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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    FRIDAY, June 14 (HealthDay News) -- In a new finding sure to be shared with some skeptical parents, it seems that the brains of video game enthusiasts make better and faster use of visual input.

    "Gamers see the world differently," study author Greg Appelbaum, an assistant professor of psy...Full Article

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    FRIDAY, June 14 (HealthDay News) -- In a new finding sure to be shared with some skeptical parents, it seems that the brains of video game enthusiasts make better and faster use of visual input.

    "Gamers see the world differently," study author Greg Appelbaum, an assistant professor of psy...Full Article

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    FRIDAY, June 14 (HealthDay News) -- Anyone who has ever been a volunteer knows that it feels good to help others, but researchers have found a less obvious benefit: volunteering can help reduce older adults' risk of high blood pressure.

    The new study included mo...Full Article

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    THURSDAY, June 13 (HealthDay News) -- Middle-class men who take on a large share of childrearing and chores in the family home are often met with disrespect in the workplace, compared to men who follow more traditional gender roles, a new study finds.

    The same holds true for mothers with ...Full Article

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    TUESDAY, June 11 (HealthDay News) -- All those "status updates" and "tweets" that people post as they clamor to be part of the online social network may reflect a troubling trend toward self-absorbed behavior in the United States, a new study suggests.

    The University of Michigan researche...Full Article

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    FRIDAY, June 7 (HealthDay News) -- Overweight and obese patients prefer getting advice on weight loss from doctors who are also overweight or obese, a new study shows.

    "In general, heavier patients trust their doctors, but they more strongly trust dietary advice from overweight doctors," ...Full Article

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    FRIDAY, June 7 (HealthDay News) -- Women are better at remembering faces than men, according to a new study, partly because they spend more time studying facial features without being aware of it.

    Canadian researchers used eye-tracking technology to monitor where study participants looked...Full Article

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    FRIDAY, June 7 (HealthDay News) -- You may have heard of "beer goggles" -- a sly way of describing how people seem to become less picky about potential sex partners when they've had a few drinks. Now, a new study suggests something similar happens to men when they're sleepy: They're slightly more...Full Article

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    THURSDAY, June 6 (HealthDay News) -- Paid vacation and health benefits are coveted job perks. Perhaps windows also belong on that list, new research suggests.

    Workers in offices with windows get more and better sleep at night, are more physically active and have a higher quality of life t...Full Article

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    THURSDAY, June 6 (HealthDay News) -- A new brain imaging study appears to rule out one potential cause of dyslexia, finding that vision problems don't lead to the common reading disorder.

    The new research could have a wide-ranging impact on the detection and tr...Full Article

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    WEDNESDAY, June 5 (HealthDay News) -- Group counseling is more effective than individual therapy in reducing symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and anxiety among victims of sexual violence in war zones, a new study shows.

    "Survivors of sexual violence have high rates o...Full Article

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    MONDAY, June 3 (HealthDay News) -- If you're looking for the perfect mate, a new study suggests you might be on the right track if you turn to the Internet: Married couples who met online were slightly more likely to be happy and stay together than those who ran into each other the old-fashioned ...Full Article

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    FRIDAY, May 31 (HealthDay News) -- Dainty, small feet have long been presumed the ideal for females across much of the world, but a tribe living in northern Sumatra in Indonesia beg to differ.

    New research reveals that the Karo Batak people, who live in rural villages in the northern part...Full Article

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    THURSDAY, May 30 (HealthDay News) -- Men with high levels of narcissism -- an unrealistically positive self-image coupled with feelings of entitlement -- have an easier time than others attracting a potential mate, new German research says.

    "Narcissism is linked to mate appeal in a real-l...Full Article

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    WEDNESDAY, May 29 (HealthDay News) -- Just like some people, apes have emotional responses to the outcomes of their decisions, researchers say.

    Chimpanzees and bonobos living in African sanctuaries sometimes became angry and had a tantrum or pouted when a risky move failed to go their wa...Full Article