Summary:
Jeannette Lofas founded the Stepfamily Foundation in 1975. It was the first organization in the world devoted solely to the problems and challenges encountered in step relationships. She has personally, or by telephone, counseled thousands and has trained over 10,000 helping professionals. Lofas is the recognized leader in the field of step relationships. She was the first to describe the stepfamily's specific dynamics. She has developed the Lofas Family Management Method. Research indicates her method results in an 84% success rate.
Family Mediation:
Certified Family Mediator child custody, and pre-nuptial agreements. Member of The American Association for Family Conciliation and Courts, the Center for Family and Divorce Mediation. Centers are in New York City and in Eastern Long Island.
Professional History:
Stepfamily Foundation, Inc., - Founder and President, 1975-Present; CBS, NBC, ABC TV –Reporter & Film Critic; Ivan Tors Films - Producer; Whitney Museum NYC- New American Film Series Co Founder; Radio Free Europe - On Air Reporter, US, Europe, Tokyo. Lofas is a recognized media personality and public speaker. She has appeared on: The Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, Oprah Winfrey, Larry King, and featured in: The New York Times, Vogue, and New York Magazine. Lofas hosts a weekly cable television show, "Family Matters."
Publications:
Living In Step, with Ruth Roosevelt, McGraw-Hill, 1976; How to Be a Stepparent, Nightingale Connant Audio Book, 1986; He's OK, She's OK: Honoring the Differences Between Men & Women, Tzedakah, 1995; Family Rules, Kensington Books 1998. Stepparenting 3rd Edition May 2004, Citadel Books the largest selling book of its kind.
Awards and Speeches:
Keynote Speaker for U.S. Family Service Centers, Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD; Speaker at White House Conference On the Family; Keynote Speech "The State of the Family” given in Heidelberg, Germany for the U.S. Armed Forces in Europe; Speaker at Family Court Judges Association; "The New Family: Step Relationships" Chautauqua Institution; "Women, Remarriage and Money" Financial Women’s Association; Keynote Speaker at the Women's Federation of World Peace; "The 21st Century Family" NY Employee Assistance Association; Smart Marriage Conference Presenter, Two Day Seminar Buenos Aires, Fundacion XXI; All Souls Church Lecture Series; Guest Professor at Long Island University "Counseling the Changing American Family;" "Woman of the Month" Good Housekeeping Magazine.
Corporate Consulting:
Merrill Lynch, Pfizer, International Business Machines, AT&T.
Degrees:
Ph. D., Westbrook University; Fordham University, M.S.W., L.C.S.W.; University of Michigan, B.A; University of Geneva, Interpreter's School, French, German and English; University of Vienna.
Memberships:
Clinical Social Work Association, New York State Society for Clinical Social Work Inc., Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, New York State Dispute Resolution Association, American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, Employee Assistance Professionals Association New York City Chapter, New York Women’s Agenda, National Association for Female Executives.
Programs Completed:
Master Practitioner of Erickson Clinical Hypnosis, Certified EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing),; Week long Seminar with John Gottman, Ph.D., and Howard Markman, Ph.D.; Grief counseling for couples and individuals.
***Fluent in German and French: ability to communicate in Spanish and Swedish*** |
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