About Dr. Koby Frances

Dr. Koby Frances is an Orthodox Jewish educator and life coach who works with religious and traditional-values minded individuals and communities.

Dr. Frances is highly involved in training Rabbis and therapists on effective, common-sense and religiously compatible approaches to understanding unwanted sexual attractions and sexual identity confusion. Between 2023 and 2024, he was the key presenter at four different internationally attended video workshops for Orthodox Jewish therapists, teachers and Rabbis, which were viewed by hundreds of attendees all over the world.

Having identified the powerful role of myth and misinformation in creating unnecessary confusion and distress in hundreds of his own clients, Dr. Frances has developed an educational and coaching approach that focuses on teaching accurate scientific information about the basics of sexual desire, relationships and identity.

He uses this information as a primary way to both challenge harmful but ingrained myths and guide clients toward traditional marriage and family, without changing anything about them or their core nature. (Dr. Frances has no training or relationship with any conversion or reparative therapy approaches.)

Previously, Dr. Frances held several academic appointments at both undergraduate and graduate level psychology programs including City College, The University of Indianapolis, Yeshiva University and Touro College where he was Chair of Psychology. His 2010 paper “The Tightrope of Desire: A Qualitative Study of Sexual Conflict in Single Heterosexual Orthodox Jewish Men” was published in the APA Journal “Psychoanalytic Psychology”. He is currently working to publish several manuscripts on the topic of sexual-orientation ideology and lust-triggers.

Dr. Frances received his PhD from the City University in New York. Prior to opening his practice, Dr. Frances worked in hospitals, community mental health clinics and college counseling centers where he directed a busy, high-caliber training program for psychology graduate students at the State University of New York. Dr. Frances has advanced training in psychodynamic, Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy.

He is originally from Toronto, Canada.