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BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Janice Cohn is a psychotherapist with a doctorate in clinical social work. She's been dedicated to helping adults and children cope with grief, loss and life transitions and has lectured widely on these topics. Additionally, Dr. Cohn works extensively with people in the arts, an interest fueled by her experiences as an author, newspaper columnist and playwright.

Her former newspaper column for the Family Times Section of The Washington Times, which focused on raising compassionate children, ran for over two years and reached approximately half a million people.  She is a former Presidential Faculty Appointee to the Columbia University Continuing Education Seminar on Death and Dying, and former chairperson of the Multidisciplinary Bereavement Committee of Newark Beth Israel Medical Center.

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Dr. Cohn has served as a special consultant to the Family Division of the New Jersey Superior Court in Ocean County, New Jersey, focusing on the emotional needs of children and parents during the process of separation and divorce.  She has also developed, for the courts, a special parent education program and accompanying video for divorcing parents.  In conjunction with this project, she has written an educational handbook, Surviving the Pain of Divorce:  Eight Steps for Parents and Children, which has been distributed throughout the state via the family court system. 

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