Education: Doctor of Education in Counseling Psychology ('77) from the College of William & Mary; post-doctoral studies at the Georgetown Family Center in Washington, DC with Dr. Murray Bowen

Clinical Specialty: The Bowen Theory of Family Emotional Functioning

Theoretical Expertise: The Theory of Living Systems

EAP Consultative Specialty: The 'Workplace' including board of directors and other group systems dynamics; stress management and its health imperatives; topics in community psychology

Therapeutic Experience: More than 20 years in outpatient community mental health and private practice in Williamsburg, Virginia

Consultative Experience: Author of many family studies publications from 1970-1998; appearances on network television and public radio; mental health columnist for various Virginia newspapers; workshop presenter and keynote speaker for local, state and national conferences and conventions in social work, psychology, counselor education, primary school education, higher education, nursing, emergency rescue services, medicine, and law; long-time systems consultant for hospital ER's and ICU's and local governments; psychology in the courtroom consultations to Virginia courts

Higher Education Teaching Experience: Adjunt Faculty positions with Old Dominion University (Norfolk, VA); College of William & Mary (Williamsburg, VA); Eastern State Hospital Psychiatric Residency Program (Williamsburg, VA); Thomas Nelson Community College (Hampton, VA and Williamsburg campuses); and Pellissippi State Technical Community College (PSTCC) in Knoxville and Maryville, TN

Community Activism: Active on numerous board of directors of human service agencies from 1975-1990 in Tidewater Virginia; active in local government citizen committies in James City County, VA; long time President of the Board of the Williamsburg Area Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (S.P.C.A.) 1979-1992; Past President of the Virginia Federation of Humane Societies; experienced Virginia wildlife rehabilitator; member of the Board of Directors of the Smoky Mountain Animal Care Foundation (SMACF) in Blount County, TN; member of the Board of Directors of Mountain Miatas of East TN