMING CARE.
