I speak and facilitate workshops on topics including:

• College readiness and success, both in and out of the classroom, to audiences of high school and college students and their families.

• Crafting a more creative life as an academic

• Work/life balance

• Caregiving and grief

• Compassion fatigue

• Body image

• Managing complicated conversations both in intimate relationships as well as within the structure of work and organizations

Possessing a specialty in interpersonal violence, I have worked in the field for decades:

• I’ve been a counselor and clinical supervisor in abuse intervention programs, working with abusers and survivors

• I continue to serve as an expert consultant in cases of domestic and sexual violence

• I’m a member of the Board of Directors for Emerge, the first abuser intervention program founded in the United States and based in Boston

• I offer talks and workshops on domestic and sexual violence, as well as about caregiving in the context of trauma, for businesses, community organizations, hospitals, places of worship, professional development seminars, K-12 schools, colleges and universities, etc.