Mary Jane is a therapist offering individual, marital and family counseling to reduce distress, improve functioning and increase life/relationship satisfaction. She is a coach providing personal, career and dispute resolution coaching and a consultant to local law firms regarding cases involving questions of a behavioral or psychological nature as well as a facilitator for CASA Kids Voice Program offered to separated and divorcing parents.

Her corporate experience is in the fields of mental health and corrections as well as management overseeing staff and operations of 3 psychiatric residential facilities. She has also worked as a clinical supervisor for counselors and psychologists in training and assessment of intellectual, cognitive and personality functioning.

A group facilitator around issues of depression, parenting, social skills, stress management, Mary Jane is also an educator offering seminars, classes and public forums in community, corporate and academic settings in learned optimism, stress management, raising resilient children, school bullying and violence, parenting, co-parenting and blending families, effective anger management for youth, preventing employee burnout, embracing cultural diversity in the workplace and recognizing and preventing hostile work environments.

Mary Jane has MA in Psychology and a PH.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She is a licensd Psychologist in Missouri, CASA-trained parent facilitator trained in professional coaching. She is a member, American Psychological Association and the Collaborative Law Institute of Missouri.