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Kenneth M. Maguire, PsyD

Assistant Director, Institute for Sex Therapy
Staff Therapist, Oxford Valley
267-479-2391

Dr. Maguire is a licensed psychologist who specializes in helping couples and individuals, including adolescents. In his clinical work, Dr. Maguire works with clients to create a safe space where they can explore the challenges they are facing. Relationships are a central piece of all our lives, and Dr. Maguire works to help people explore how they can create the types of relationships they desire.

In working with couples, Dr. Maguire works with people who are dating, considering commitment, or married/partnered. Dr. Maguire sees couples of all ages, though he specializes in working with young couples, helping them navigate the particular challenges they face, including balancing career development, enhancing intimacy in their relationship, establishing effective communication patterns and learning to problem solve together.

Dr. Maguire has expertise in working with adults and adolescents who have experienced a lifetime of trauma, or single traumatic events in their life. Dr. Maguire has successfully treated individuals with histories of physical, sexual and emotional abuse in both couples and individual therapy. Dr. Maguire helps people process past experiences and progress in their healing process at their own pace.

When working with teenagers, Dr. Maguire seeks to help teens overcome the challenges they are facing. Being a teen is often a time of tremendous change and uncertainty. He seeks to help teens navigate this period and overcome their challenges. He collaborates with parents/guardians when it is helpful, believing that informed and involved parents/guardians are an integral part of the process.

Dr. Maguire has extensive experience in successfully treating people experiencing difficulty with sexual addiction, love addiction, compulsive sexuality, internet addiction, gambling addiction and codependency. He understands the shame, embarrassment and pain that these behaviors can cause, is non-judgmental, and is supportive in helping clients achieve their goals. Dr. Maguire helps individuals and couples identify the feelings, thoughts and behaviors that are part of these patterns, how they impact relationships and how they can be changed to construct the desired outcome and improved life.

Dr. Maguire specializes in working with couples and individuals who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, intersexual, transsexual, transgender or questioning (LGBITQ), as well as couples where one or both partners identify as LGBTIQ. He helps them achieve whatever their therapy goals may be (which may be unrelated to sexual or gender identity). He understands the particular challenges, both subtle and obvious, faced by the community and is sensitive to how these challenges impact those he works with, helping them to navigate those waters while also exploring what brought them to seek counseling.

Dr. Maguire can be reached at 267-479-2391.

Tip of the Week Article Written by Dr. Kenneth Maguire:

• Conversion Therapy
• Working 9 to 9 and Recharging Relationships

Media Engagements by Dr. Kenneth Maguire:

• Philadelphia Magazine - How Does Your Marriage Stack Up?
  Rita DeMaria, PhD, Edd Conboy, MS, MFT, and Ken Maguire, PsyD weigh in on how today's couples are dealing with a whole different set of issues than their parents, from Facebook-stalking to who gets to pick the love seat. Can marriage survive it? 5/27/11

• CN8: It's Your Call With Lynn Doyle
  Dangers of Sexting | Dangers of Sexting - Part Two | Dangers of Sexting - Part Three |
  Dr. Ken Maguire talks with Lynn Doyle about the dangers of kids and sexting. 5/3/10

• NBC 10! Show - Why Casual Sex is on the Rise in Philadelphia
  Dr. Ken Maguire discusses his perspective on the changing role of casual sex in everday life. 4/15/10

• NBC 10 News - Talking to Your Kids About Sexting
  CFR therapist, Dr. Ken Maguire, talks about the dangers of technology, sexting, and bullying. 12/4/09

• KYW Newsradio -
  Craigslist Under Microscope After Boston Hotel Murder
  Dr. Kenneth Maguire, assistant director of the Institute for Sex Therapy at CFR, discusses the Craigslist murder and people's motivations for advertising online for anonymous interactions. 4/22/09