Tiger Devore, PhD

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Psychologist, Certified Sex Therapist, and Sharecare Expert Dr. Tiger Devore.


I have over 25 years of experience doing psychotherapy with all kinds of people. I do lots of work with healthy everyday people and couples who are experiencing problems in daily living or just dissatisfaction with quality of life, going through transitions as they age, change jobs, being in or out of relationship, going through separation, divorce, even death of a partner, or approaching dating after a loss.


I have many years of experience dealing with adjustment to long term disease, including many forms of cancer, AIDS/HIV, being dialysis dependent, or facing and living with organ transplant. My expertise as a certified sex therapist includes all forms of relationship counseling, as well as dealing with all forms of sexual dysfunction, including extensive knowledge of living well with reduced functioning, any form of fetish or alternative sexual practice or lifestyle, and the entire range of gender considerations, from hermaphroditism to sex reassignment.


I have worked in sex research clinics at both the Johns Hopkins Hospital Medical School and the Human Sexuality Program at UCLA, wrote a sex education program that was adopted by counseling center and health center staffs at the university and college level nationally, worked for NIH as a crisis counselor at their AIDS treatment and evaluation center at UCLA, even worked with incarcerated sex offenders and been an expert witness in court.


I have been sought out by all forms of media as an expert. I have appeared on television as a sex and relationship expert with Oprah, Dr OZ, Montel, Sally, Leeza and others. I have appeared in documentaries for Discovery Channel, PBS, and National Geographic,  with more to come from New Zealand State television, and BBC. I have been quoted in most popular print magazines, from Men's Fitness to Cosmopolitan, even the Wall Street Journal. I have been an activist and advocate for the rights of people disabled by HIV as well as a range of people who are considered to be sexually different from the mainstream for the last 30 years.


I love my work, and love seeing the people I work with live well. You will not waste your time in psychotherapy with me.



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    TUESDAY, May 21 (HealthDay News) -- Pregnant women with specific alterations in two genes may be at increased risk of suffering depression after giving birth, a small new study suggests.

    The researchers hope they can use the findings to develop a blood test that could help spot pregnant w...Full Article

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    MONDAY, May 20 (HealthDay News) -- Music can help soothe the fear and anxiety of critically ill patients who have been placed on ventilators, reducing both their stress and their need for sedatives, according to a new study.

    Intensive care unit (ICU) patients allowed to listen to music of...Full Article

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    FRIDAY, May 17 (HealthDay News) -- Although being openly gay appears to affect a male actor's masculinity ratings, it does not affect views on his performance, according to a new study.

    Researchers from Clemson University in South Carolina found that an actor who is "out" can be convinci...Full Article

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    FRIDAY, May 17 (HealthDay News) -- Teen bullies are more likely to be criminals when they're adults, a new study finds.

    UT Dallas researchers analyzed several decades of data collected from more than 400 men in Britain. All of them had similar working-class backgrounds and most came from ...Full Article

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    WEDNESDAY, May 15 (HealthDay News) -- Military service members who sustain more than one mild traumatic brain injury may be at much greater risk of suicide, according to a new study.

    Researchers at the University of Utah found that the risk for suicidal thoughts or behaviors increased fo...Full Article

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    THURSDAY, May 9 (HealthDay News) -- Teenage boys who play violent video games for hours on end may become desensitized to the brutality, a small new study finds.

    The research focused on 30 boys, aged 13 to 15, who were divided into two groups. One group typically played violent video game...Full Article

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    FRIDAY, April 26 (HealthDay News) -- When the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings were identified as two brothers -- one of them a teenager -- many parents wondered, "Who raised these boys?"

    Mental health experts say it's normal to want to blame parents or close relatives of young pe...Full Article

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    WEDNESDAY, April 24 (HealthDay News) -- A robot might tidy your kitchen some day, but how will you feel about the mechanical member of the household?

    Researchers say people's empathy for robots can be similar to what they feel for other humans.

    Functional MRI scans showed t...Full Article

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    FRIDAY, April 19 (HealthDay News) -- Gender plays a role in how researchers perceive the work of other scientists, according to a new study.

    Researchers at Ohio State University found that scientific studies written by men were viewed as higher quality than identical studies listing femal...Full Article

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    FRIDAY, April 19 (HealthDay News) -- Media use is a serious distraction for college freshmen, with a new study finding young women devote up to 12 hours daily on pursuits such as texting, posting status updates and surfing the web.

    And the more time spent using media, the research suggest...Full Article

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    FRIDAY, April 19 (HealthDay News) -- Men whose fathers were abusive or absent are more likely to get into bar fights, a new study reveals.

    These findings about alcohol-related aggression are from a survey of 137 men, aged 18 to 25, in Australia, and appear online in advance of publication...Full Article

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    TUESDAY, April 16 (HealthDay News) -- It's the day after the Boston Marathon bombings and three people are dead, including an 8-year-old boy who came to cheer on friends during the race. The boy's mother and sister are both seriously injured. A nation is on edge -- again. And parents are wonderin...Full Article

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    MONDAY, April 15 (HealthDay News) -- Just as the smell of freshly brewed coffee may compel you to pour a steaming cup of java, a small taste of beer may activate part of your brain's reward system and trigger the urge for more, a new study suggests.

    Researchers have discovered that senso...Full Article

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    THURSDAY, April 4 (HealthDay News) -- Many more American women are living with their partners rather than tying the knot, a new government survey finds.

    And they live together longer than couples in the recent past, and many more get pregnant before marriage, according to the survey relea...Full Article

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    THURSDAY, March 28 (HealthDay News) -- Lasting fame rarely happens overnight, but once a person becomes truly famous they are likely to stay that way for a very long time, a new study finds.

    Researchers analyzed the names mentioned in English-language newspapers over several decades, and ...Full Article