HEALTH COUNSELING

Dr Rich Blonna is a world-renowned expert in understanding how the mind and body work together to reduce stress and enhance sex. He is a retired Professor Emeritus from William Paterson University in NJ where he taught Stress Management and Human Sexuality for 28 years. For the past three decades he has devoted himself to helping people just like you stress less and have better sex lives. As a Coach (BCC), Counselor (NCC), and Health Education Specialist (CHES) he uses the best practices from each of these disciplines to help people stress less, live more, and have better sex lives. He is a noted author and trainer in the area of Acceptance and Commitment (AC) Coaching, an approach that helps people become more psychologically-flexible, reduce their stress, and get the most out of their relationships. Dr. Rich is also certified in Naikan and Morita, two forms of Japanese psychology that use mindfulness and acceptance to help people shift their focus off of unhelpful thoughts, feelings, and actions and onto behaving in ways that reduce their stress and enhance their sexuality and their relationships. In addition to writing he is interested in fitness (swimming, rowing, biking, weight training, basketball), hiking and anything that gets him outdoors. He like to canoe and kayak and play tennis with Heidi, his wife of 47 years. He also likes to read, cook, and learn new things as often as possible. He is an avid watcher of sunsets, sunrises, and clouds.