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After graduating from the University of
Miami and Georgia State University with graduate work at Emory
University as well, I began my career as a social worker with the
Henry County Counseling Center.
I coordinated the alcohol and drug
treatment program in Henry County, implemented community education
programs about divorce, parenting, and family therapy and pioneered
an innovative court referral program in which certain first-time
offenders could accept family therapy services as an alternative to
incarceration. In l987 the Municipal Court of the City of Atlanta
solicited my assistance and participation for a pilot program based
on my original concept in Henry County. The program continues today
and our recidivist rate has remained at "0" for offenders who
complete the program.
I have worked throughout my years in
private practice in community education as well as in the training
of professionals in my field.
I have presented programs for the staff
of area hospitals, including Mercer University's School of Medicine.
I have presented for The American
Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (six years
consecutively), the Georgia Association for Marriage and Family
Therapy, The American Bar Association, and the Sixteenth Annual
Family Therapy Network Symposium.
I provided marriage and relationship
education for over ten years in the adult education department of
Peachtree Presbyterian Church for both singles and couples.
I have been a frequent guest on numerous
call-in talk radio programs in the Atlanta area in which I provided
advice to listening audiences in need of practical solutions for
various crisis and non- crisis situations.
I served as Membership Chairperson for
the Georgia Association for Marriage and Family Therapy for four
years and was advisor to The Stepfamily Association of Atlanta for
the years that it existed here. I have also served as a member of
the editorial board for the "Journal of Family Therapy".
I am very excited about a new marriage
education course that I am beginning in Atlanta--"Married and Loving
It". Please download the brochure. I will be posting announcements
about the course in the future.
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