Work With Me

Let’s talk about sex, relationships, pelvic floor, and more!

As a Certified Sexuality Occupational Therapist and Pelvic Floor Occupational Therapist, I specialize in all things sexuality, relationships, pelvic floor, and trauma-informed, gender-affirming, and inclusive care.

(Psst… I also specialize in many other hand, upper extremity, and systemic conditions; scroll a little further down to read more!)

There is a LOT going on down there!

  • Center of balance

  • The “muscles of our soul”: often where we hold difficult emotions related to relationships, sexual trauma, and romantic challenges

  • Elimination

  • Sexual function

  • Key muscles for postural alignment

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What I Treat and Areas I Work In

  • Sexual Dysfunction

    For people with vulvas: vaginismus, vaginal dryness

    For people with penises: erectile dysfunction, ejaculation disorder

    Both: Sexual desire and sexual arousal, orgasm disorders due to sensory loss

  • Pelvic Floor Dysfunction

    Including but not limited to…

    For people with vulvas: pelvic organ prolapse, vaginismus, vulvodynia, dyspareunia, endometriosis, diastasis recti

    For people with penises: pelvic organ prolapse, erectile dysfunction, prostatitis

  • Incontinence and Continence Dysfunction

    Urinary: Stress incontinence, urge incontinence, overflow incontinence, neurogenic incontinence, painful urination

    Fecal: constipation, urge incontinence, passive incontinence, painful bowel movements

  • Core Dysfunction

    Urinary incontinence, fecal incontinence, constipation, pelvic organ prolapse, painful urination, dyspareunia, erectile dysfunction, levator ani syndrome, coccydynia, pudendal neuralgia.

  • Communication

    Developing and enhancing sexual and relational communication to promote safe and healthy partnerships and sexual experiences

  • Relationships

    Collaborating to promote deeper intimacy and intimate relationships that meet your needs

  • Sexual Trauma

    Using CBT and gentle somatic techniques to work through sexual trauma to lead a more confident, liberating sexual and romantic life

  • Adaptive Devices & Garments

    Adaptive sexual health and hygiene devices; adaptive sexual pleasure and activity devices; adaptive intimate clothing, including bras, undergarments, and gender-affirming garments

I also treat hand, upper extremity, orthopedic, and systemic conditions, including but not limited to:

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  • Medial epicondylitis

  • Lateral epicondylitis

  • Lupus

  • Osteoarthritis

  • Radial nerve palsy

  • Rheumatoid arthritis

  • Rotator cuff tear

  • Shoulder impingement

  • Sjogren’s Disease

  • Stener’s lesion

  • Stroke

  • TFCC tear

  • Traumatic brain injury

  • Trigger Finger

  • Wrist fracture

  • Balance and gait training

  • Bicipetal tendonitis

  • Biceps tendon rupture

  • Boxer’s fracture

  • Camptodactyly

  • Cancer/deconditioning

  • Carpal tunnel syndrome

  • Cervical radiculopathy

  • Charcot-Marie-Tooth Syndrome

  • Cubital tunnel syndrome

  • DeQuervain’s tenosynovitis

  • Elbow fracture

  • Extensor tendon repair

  • Humerus fracture

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Lindsey Novakovic, OTD, OTR/L, CSOT

Meet your Occupational Therapist

Lindsey Novakovic (she/her/hers) is a licensed Occupational Therapist, Certified Sexuality OT, and doctoral graduate of Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons’ Masters-Doctorate of Occupational Therapy program. She served on the Occupational Therapy Department Student Advisory Board for two years and tutored first-year OT students for one year during her graduate studies at Columbia.

As a disabled occupational therapist, Lindsey immerses herself in the field of occupational therapy in and outside of the clinic, through her advocacy for disability rights and occupational justice, expression of the lived experience, continuing education in intimacy, sex, pelvic floor, and their intersection with physical disability. Lindsey’s doctoral work focused on the development and validation of a self-report measure that provides occupational therapists with the necessary information to better support their clients in intimacy and sex-related occupations.

Testimonials

  • Lindsey was informative, qualified, and extremely easy to work with for my c-section recovery. She was hands on but also gentle and patient with me. She boosted my confidence regarding my my core strength and I feel stronger after just 6 sessions. Thank you, Lindsey!

    June 26, 2025

  • Lindsey was a sheer delight. She was professional, extremely competent, and so very personable. I had broken both bones in the wrist of my dominant hand and thanks to Lindsey’s excellent directions and the program she worked out for me I have regained almost total use of that wrist. While it was a most unfortunate accident that initiated our relationship, Lindsey‘s competence and personality made it a pleasant experience. I will miss our therapy sessions.

    July 23, 2025

Book An Appointment

Book An Appointment

The Prohealth and Fitness PT & OT office is located at 150 West End Avenue near 68th Street in New York City.

 

To book an appointment:

  1. Call 212-600-4781 to schedule your first appointment (an initial evaluation).

  2. Have your doctor fax a referral to Prohealth and Fitness PT & OT at 800-655-3780.

Prohealth and Fitness PT & OT also treats a range of other conditions, including but not limited to orthopedic, upper extremity, and neurological conditions (e.g., Parkinson’s, dementia, MS), post-stroke or TBI recovery, post-op recovery (e.g., knee, hip, or shoulder replacement), weakness, balance/gait and so much more!

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