BIO

Marilyn J. Ladin, LCSW-S, BCD, CART, Certified Gerontologist, End of Life Therapy and Mediation

Psychotherapy — Houston, TX — Adjust Your Sails Psychotherapy

Current Work

I am currently working in Private practice.

Highlights

Over the past 25 plus years, my experience has included a broad spectrum of treatment centers.


My work has included Psychiatric Social Work and Therapist Social Work.

I am Currently seeing clients who lives are in transition due to a variety of factors:

  • Retirement
  • Relocating
  • Loss & Grief (Including Pet Loss)
  • Relationship Issues
  • Employment Conflict

Currently Working towards a Fellow in Thanatology

CURRENTLY OFFERING: Pet loss and pet cancer journey support groups.


Specialty Through Graduate School: Gerontology with the emphasis in Elder Abuse & Neglect

2004, was bestowed Board Certified Diplomate status upon, by the American Board of Examiners in Clinical Social Work.

Interviewed by TIME magazine (as author of the article) for the Special Healthcare Issue regarding teen temptations and how to advise parents before their teens become involved in hyper-sexuality, drugs and alcohol. (05/03)


Private Practice workshops with Personal & Business Transition Issues


Workshops cover topics such as:

  • Standing up as an Adult in a New World - called College
  • Don't be Cooked under Pressure - the Campus Culture
  • Sexuality - Desease and Pregnancy Prevention
  • How To Be Your Own Best Healthcare Advocate
  • Loss and Grief
  • Grieving the Loss of a Spouse or Significant Other
  • Women in Transition
  • Are we who we want to be Spiritually/Emotionally
  • The Many Faces of Elder Depression
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Interpersonal Leadership Style
  • Webinar on Honoring Diversity
  • Webinar on Interfath Issues in Relationships
  • Healthcare professionals and Self Nurturing
  • Family Reconciliation and Empowerment Issues
  • Assist the Bio-Ethics Consult Team in facilitation of Family Meetings where difficult dynamics present themselves
  • Sit on the Pastoral Councel in advisory capacity and policy making

Education

1993 - 1995 University of Houston - Graduate School of Social Work, Houston, Texas

Masters in Social Work

  • APA - American Physiological Association
  • Certified Anger Resolution Therapist
  • NASW member in good standing
  • Business & Professional Women with the Federation of Greater Houston
  • Supporter and Charter member of Holocaust Museum: Washington DC, in its 10th anniversary year
  • Supporter:
  • Houston Holocaust Museum
  • Jewish Fed'n of Greater Houston
  • Patron of the Arts:
  • Houston Symphony
  • B'way in America
  • Houston Bellet
  • Houston Grand Opera
  • Member, Guild of Temple Musicians, 1973-2003 (Board member Guild of Temple Musicians, 1980-84. Vice president, 1984-86, President. 1987-89)
  • Supporter, Jewish Federation of Greater Houston, 1991-present
  • AIPAC member, 1991-present Houston
  • Houston Gerontological Society, 1993-2000, 2002 to present
  • Orthopsychiatic Association, 1995-2000
  • National Council of Jewish Women, 2002-present
  • Union of American Hebrew Congregations' Commission on Synagogue Music, 1986-89
  • Board member, American Conference on Cantors, 1988-89
  • Better Business Burea of Montgomery Texas
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