Beyond Consequences Instructors
Instructors have undergone rigorous training with Heather T. Forbes, LCSW
in order to support you in our local community. You will find the contact
information and specialization for each instructor within your state listed below.
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***The listed instructors have completed the Beyond Consequences Intensive Two-Day
Training program but are NOT directly associated with the Beyond Consequences Institute.***
Kathy Travis, M.A.Ed.
Bentonville, AR
katybe5@sbcglobal.net
Susan D. Walker
Northwest Arkansas
susanwalker@arkansasattachment.com
Specialty: Family nurturing specialist, developemental specialist, parent educator, and special education teacher.
www.arkansasattachment.com
Specialty: Working with teens, foster families, adoptive families, and grandparents of autistic children, etc.
www.arkansasattachment.com
Melissa Broadwell
Chatsworth, CA
robandmjb@yahoo.com
Flora Colao, LCSW
San Francisco, CA
PH: 212-627-2332
ffflora@earthlink.net
Christina Dickinson
Ontario, CA
Inland Empire Area
PH: 909-923-0329
cdljc@msn.com
Marilyn Lewis, MFT
Healing 4 Homes
San Diego, CA
PH: 858-492-9985
marilyn4solutions@san.rr.com
Dana McKnight Flentroy, MSW
McFlent's Educational Consulting
Sacramento/So. Lake Tahoe Area, CA
dana@yourfamilywhisperer.com
June Mikkelsen, LMFT
Been There Adoption Counseling
Palo Alto, CA
San Francisco Mid Peninsula Region
PH: 408-891-7904
junemikkelsen@gmail.com
Patty Robles, MSW
Health & Human Services
San Diego, CA
PH: 619-409-3166
patty.robles@sdcounty.ca.gov
Janet Shick, MA
Intern Marriage & Family Therapist
(#46166)
Temecula, CA
PH: 951-551-6968
janetshick@yahoo.com
Ashna Vohra
Casey Family Programs
San Francisco, CA
avohra@casey.org
Specialty: n/a
Specialty: Experience working with traumatized children and their families.
Specialty: Working with foster, adoptive, and blended families.
Specialty: Attachment parenting, classes/groups, phone and in-home individual and family coaching, and professional counseling services.
www.healing4homes.com
Specialty: Working with traumatized and wounded children with behavioral issues.
www.yourfamilywhisperer.com
Specialty: Pre/Post-adoption support and counseling. Please see website for more information.
www.beenthere-adoptiontherapist.com
Specialty: Adoption social worker, trainer and parent educator; foster and adoptive parents.
Supervisor: David Libert, PhD (PSY 13487)
Specialty: n/a
Debbie Burmeister, LPC
Littleton, CO
PH: 303-667-4783 or
202-794-7008 ext. 2
dburmeister2001@yahoo.com
Sue E. Coffey, LCSW
Believing in Kids & Families, LLC
Littleton, CO
PH: 303-794-7008 ext. 1
bikafcounseling@aol.com
Amy-Beth Fischoff, MS.Ed.
Boulder/Lafayette/Louisville, CO
PH: 303-938-9128
amyfischoff@comcast.net
Michele L. Gerard, Ph.D.
Boulder, CO
PH: 303-939-9650
braindr2@aol.com
Judy Hansen, MA
Westminster/Louisville, CO
PH: 720-635-7974
appt@counselingwithjudy.com
Jane L. Johnson, LCSW
Fort Collins, CO
PH: 970-266-2678 ext. 3
Linda Litzenberger
Pueblo, CO
PH: 719-595-0124
swaymok@aol.com
Anne Maxwell, LCSW, RPT-S
Child & Family Play Therapy Center
Boulder/Denver, CO
PH: 303-467-2228
anne@childfamilyplaytherapy.com
Carrie Natale, LPC
Red Chair Counseling
Denver, CO
PH: 303-868-1859
carrienatale@yahoo.com
Geoff Nelson, LPC
Brighton Family Counceling, LLC
Brighton/N. Denver Area, CO
PH: 720-523-3043
bfc.gan@gmail.com
Rhonda Robinson, M.Ed., LPC
Lafayette, CO
PH: 720-890-7207
rhonda@flatironscounseling.com
Theresa Ruscio, LCSW, CAC III, RPT
North Denver Metro Suburbs
PH: 303-464-8105
tmruscio@aol.com
Beki An Sciacca, MA
Radical Acceptance Parenting
Boulder, CO
PH: 630-841-0458
bekisciacca@gmail.com
Laura Updike
Southeast Mental Health Services
La Junta, CO
PH: 719-384-5446
Specialty: Working with children and their families, trauma, and EMDR.
www.bikaf.com
Specialty: Working with children and teens with trauma, grandparents, and children and families with sensory processing challenges.
www.bikaf.com
Specialty: Working with families with children of all ages. Special training in infant, toddler, and preschooler issues.
Specialty: Working with children, adolescents and adults with histories of trauma, learning challenges, adoptive families, divorce, parentings, and help with recovery from neurological conditions.
MicheleGerardPhD.com
Specialty: Working with families, couples and adolescents in communication and parenting, especially those who are having difficulty adjusting due to multiple cross cultural moves.
Specialty: Counseling for children and their families.
Specialty: Working with biological and foster families.
Specialty: Working with children of all ages and their families, adoption, trauma, and difficult behaviors.
www.childfamilyplaytherapy.com
Specialty: Working with children and adults who have experienced trauma; working with foster and adoptive families.
Specialty: Working with parents and children of all ages that are exhibiting severe behavioral issues.
www.BrightonFamilyCounseling.com
Specialty: Working with children from 18 months and older; extensive experience working with adoption and foster families.
Specialty: Adolescents, Adults, Families, Step-families, and Beyond Consequences Parenting Classes.
www.theresaruscio.com
Specialty: Helping parents and caregivers to develop emotional regulation skills through education, stress reduction and healing of developmental/trauma wounds.
www.radicalacceptanceparenting.com
Specialty: Early childhood specialist, youth and family services, foster and adoptive families, trauma, abuse, aggression, behavioral issues, attachment, bonding, and family relationship building, etc.
www.semhs.org
Bill Chasse, LCSW
Hartford, CT
PH: 860-838-0445
bchasse3@gmail.com
Sherry Poff
Avon, CT
PH: 860-841-7943
smpoff2000@yahoo.com
Specialty: Child and Family Therapist specializing in support to foster and
adoptive families. Beyond Consequences Parenting Classes and parent support groups.
Specialty: Regularly scheduled parenting classes, please contact for current dates!
Gloria Ayala-St. Charles, M.S., LMHC
Private Practice
Coral Springs, FL
PH: 954-752-0460
Shirley Ellis
Tampa, FL
PH: 813-997-1165
shirleyellis64@yahoo.com
Debby Nickens, MS, RMHCI
Melbourne, FL
PH: 321-723-8233
debbynickens@gmail.com
Jessica Slater
Cocoa, FL
PH: 321-458-5663
slaterj99@yahoo.com
Specialty: Works with individuals, couples and families. Help parents to develop emotional regulation skills through education, stress reduction and improved communication.
Specialty: n/a
Specialty: Mental Health Councelor working with children & their families, especially with children who have trauma histories.
Specialty: Working with families in the area of Attachment, resulting from significant trauma; working with and inspiring families to recognize each other as “a person” rather than “a problem”; looking beyond behavior.
Freda D. Doxy, LPC
The Doxey Group, Inc.
Stone Mountain, GA
PH: 404-447-0088
fredadoxey@yahoo.com
Wendy Haus Hanevold, Ph.D.
Private Practice
Atlanta/Roswell, GA
PH: 404-325-1614
whanevold@bellsouth.net
Teresa Tang
Go Green Health Solutions
Athens, GA
PH: 706-424-3976
taksingtang@yahoo.com
Specialty: Provides individual, family and group therapy as well as workshop and seminars on parenting, anger management, and stress management.
Specialty: Attachment and emotionally focused therapy with couples, families, children and adolescents woven together with adoptioin, foster care, kinship and remarriage.
Speciatly: Adoptive families, natural/alternative approaches to family health.
Elaine Spicer, LCSW
Gary, IN
PH: 219-512-2642
elaine@spicers.us
Specialty: Working with adolescents, foster, adoptive and biological families.
Therese "Teri" Groves, LCSW-BACS
Mandeville, LA
PH: 985-373-5390
yogat@i-55.com
Specialty: Working with families, adolescents, and children dealing with trauma and adjustment concerns.
Marti Howard
Auburn, ME
PH: 207-784-3929
mohoward62@aol.com
Specialty: Parent education, foster and adoptive families.
Margo Chapski, ORT/L, M.O.M.
Western MA (Springfield Area)
machapski@yahoo.com
Specialty: BCLC instructor. Classes presented upon request. Support for adoptive families with RAD, trauma histories, PTSD, attachment and bonding concerns.
Josie Kimball
MA Education
MA Counseling LLPC
Brownstown, MI
connectedfirst@aol.com
Specialty: Working with teachers and parents experiencing challenges in children's behavior. Working with school aged children with or without histories of medical or family trauma.
Barbara Karli
Dakota County Social Services
Apple Valley, MN
PH: 952-891-7371 or
507-339-7131
barbara.karli@co.dakota.mn.us
Kathy Porter, MS, LP
Bluestem Center
Rochester, MN
PH: 507-282-1009
kporter@bluestemcenter.com
Dave & Gerry Seaburg
Lindstrom, MN
PH: 651-257-9250
gseaburg@frontiernet.net
Specialty: Foster care licensing social worker, trainer, and parent educator.
Specialty: Working with children, parents and families with history of abuse, neglect and trauma. Creating children's trauma stories to help them process their life experiences.
www.bluestemcenter.com
Specialty: n/a
Debra Clark
St. Louis, MO
PH: 314-732-6557
clarkhouse4011@yahoo.com
Renee Gebhart, LCSW, MSW
St. Louis, MO
PH: 314-276-1680
renee@reneegebhart.com
Ken Thom, MS, LPC
Maryville, MO
PH: 660-562-2531
thomkt@earthlink.net
Kerry Wood
MO Alliance for Children & Families, LLC
St. Louis, MO
PH: 314-630-7823 or
314-991-1737 ext. 226
kwood@ma-cf.org
Specialty: n/a
Specialty: Therapy with individuals, couples and families including relationship coaching.
www.reneegebhart.com
Specialty: n/a
Specialty: Working with foster families; foster home placement specialist.
Stephanie Bachmann-Mattei
Hammonton, NJ
stephanie@consciouslyparenting.com
Deborah A. Beasley, ACPI, CCPF
Pitman, NJ
PH: 609-970-1100
DeborahBeasley20@yahoo.com
Philip Beasley
Pitman, NJ
PH: 856-256-9474
pbeasley@just-access.com
Specialty: Biological, foster and adoptive families, transracial adoptions, parenting classes, seminars, conferences and teleclass series based on the principles of BCI and NVC (Nonviolent Communication)
www.cnvc.org
Specialty: Certified Parenting Coach/Parent Educator working with adoptive, foster, biological families in the BCI model. Provides intensive parent/clinician trainings and support groups professionally at local agencies. Phone coaching/in-home support family services.
www.TogetherAtLastFamily.com
Specialty: n/a
Deborah Barkoff
Albuquerque, NM
PH: 505-280-2518
dbarkoff@msn.com
Raylah Etlantus, MA, NCC, LPCC
Corrales, NM
PH: 505-385-6364
rayla.etlantus@comcast.net
Specialty: Beyond Consequences in schools and raising the adopted child.
www.theheartsconnection.com
Specialty: n/a
Flora Colao, LCSW
New York City, NY
PH: 212-627-2332
ffflora@earthlink.net
Specialty: Traumatized children and their families (Only in NYC a few days per month.)
BJ Howell
CEYA Therapeutic Services
Raleigh, NC
PH: 919-830-5515
bjhowell@live.com
Specialty: Helping young adults and their families heal from trauma, PTSD, anxiety or related issues. Provides empowerment workshops for young adults and parents.
www.EnrichYoungAdults.com
Sharon L. Riley
Spring Haven Inc.
Orrville, OH
PH: 330-359-6100
sriley22@zoominternet.net
Specialty: Working with children, teens, grandparents, and self-injury clientele.
Kelly James, PhD, LPC-S
Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor
Foundational Solutions, PLLC
Tulsa, OK
PH: 918-637-5533
drkellyajames@yahoo.com
Michelle McCraw
Weatherford, OK
PH: 580-774-2138
mamccraw@classicnet.net
Specialty: Children, adolescents, adoptive and biological families and individuals.
Specialty: Working with teens, foster families, adoptive families, grandparents and autistic children, etc.
Bethany Griffin-Shetler
Silverton, OR
PH: 503-419-4151
bethanylifejourney@gmail.com
Meredith Krugel, RN, LCSW
Roseburg, OR
PH: 541-464-3916
mkrugel@msn.com
Specialty: Adoption, foster and biological families. Handling severe negative behaviors, reparing damaged relationships, healing trauma. Offers online parenting classes, in-home support, and phone coaching.
Specialty: Working with early childhood mental health.
Meredith Mustard
Parenting Coach
Villanova, PA
mmustard@verizon.net
Specialty: n/a
Jane Fortune, LPC
Dillon-Florence, SC
PH: 540-353-3368
janefortune@roadrunner.com
Specialty: Working with the family in home with difficult to manage children, in schools, day care providers, and foster care agencies.
Jasmine Buseman
Sioux Falls, SD
l_buseman@hotmail.com
Patty Veatch, MA, LSWA
Children's Home Society
Sioux Falls, SD
PH: 605-965-3104
patty.veatch@chssd.org
Specialty: n/a
Specialty: Working with families who have children with a trauma background, including foster and adoptive families. Provides BCI parenting classes
Michele Cermak, LCSW
Cal Farley's Family Resource Center
Arlington, TX
PH: 817-461-5192
michelecermak@calfarley.org
Deborah Chelette-Wilson,
MHR, CTS, LPC
Country Pathways, PLLC
Winnsboro, TX
PH: 903-365-2198
dcw@peoplescom.net
Melisa Dean
Fort Worth, TX
PH: 817-253-4095
mdean2662@yahoo.com
Christie Minich
Wylie, TX
mikeandchristie@minichfamily.us
Kathy Smedley, LPC, LMFT, NCC
Northeast Texas Child Advocacy Center
Winnsboro, TX
PH: 903-629-7588
ksmedley@netcac.org
Kathryn Zentner, LCSW
Austin, TX
PH: 512-918-9683
kathryn@ourshiningstars.com
Ginny Zobeck
Family Guidance & Outreach Center
Lubbock, TX
PH: 806-239-4994
tedngin@suddenlink.net
Specialty: n/a
Specialty: Trauma, attachment and loss with teens, foster families, adults, grandparents, and adoptive parents.
www.integratingtrauma.com
Specialty: Foster and adoptive parents.
Specialty: Parent Support Group
Specialty: Provides adolescent, adult, marriage and family therapy.
Specialty: Family therapist working with parents and their adoptive/biological children who display difficult behaviors. Primarily ages 2-12.
Specialty: Christian parenting classes.
Kimberly Best Johnson, MA
Resident in Counseling
Christian Counseling Services
Richmond, VA
PH: 804-254-2580
counseling@cfaith.com
Donna Boggs, LCSW
Commonwealth Catholic Charities
Norton, VA
PH: 276-679-1195
donna_boggs@cccofva.org
Lisa A. Boyles
Quinton, VA
PH: 804-314-2462
lisaboyles@verizon.net
LaDonna Hall, LCSW
Commonwealth Catholic Charities
Norton, VA
PH: 276-679-1195
LaDonna_Hall@cccofva.org
Catherine Swiney, MSW
Richmond Behavioral Health Authority
Richmond, VA
PH: 804-814-6175
swineyc_gcr@yahoo.com
Wilma Vance
Coeburn, VA
PH: 888-631-4441
wilma@consciouslyparenting.com
Specialty: Working with children with challenging behaviors in-home and outpatient setting. Parent Education, Pre-Adoption Assessments, Couples and Family Therapy.
Specialty: Working with foster and adoptive families and families with children who have special needs.
Specialty: n/a
Specialty: Working with foster and adoptive families and families with children who have special needs.
Specialty: n/a
Specialty: Teens, foster families, adoptive families (pre and post), biological families and grandparents. Training directly in aggression, being present, lying, stealing, etc.
Kimberly Erickson-Nichols
Heart to Heart Healing
Onalaska, WI
PH: 608-780-7422
kimberly@heart-to-hearthealing.com
Leslie Judkins
Amery, WI
lj525@pressenter.com
Specialty: Working with teens and their families, foster families, adoptive families and grandparents raining their granchildren, custody work, parenting classes and seminars/conferences.
www.heart-to-hearthealing.com
Specialty: n/a
Sally Flintoff
Perth, Western Australia
sally@consciouslyparenting.com.au
Specialty: Working with families who have children from a trauma background including foster and adoptive families, parenting courses and parent coaching.
www.consciouslyparenting.com.au
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