For more than 25 years, Jill Shugart, MA, MFT,
has been helping individuals,parents and couples
build more satisfying personal and family lives.

JIll's work--as a psychotherapist; as a marriage and family therapist; as a preschool director; as a parenting consultant; and as a parenting workshop leader--
has provided significant assistance to people
seeking to achieve results that matter----           

•  living more joyful, fulfilling lives
• managing the stresses of living in today’s competitive, materialistic culture
• learning the art of effective communication
• repairing troubled relationships
• developing family harmony
• helping children realize their capabilities and function with greater self-confidence
• creating new confidence for parents in raising their children to be self-reliant individuals.

Special Skills

•  Extensive knowledge and experience in normal child and family development

• Expertise in collaborating with clients in a way that allows them to solve their own problems

• Dynamic, experienced workshop presenter


• Utilization of practical and proven information which people can immediately implement in their daily lives


• Ability to sharpen people's insights into the beliefs and attitudes that keep their ineffective behavior in place


• A full life experience which enables Jill to draw upon examples from her own life as a parent and a partner to illustrate how positive change can happen.

Biographical Highlights

• Currently in private practice with offices in Berkeley and Walnut Creek, working with individuals, couples and families.

• Former co-director of the Gan Ilan Preschool, in Lafayette.

• MA's in Clinical Psychology and in Early Childhood Education.

• Before opening her practice in 1992, Jill was an early childhood education specialist and director of three separate pre-school programs.

• Trained as a couples therapist at the Couples Institute in Menlo Park, developing advanced skills in significantly helping troubled relationships.

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