Stella Resnick, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Beverly Hills, CA, the author of The Pleasure Zone: Why We Resist Good Feelings, and on the faculty of the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute. She served as President of the Western Region of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality. She is a Diplomate of the American Board of Sexology and an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist, CE Provider, and Clinical Supervisor.

A nationally recognized sex expert, Dr. Resnick has had extensive media experience. She has appeared many times on TV including the Oprah, Leeza, and Montel Williams shows, CNN Live, The O’Reilly Factor, KCBS’ Morning News, and UPN’s Evening News. Her seminar on The Pleasure Zone is featured in the PBS television series Body & Soul in segment "Ode to Joy.

Dr. Resnick is frequently contacted by major magazines for interviews and has often been quoted in print on topics related to happiness in relationships and sexual enrichment. She has been quoted in Reader’s Digest, Women’s World, Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Playboy, Self, Redbook, McCall’s, Men’s Fitness, Men’s Health, Glamour, Mademoiselle, Family Circle, Parenting, and the Utne Reader. She has also written cover stories for Psychology Today, Self, and New Age. Dr. Resnick is one of the featured sources in Dennis Wholey’s 2007 book, "Why Do I Keep Doing That: Breaking the Negative Patterns in Your Life."

A prominent speaker and seminar leader, Dr. Resnick is a regular presenter at professional conferences, including the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (SSSS), the American Association for Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT), the American Psychological Association (APA), and the United States Association of Body Psychotherapy (USABP). In November 2006, she delivered a highly regarded keynote address on "The Monogamous Libido: Oxymoron or Transformative Sex?" to an appreciative audience of five hundred at the SSSS national conference at the Las Vegas Hilton.

Her professional papers have been published in the Journal for Humanistic Psychology, Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality, and Gestalt Review. Her article "Sexual Pleasure: Next Frontier in the Study of Sexuality" was featured in The SIECUS Report.

Dr. Resnick received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Indiana University, interned at Langley Porter NPI at UC Medical Center in San Francisco, and was an assistant professor of psychology at San Diego and San Jose State Colleges. She left academia to train in Gestalt therapy with Fritz Perls at Lake Cowichan on Vancouver Island, Canada.

She also trained in Gestalt with Laura Perls, worked with Virginia Satir and Milton Erickson, studied bodywork with Stanley Keleman, Moshe Feldenkrais, John Pierrakos, Phil Cucuruto, Charlotte Selver, Magda Proskauer, and Leonard Orr, and vipassana meditation with Jack Kornfeld, Joseph Goldstein, Trungpa Rinpoche, and Tartang Tulku Rinpoche. In sex therapy, Dr. Resnick took her first Human Sexuality program, at the UC Medical Center, Langley Porter NPI, in San Francisco, with Rebecca Black, Harvey Caplan, Jay Mann, and Bernie Zilbergeld in 1973. In 1974, she met and began to work with Betty Dodson who has become a close friend and colleague.