Members of the Institute
Monica McGoldrick, LCSW, PhD (h.c.)
Director, Multicultural Family Institute
Nationally known teacher, author and family therapist. Books include: The Genogram Journey, Reconnecting with your Family 2010, Re-Visioning Family Therapy 2nd Ed. 2008, The Expanded Family Life Cycle (4th Ed., 2010), Ethnicity and Family Therapy (3rd Ed., 2005), Genograms Assessment and Intervention (3rd Ed., 2008), Women in Families, and Living Beyond Loss, (2nd Ed, 2004). Faculty, Psychiatry Dept., RWJ Medical School, For 10 years was Visiting Professor Fordham University School of Social Service. Honorary Doctorate, Smith College School for Social Work, 1991. American Family Therapy Academy Award (1988): Distinguished Contribution to Family Therapy Theory and Practice.
View Monica McGoldrick's ResumeNydia Garcia Preto*, LCSW, ACSW
Clinical Director, Multicultural Family Institute
Noted author and teacher of family therapy. Publications on Latino families, ethnic intermarriage, women's issues, and adolescence. She has served on the Board of Directors of American Family Therapy Academy, American Orthopsychiatric Association, Supervision Committee of AAMFT. Private practice, Highland Park, NJ.
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Barbara Petkov, Eds.
Core Faculty, Multicultural Family Institute
Barbara Petkov Ed.S, LMFT, Marriage and Family Therapist, Alumni and Core faculty at the Multicultural Family Institute. SHe has a private practice in Highland Park with extensive experience in working with young children, adolescents and families. Certified therapist in EMDR. Coordinator and trainer for Cultural Diversity and issues of social justice.
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Sueli Petry, PhD
Core Faculty, Multicultural Family Institute
Psychologist and family therapist, Alumna and core faculty at MFI, clinician and faculty at University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey, and private practice in Highland Park. She has experience with Latino families and with survivors of sexual abuse. She has published on Genograms and on Brazilian families and is co-author of Genograms: Assessment and Intervention, 3rd edition.
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Roberto J. Font, LCSW
Manager and Core Faculty, Multicultural Family Institute
He is an Alumna of the Multicultural family Institue and has a private practice in Highland Park, NJ. Special interests: men's issues, LGBTQ issues and Latino Families.
Charlesetta T. Sutton*, LCSW.
Founding Member, Multicultural Family Institute
National trainer, program developer, consultant, and author, this family therapist applies her expertise to the treatment of families and/or to larger scale interventions that focus on prevention, spiritual well-being, and health promotion. (Train the Trainer work pertaining to families in crisis, loss, trauma, life transitions, violence and suicide intervention with families and adolescents) She is Director, CTS Group: Sutton and Associates, Faculty, TurtleIslandProject and Former Training Director, UMDNJ-UBHC, OPSR.
Kenneth Hardy., PhD
Guest Faculty, Multicultural Family Institute
Kenneth V. Hardy is a professor of family therapy at Syracuse University and is Director of the Eikenberg Institute for Relationships in New York. He is the former Director of the Center for Children, Families, and Trauma at the Ackerman Institute for the Family in New York. Dr. Hardy has provided training and consultation for working with troubled children and youth throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. His work has been featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, 20/20, Dateline NBC, PBS, and the Discovery Health Channel. Dr. Hardy maintains a private practice in New York.
Forum Participants
Josiane Menos, PsyD
Alumna and Forum Participant, Multicultural Family Institute
School Psychologist in Brooklyn NY, Josiane works for the Office of Child and Family Services (OCFS), a culturally based intervention program for traumatized and violent teenage girls in a residential facility. She is an author of a chapter on Haitian families in Ethnicity and Family Therapy, and of a chapter on loss in Living Beyond Loss, 2nd ed.
Karen Herrera
Alumna, Forum Participant and Multicultural Family Institute
Karen Herrera, LCSW, MS, Alumna of the Multicultural Family Institute, special interest in bicultural and biracial experiences. She is an experienced dance therapist, and individual, couples and family therapist in private practice in Maplewood, N.J.
