Sexologists
Job description
These individuals assess the sexual behaviour and development of their clients. They perform interventions and treatments to promote a better sexual balance. They are self-employed or work in:
- Private practice
- Health and social services institutions
- Establishments in the school network
- Correctional service facilities
- Community settings
Environment
- Controlled ambient temperature
- Violence
Main tasks
- Inform people, promote health, and prevent suicide and disease.
- Intervene by assessing sexual disorders.
- Discuss with people and help them determine their goals and how to achieve them.
- Assess, as required, whether a person has a documented mental or neuropsychological disorder.
- Assess, as required, a young person in the context of a court decision.
- Testify in court as an expert witness, as required.
- Facilitate group sessions.
- Support or contribute to scientific research in areas directly or indirectly related to sexology and interpersonal relationships.
- Offer support services and individual or marital therapy.
- Provide individual or group interventions related to sexology.
Training and requirements
Formation
Most training programs are offered in French only.
University
Sexology
Bachelor’s degree
Placement rate: 59.5%
35.7% of graduates pursue further studies
Master’s degree
Placement rate: 80%
20% of graduates pursue further studies
Also required
- Membership in the Ordre professionnel des sexologues du Québec (OPSQ [Quebec Order of Sexologists]).
Sometimes required
- A Psychotherapist's permit issued by the Ordre des psychologues du Québec is required to practise psychotherapy and use the title of Psychotherapist.
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Active listening
- Data collection
- Social perception
- Oral expression
- Judgment and decision-making
- Service oriented
- Reading comprehension
- Critical thought
- Written expression
- Solving complex problems
- Result evaluation
- Persuasion
- Active learning
- Negotiation
- Teaching
- Coordination
- Information processing
- System analysis
- Operation analysis
- Time management
- Human resource management
- Learning strategies
Abilities
- Oral comprehension
- Awareness of issues
- Speech clarity
- Verbal skills
- Written comprehension
- Deductive reasoning
- Written expression
- Inductive reasoning
- Speech recognition
- Idea generation
- Originality
- Classification
- Information organization
- Selective attention
- Near vision
- Information processing speed
- Processing flexibility
Knowledge and attributes
- Capacity to establish and maintain interpersonal relations
- Sense of responsibility
- Capacity to adapt
- Sense of initiative
- Capacity to be discrete
- Vitality
- Respect others
- Capacity to facilitate a group
- Knowledge of psychology
- Knowledge of therapy and counselling
Interests
- Draft, communicate, and inform
- Work in an office
- Create, design
- Carry out research
- Self-employment
- Assist and advise
- Teach or educate
Personality profiles (RIASEC)
- Social
- People with this profile prefer to be in contact with others, in particular to entertain, help or teach them.
- Enterprising
- People with this profile prefer having responsibilities, influencing others and responding to challenges.
- Investigative
- People with this profile prefer relying on theoretical knowledge before acting. They like observation, analysis and problem solving.
Appellation d’emploi liée (à traduire)
Therapists in counselling and related specialized therapies (CNP 41301)
Skill type
Education, law and social, community and government services
Last update: January 29, 2026