Georgan Gregg, M.Ed., brings a wealth of personal and professional experience to counsel and support people on emotionally charged health issues. Since 1969 Georgan has done work directly related to human sexuality and has been certified by the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists as a sex counselor and sex educator. She worked with individuals, couples and groups, including those with physical disabilities, regarding sexual dysfunction/dissatisfaction and/or sexual lifestyle issues. She served special populations - physical disabilities including HIV, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, swingers, polyamorists, and dominants/submissives - to deal effectively with the complexities and individualization of human sexuality. Georgan knows psychological needs change during each individual's battle with disability. Her philosophy of community counseling (working with individuals, groups, and the general public) accepts each person where they are, focusing on quality of life issues.Among her many achievements, Georgan served as the Assistant Director of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National AIDS Hotline (beginning in 1987), the largest health-related hotline in the world. Under her leadership the Hotline took calls 24/7 from all 50 states, Guam and Puerto Rico, and was made accessible to people with hearing impairments and people who spoke Spanish. Over 1 million callers each year learned technical, medical and sexual information. Two years after Georgan's life partner died of AIDS, in 1992, she decided to leave the Hotline to expand her counseling practice and take on two additional roles. Georgan became coordinator of local hospice volunteers in working with terminally ill patients and their families and case managed people living with HIV to ensure support, information, referral and advocacy. She received an award from the local HIV/AIDS Council for training AIDS buddies.
Georgan publishes a flyer, Hot Safe(r) Sex!, for free distribution to counseling clients, at public presentations, and the annual safe(r) sex booth at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Health Fair. Her theory is people are less likely to become infected, or reinfected, with HIV or other STD by learning sex can be safe(r) and fulfilling, or "hot." In 1997, Georgan survived a traumatic brain injury. Georgan now lives with a disability and uses the Internet as the method for her lifework.