Meral Crane, M.A., L.P.C.C., clinical director of the Gender Dysphoria Program of Central Ohio, is a licensed clinical counselor, certified sex therapist, marriage and family therapist, and marriage enrichment facilitator in private practice.

She directed the Human Sexuality Center at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, from 1973 to 1975; was a therapist at the Ohio State University Mental Health Clinic from 1975 to 1988. In addition to directing the GDPCO, she has since 1978 been a clinical instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Ohio State University College of Medicine. She is also a consultant for sexual/marital therapy cases at the Ohio Sleep Medicine Institute, and is a frequent speaker, facilitator, and consultant in continuing education programs.

She has served terms as president of the Central Ohio Psychological Association and the Ohio chapter of the American Association for Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists.

Meral Crane has done postgraduate work at the Masters and Johnson Institute; the American Association for Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists; the Kinsey Institute for Sex Research; the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy; the American Family Therapy Academy. She regularly participates in gender-dysphoria-related continuing education programs.

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