Professional Work Experience:

• Therapist: Agape Counseling Associates
• Preventative Program Social Worker: Catholic Family Center
• Supervisor: Catholic Family Center
• Manager of Sexual Abuse Treatment Program: Catholic Family Center
• Chairperson: Monroe County Child Sexual Abuse Assault Resource Council
• Bilingual Examiner and Child Protective Services Trainee: Monroe County Dept. of Social Services

Education:

• MSW: Syracuse University, 1980
• BA in Sociology and Psychology: Houghton College, 1972

Areas of Interest:

• Family mental health
• Child welfare issues
• Child sexual abuse recovery
• Eating disorders and self injuries behavior
• Cross-cultural work

Professional Memberships:

• National Association of Social Workers (NASW)
• National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH)

Topics for Workshops, Seminars, and Other Speaking:

• Prevention, Identification, and Treatment of Child Sexual Abuse
• Adolescent and Adult Sex Offender Assessment and Relapse
• Prevention Treatment Model
• Death and Dying and Related Grief
• Parenting and Child Development
• Family Life Stages
• Sexual Brokenness and Healing
• Dating and Marital Issues
• Domestic Violence
• Eating Disorders

Personal:

• Married
• Bilingual in Spanish