Jill Shugart, MA, MFT 510-847-4324 jshugart@gmail.com
Ca. Lic.#MFT32528

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.

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.