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name: Shauna L. Smith
about: Shauna L. Smith has been a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist for over thirty years in Sacramento, Ca. and has managed to stay sane and relatively normal despite her childhood, thanks to the arts, good therapy, her husband, also a Licensed MFT, friends and her two grown daughters and grandchildren.Missing Father: A Daughter's Search for Love, Self-Acceptance and a Father Lost in the World of Mental Illness was published by Compassion Press, 11/17Making Peace With Your Adult Children, A Guide to Family Healing was published by Plenum in cloth and in paperback by HarperCollins.Coffee and Ink, How Writers Group Can Nourish Your Creativity, co-authored with six other writers, published by Quill Drivers Press. Shauna has had several articles Shauna L. Smith has been a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist for over thirty years in Sacramento, Ca. and has managed to stay sane and relatively normal despite her childhood, thanks to the arts, good therapy, her husband, also a Licensed MFT, friends and her two grown daughters and grandchildren.Missing Father: A Daughter's Search for Love, Self-Acceptance and a Father Lost in the World of Mental Illness was published by Compassion Press, 11/17Making Peace With Your Adult Children, A Guide to Family Healing was published by Plenum in cloth and in paperback by HarperCollins.Coffee and Ink, How Writers Group Can Nourish Your Creativity, co-authored with six other writers, published by Quill Drivers Press. Shauna has had several articles and poems published in various magazines. She's been to too many conferences and workshops on how to write, get published and market your book.She loves making art in most forms, including clay, monotype, silk painting, watercolor and pastel.Shauna co-founded and coordinates Therapists for Social Responsibility, a group of over 300 therapists in the greater Sacramento area, whose mission is to dialogue and take action on issues where the psychological and political intersect.  Previous Publication CreditsMaking Peace With Your Adult Children, A Guide to Family Healing – published in cloth by Plenum and paperback by HarperCollinsCoffee and Ink: How a Writers Group Can Nourish Your Creativity, co-author with six other writers, published by Quill Driver PressArticles printed in various magazines including More Magazine, AARP, California Society for Clinical Social Work, The Therapist. Speaker and lecturer, keynote speaker at University of Montana, appearance on Good Morning America.Poetry: Published in various places including SPC Tule Review, Sacramento Voices: Women Working Together for Peace and Social Justice, Sambatyan, and Wood, Water, Air and Fire EducationMasters in Social Work, 1975Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing, 1965 Current OccupationLicensed Marriage and Family TherapistAuthor, speaker, consultant Employment HistoryLicensed Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice for over 30 yearsSchool Social Worker, Conn.Elementary School Teacher, NY and CAPresenter, Speaker, Consultant Writing Workshops/ConferencesBook breakthrough, Janet Goldstein and Elizabeth MarshallWriting for Change Conference, San FranciscoYear long intensive, Diana DiPrima,Memoir Lab Workshop, Marge Piercy, Ira WoodDeep River, Naomi LowinskySummerwords, various authorsNatalie Goldberg, Writing Down The BonesArtist-in-residence, Mendocino Art Center Additional expertise. interestsCo-founder and coordinator of Therapists for Social Responsibility, 2003-presentArtist, various media: sculpture, silk painting, monotypes, water color, oil, pastel, mixed media FamilyShauna has been married to Ray Bacigalupi, also a family therapist, for over 30 years. She has two daughters and three grandchildren. ...more