Sara Stanich, a financial expert, will be giving us a primer on retirement assets and common errors made when couples are divorcing regarding those assets. She will also be available for questions, so please come with any questions you might have about specific retirement asset issues.

If you wish to attend this CE, please email your RSVP to members@fdmcgny.org, and you will be added to our list of attendees.

Sara Stanich began her career in the financial industry after receiving an MBA and working in corporate marketing for 12 years. Drawn to do something more entrepreneurial, she became a financial advisor to combine her interest and knowledge of finances, aptitude for numbers and love for helping people. Divorcing couples are often in need of financial advice and analysis to help them parse through various divorce settlement options. Sara works with clients, attorneys and mediators to prepare detailed budgets and analyze the long term implications of multiple settlement options.  Her calming presence quickly puts her clients at ease while helping them to understand the options and arrive at suitable divorce settlement decisions.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Couples Therapists & Mediators: A Dialogue
Thursday, MARCH 29 * 9:30 AM to 12:00 PM
City Bar of NY * 42 West 44th Street
FREE to FDMC members * $25 for non-members

FDMC is pleased to present a panel discussion with esteemed couples’ therapists, moderated by our own Kate Bar-Tur. Panelists will include Jill Bellinson, clinical psychologist, Stephen McDonnell, EFT therapist,  and Ira Moses, psychoanalytic therapist.

This will be the first panel discussion FDMC has presented, and we hope it will provide a valuable forum in which we, as mediators, can learn from the our therapist colleagues about how common couples’ dynamics can present themselves in the mediative environment. We will be exploring our panelists’ views and suggestions about how we might address common issues, such as the difference in motivations to obtain a divorce, and our own internal reactions to different clients.

Please join us for this fantastic opportunity to learn from our couples’ therapists colleagues. This will be an interactive dialogue, so please feel free to bring your questions, concerns and ideas!

If you wish to attend this CE, please email your RSVP to members@fdmcgny.org, and you will be added to our list of attendees.

Jill Bellinson, PhD, is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Manhattan, working with children, adolescents, adults, and couples. She teaches and supervises at the William Alanson White Institute, and in the Child and Adolescent Training programs of Adelphi University, Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychotherapy, and the New York Institute for Psychotherapy Training. She supervises in the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Programs of the City University of New York and Teachers’ College at Columbia University. Dr. Bellinson is on the board of the Division 39 of the American Psychological Association, where she is president of the Child and Adolescent Section, and serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy. She is author of Children’s Use of Board Games in Psychotherapy and numerous papers and presentations on psychodynamic therapy.

Stephen McDonnell, LCSW, practices in midtown with individuals and couples. He is a certified therapist and supervisor for Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for couples.  He has been working in EFT since 2007.  He is one of the founding members of NY Center for EFT.  He graduated from Wurzweiler School of Social Work, Yeshiva Univ., in 1994, and worked for the Nassau County Department of Drug and Alcohol Addiction as a Trauma Specialist and Trainer, and Clinical Supervisor in the Alcohol Outpatient Unit.  He has been in private practice for 10 years, working psychodynamically with clients.  He is currently training in Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP).

Ira Moses, Ph.D., is  the Director of Training at the William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Institute in New York City; Supervisor at the Westchester Center of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy; and faculty member and supervisor at the China-American Psychoanalytic Association. Private Practice in Individual and Couples therapy.

We look forward to seeing you there!