Don’t Sleep with Him Yet!

Guest Bio: Nancy Lee, PhD

Nancy F. Lee, PhD, is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Beverly Hills, California. Dr. Lee is a leading practitioner of cognitive behavior therapy and specializes in a wide range of behavioral health issues ranging from depression and anxiety to male/female psychosexual desire and functioning. Her warm approach, incisive, practical insights and unique blend of clinical and academic relationship expertise earned her the 2015 Vitals Patients’ Choice Award.

Dr. Lee especially enjoys leading student discussion forums covering a broad scope of psychosocial issues such as hookup culture, dating violence, and high-risk drinking, among others, at local colleges and universities, including UCLA. In addition, Dr. Lee has served on Claremont McKenna College’s Personal and Social Responsibility (PSR) Title IX and Sexual Assault Committee since its (pre- #MeToo) inception approximately five years ago. As such, she has helped draft and implement campus sexual assault prevention, education, and intervention practices. Dr. Lee also devotes considerable time and expertise to young adults on a one-on-one basis. A handpicked advisory board member of Career Up Now, Dr. Lee mentors students and recent graduates (through age twenty-six) of USC, UCLA, and California State University at Northridge (CSUN).   

Also, a dynamic speaker and consultant, Dr. Lee has contributed to KNBC-TV, FOX-TV, KTTV-TV, Metro News and the Los Angeles Times. Dr. Lee received her doctorate at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas-Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in behavioral medicine at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, California. Her independent research has been published in the prestigious Journal of Affective Disorders and the International Journal of Eating Disorders, among others. She is married with two sons.