Welcome To The Stepfamily Foundation

Important Information

Stepfamily Foundation has moved. Our new address is below:

Jeannette Lofas, Ph.D., LCSW
310 West 85th St. # 1B
New York, NY 10024
(212)877-3244

Please update your records with the new information.

Upcoming Events

Nationwide Skype Couple's Group

Successfully manage your blended, stepfamily

Couples learn to be a team

$175 per couple for 5 sessions
Mondays 9:00 pm to 10:30pm.
Begins June 14th
Led by Dr. Jeannette Lofas, LCSW and June Taylor, LMSW

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New York City (Upper West Side) Stepmothers' Group

Managing the kids and your partner

$125 for 5 sessions.
Mondays 7:30pm to 9:00pm
Begins June 14th
Led by Dr. Jeannette Lofas, LCSW and June Taylor, LMSW
Reserve your place now by calling (212)877-3244
Or e-mail us at stepfamily@aol.com

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Become A Certified Stepfamily Foundation Counselor

October 23 & 24 2010, Saturday and Sunday 10 am – 5 pm

Pre registration $850 one month before seminar, $1000 thereafter

The Stepfamily Foundation
310 West 85th St., #1B
New York, NY 10024

This Seminar will promote and credential you to become a guide in creating successful 21st Century families and stepfamilies.
Led by Jeannette Lofas, PhD, LCSW, Founder & President Receive our Certificate— Be promoted on our website. Help others with your knowledge!

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Who we are and how we work

The Stepfamily Foundation, Inc., headquartered in New York City is a not for profit founded in 1975. Our mission is to assist you in making your family, as it is now, function well. We have created a successful management system for the stepfamily – who unfortunately, is the unacknowledged majority.

We address the issues of; organization, partnership, couple strength, conflict of loyalties, roles, discipline, the ex spouse and much, much more. We also serve faith based organizations and individuals.

We are the only organization to devote ourselves solely to these issues for over 30 years. We have identified the classic dynamics and have established proven solutions. Our work is supported by substantial research involving more than 3000 people.

Need Help Now?

  1. Stepfamily
  2. Single Parents
  3. Remarriage
  4. First Family - Our research relates that our methods also apply to the original family

We provide 20 minute free consultation by phone. After that, an hour rate is charged. Call (212)877-3244 for more information. It is our experience that families can't do it alone. Coaching is needed. Try it!!!

 

Jeannette Lofas Ph. D. LCSW receiving award from
President Clinton and Congress on
National Parents Day 

"For outstanding efforts in strengthening
step relationships across America"

“No other counselors have been able to help me STEP BY STEP with what to do with my boys.

Our relationship is 150% better since our work with Stepfamily”

- Jeff R. April 2007, New Hampshire

Traditional marriage and family counselors are trained to work with the biological family. They are not trained in the complexities of the stepfamily. The result, 66% fail. 84% of Stepfamily Foundation, Inc. clients succeed.

64% of families today live in some form of divorced and/or stepfamily relationship. They are:

  • The Original Family
    • Husband and Wife. Recent research proves that our methodology also works well with the original couple.
  • The Divorced Family
    • Single parents, parents who visit, and their new partners.
  • The Re-Coupled, or Stepfamily
    • Formed when one are both partners have children from prior whether these children are residential or visiting.

    • We make it work!

    We offer counseling in the following areas:

    • Mediation
    • Divorce
    • Custody Change
    • Pre-Nuptials
    • Co-Parenting Agreements with ex spouses - The parents of children.
    • Family Therapy - For first families

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Dr.Lofas Article for Remarriagemag.com

The Stepfamily Must Become a Team to Survive

by Jeannette Lofas, Ph.D., LCSW

Stepfamilies are one of the predominate forms of family in America today. Sadly, though, two out of three of these families fail. Typically, most remarried families complain of the chaos, disorder, and disrespect they encounter in their new family unit....

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