HADLEY, Mass. (WWLP) - A new institute focused on expanding access to insured sex and relationship therapy will be opening in western Mass. next month.

The Relationship & Sex Therapy Institute at Advance Psychotherapy Practice, known as RSTI, is set to launch on September 12.

The program brings together credentialed leadership with a supervised training cohort to expand the region's capacity for sex therapy, couples counseling, and related services, both in person across the Pioneer Valley and statewide via Telehealth.

Ariel Pliskin, LICSW, a certified Sex Therapist and Certified Sexuality Educator under the American Association of Sex Education, Counselors, and Therapists, leads RSTI. Pliskin, who previously founded the Stone Soup Cafe in Greenfield before pursuing a career in social w

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