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

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.

"Counseling the Bisexual Community" presented 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)