About Dr. Pat
For more than 35 years, Dr Pat Wiklund has counseled, coached, instructed, and supported men and women who wanted to take charge of the challenges they faced and develop more satisfying and fulfilling relationships and accomplishments…at home and at work.
For many years she counseled individuals and couples in her therapy practice. All the while, speaking with thousands of seminar participants from Canada to South Africa, Europe to Latin America…and every state in the United States.
Her Corporate and Government clients ranged from the highest levels of the Federal Government to the smallest of rural hamlets, Fortune 100 corporations to one-person entrepreneurs.
Her work with clients is solidly based in her education: a B.A. in Education (San Francisco State College), a M.A. in Human Development (University of Chicago), and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology (Fielding Graduate Institute). She also has earned post-graduate certification from the College of Executive Coaching in Southern California.
Pat’s dissertation research focused on the effects on the male partners of women who received group treatment for anorgasmia (the inability to achieve orgasm). Unsurprisingly, she documented her clinical observations that the men’s initial hesitations about their wives being in treatment was dispelled as the women became more eager and willing to have sexual relations more frequently. The men found this result more than made up for their initial discomfort.
Author of two trade published books, Sleeping With a Stranger and Taking Charge When You’re Not in Control, as well as several self published books, and hundreds of articles in print and on the web.
Pat’s hundreds of media appearances include Oprah (twice!), Phil Donahue, Maury Povich, Leeza, Sally Jesse Raphael, 20/20, TechNation, plus dozens more local and national television and radio programs.
She has been quoted in New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Entrepreneur, Self, San Francisco Business Times, as well as dozens of local and trade newspapers and magazines.
Now retired from consulting and clinical practice, Pat is living her dream in a small, rural community in the Pacific Northwest, enjoying visits with her grandson, cruising the waters of Puget Sound and British Columbia, and exploring blue highways throughout the U.S.
