TRA​INING AND EXPERIENCE

 

• Masters in Social Work (MSW) from Smith College School for Social Work.
• Licensed continuously for over 30 years in Massachusetts and Maine.
• Practice Coaching, Consultation, Education and Training in California and over the web.
• Work with couples, families and individuals of all ages.
• Extensive privacy-protected video based practice across the world
• Previously CEO of three non-profits that provided array or continuum of services to children, adolescents and families for 24 years.  Acted as an Interim Executive as part of my consulting practice.
• Private practice both part-time and full time throughout my career in Massachusetts, Maine and California.

 

CURRENT PRACTICE

 

• Focuses on facilitating change with individuals, couples and families.
• Provide co-parenting training for individuals and couples who are separated and or divorced to focus on the best interest of children and help people move on with their lives.
• High conflict divorce coaching or  parallel parenting training .
• Utilize a developmental perspective on couples relationships and the interaction with individual development, family systems orientation, mindfulness skill development, cognitive behavioral concepts, present focus, and extensive understanding of emotional and brain development.
• Individual coaching around transitions and dilemmas: work, family, relationships, parenting, adult children-parent interactions, launching independence, loss and grief.​
• Family interventions across generations and sibling relations to understand and decrease cut-offs in relationships and conflict.
• Work with college students on developing independence and focus in their adult lives.
• Work with high school students and parents on transitions to young adulthood.