Founder and CEO/COO of the Professional Coaches Association, PCA, and Coaching Connection Forum--Life Coaching Consultant: providing assessments, treatment outlines, and supportive services to Coaching Professionals working with the emotionally challenged client--Professional Individual, Family, and Group Counseling and Therapeutic Services in psychological pathology: Axis II disorders and trauma therapy--State Certified in Grief and Loss, Substance Abuse and Addiction, Parent Educator, Child Development--Experience in Child Protective Services, working with adult offenders of child sexual, physical, and emotional abuse, court testimony, case management, Court mandated reports, etc."Having worked as a helping professional for many years, I understand the inherent needs of such professionals. The helping professional chooses his/her career with a great backing force of a passion to help others. Their work often is underappreciated, low-pay, and demands an ability to disengage in order to protect a helper's self energy. I founded the PCA as a means to provide coaching professionals the services and support that they deservedly need to excel in their chosen profession."Specialties: --life-coach counselor and therapist (self-employed)--social work with the State working with abused and neglected children and the Court's for reunification of the child with his/her offending parents (recovered)--Pres. and Vice. Pres. of a non-profit organization in the upper Los Angeles area--written numerous publications; public and media presentations; State presentations of research