EDUCATION
Post-Master’s training in Sex Therapy, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, September 2005 - May 2006.
Master Degree in Social Work, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, May 1986
Bachelor Degree in Psychology, Rutgers University,New Brunswick, NJ, May 1984
EMPLOYMENT BACKGROUND
Self-employment as a Psychotherapist providing individual and relationship counseling as well as sex therapy, with a specialty in working with people in the “alternative lifestyle”communities, including sexual minorities and people in the polyamory, leather, BDSM, and fetish communities,
January, 1995 - Present
Psychotherapist providing individual and relationship counseling and sex therapy at the Institute for Personal Growth, Highland Park, NJ, a counseling center which is internationally recognized for its expertise on sexual minorities: gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender, as well as people in the leather, BDSM (kink), and polyamory communities. www.ipgcounseling.com
March 2002 - Present
Sex Therapy Supervisor providing supervision for Sex Therapists in training. Working under the supervision of an AASECT-Certified Sex Therapy Supervisor, I am gaining the experience and hours needed and should be certified by June, 2012.
School Counselor and Sexuality Educator
Rutgers Preparatory School (Independent College Preparatory School), Somerset, NJ September 1988 –June 2002
WORKSHOPS PRESENTED
“Counseling the Bisexual Community”presented to the counseling staff at the Institute for Personal Growth, Highland Park, NJ, September, 2003.
“Working With Polyamorous Patients“ presented at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey during its annual,week-long human sexuality program for medical students and other graduate level health care students, Piscataway, NJ, January, 2003, and January, 2002.
“Clinical Issues of Polyamorous People”presented to the graduate counseling human sexuality class at Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia, PA, October, 2002, and October, 2003, at the “Building Bridges II” Conference of the Institute for Twenty-First Century Relationships,Washington, D.C., October, 2002, and to the counseling staff at the Institute for Personal Growth, Highland Park, NJ, April, 2002.
“Polyamory 101“ presented to the undergraduate human sexuality class at Montgomery County Community College, Pottstown, PA, April, 2003
“Counseling the Bisexual Community“ presented at the New Jersey Counseling Association Annual Conference, May 4, 2004,and
at the National Association of Social Workers –NJ Chapter,LGBT Issues Third Annual Conference, October 30, 2004.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
National Association of Social Workers (NASW)
American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT)
Licensed Clinical Social Worker in New Jersey (lic. # 44SC050301400) and New York (lic. # 078145-1)
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