About Me Summary of Personal Qualifications
• Passion for people • Sensitive, perceptive, and intuitive, with superior listening skills • Adept at communicating with people across socio-economic, ethnic, and professional backgrounds • Equally experienced with individuals and groups • Excellent facilitator, counselor, teacher and presenter
I have held positions in large and small companies. I was a business process trainer and developed computer-based training courses for companies such as Martin Marietta Data Systems (currently Lockheed Martin). I managed marketing functions – sales literature, public relations, and conferences – at Systems Center (currently Computer Associates). I was a strategic planner at Ogilvy & Mather Direct (currently Ogilvy One). I have also served as director of qualitative research at two market research companies.
I have been a therapist in an out-patient substance abuse program, in a residential treatment facility based on a 12 Step approach, and a county jail. I have been a crisis counselor in a community agency, a health educator in a state agency, and taught psychology of adulthood at the college level. I have had a private practice as a counselor, on at least a part-time basis, since 1992.
• Ph.D., 1981, University of Michigan. Adult Development/Educational Psychology. Dissertation: "An inquiry into career change during the age thirty transition."
• Licensed Mental Health Counselor (NY State #18-000355) • Member, American Counseling Association • Member, Association for Adult Development and Aging • Member. New York Mental Health Counselors Association. Chairperson, Professional Development Committee and Program Chairperson, 2006 Conference • Member, American Psychosomatic Society • Secretary, Board of Directors, of Miracle House, a non-profit organization in New York City that serves patients and caregivers who are visiting New York City for HIV or cancer treatment • Certified Employee Assistance Professional, and member, Employee Assistance Professionals Association • Trained in critical incident stress management through the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation • Certified Grief Counselor, Grief Recovery Institute • Presenter at conferences sponsored by professional organizations, including the Advertising Research Foundation and the Association for Adult Development and Aging
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