• The Perinatal Experience; an exploration into the psychological, emotional and social development of the unborn child
• The Normative Developmental Crisis in Adoption; a look at the special circumstances that adoption adds to the developmental process
• Why Adoptees Search, Motives and More; the search as a healing process
• The Lifelong Issues in Adoption; issues for adoptees, first parents and adoptive parents
• A Treatment Model for Clinicians; turning crisis into empowering and learning experiences for the adoptive family
• Trauma and Treatment for the Constellation; a look at the role of disenfranchised grief and how it prevents healing
• Adoption- A Lifelong Perspective; an educational framework for the lifespan issues in adoption
• Strategies for Adoptive Parents; shaping the connection, creating change
• Working Therapeutically with the Attachment Injured Child

As a presenter at national adoption conferences and retreats, I have presented:

• Concerned United Birthparent’s Retreat, Redondo Beach, CA – Grief-The 5 Letter Unspoken Word
• American Adoption Conference, Washington, DC – The Psychopathology Behind Adoptee Parricide
• Concerned United Birthparents Retreat, Redondo Beach, CA – Disenfranchised Grief, Where It Comes From and How To Heal
• National Adoption Conference, Los Angeles, CA – Adoptee Parricide, Trauma and Treatment
• LAGPA Conference, Los Angeles, CA – LGBGT Adoptions, What You Need To Know
• American Adoption Congress, Las Vegas, NV – Countertransference for the Adopted Therapist
• Concerned United Birthparents Retreat, Carlsbad, CA – Panel of Adoption Mental Health Providers
• American Adoption Congress, Los Angeles, CA – Support Group for Adoption Competent Therapist

Educational Instruction:

• Westmark School, Tarzana, CA – School Issues for the Adopted Child
• Valley Trauma Center, Van Nuys, CA – APSS Training-Healing the Attachment Injured Child
• Vista Del Mar, Los Angeles, CA – The Normative Developmental Crisis in Adoptive Families
• Children’s Bureau Foster Family Agency, Los Angeles, CA – Adoptive Parenting for Foster & Adoptive Parents
• Children’s Bureau Foster Family Agency, Los Angeles, CA – Working Therapeutically with the Foster & Adopted Child
• Temple Judea, Tarzana, CA – Parenting Your Adoptive Child
• Los Angeles County Psychological Association – Understanding Psychological Traumas in Adoption
• Sunday Salon Series – What Psychologists Need Know to Treat Members of the Constellation

College and University Teaching:

• Ventura College, Ventura, CA – Adoption-The Lifelong Issues
• University of California, Los Angeles, CA – Adoption- The Lifelong Issues
• Moorpark College, Moorpark, CA-Adoption – The Lifelong Issues