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barbara feinberg

Barbara Feinberg
Cleveland, Ohio

 
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216)321-8108

Email: barbfein@sbcglobal.net

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

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What’s different about me?  The combination of corporate & counseling experience and training

 

What I Have to Offer

  • Creative thinking
  • Irreverent sense of humor
  • High level of collaboration and support
  • Direct and forthright style
  • Patience while you're getting unstuck
  • Meaningful connection
  • High ethical standards & values
  • Acceptance of who you are
  • Expectations of changes that work
  • Focus on what's really important to you
  • Curiosity, not judgment

Some Personal Information

  • Raised on a farm in a family business
  • Addicted to reading
  • Balanced work & family responsibilities
  • Made midlife career change to pursue my current profession
  • Lived through & learned from difficult transitions & losses
  • Traveled widely
  • Love photography  (me at left in Yellowstone)

What I Believe about our Work Together

  • Getting what you want and need is a legitimate goal in life.
  • You are the expert in your own life.
  • Challenging the "should's" and "must not's" helps us get unstuck
  • Reexamining values is central to making change.
  • Trying out new behaviors and managing risk supports moving forward.
  • You may have choices you haven't identified.

Professional Background

Executive at Three Publicly-traded Companies

  • Manager - Compensation and Benefits (Progressive Insurance)
  • Senior human resources consultant (Watson-Wyatt)
  • Principal and head of Cleveland employee communications consulting practice  (William M. Mercer, Inc.)

Consulting clients have included banks, hospitals, county government, industrial companies, professional service firms and many others.

Other Managerial Experience

  • Various public sector employers
  • Client populations included those who were drug dependent,recently released from prison, and/or in supportive work & on-the-job training programs.

Clinical Experience

 

Private Practice

  • Integrates my business and clinical training and experience
  • Coach and provide workforce management consultation to executives and other professionals

 

The Cleveland Clinic

  • Psychotherapist working with individuals, couples and groups
  • Therapy training supervisor, psychiatric residents

 

Free Clinic of Cleveland

  • Volunteer counselor
  • Supervisor, psychotherapy trainees
  • Workshop Presenter, Couples Therapy                                    
  • Appreciative Inquiry Facilitator

 

NCJW/Montefiore Hospice Program

  • Bereavement Group Facilitator

Education

  • Case Western Reserve University, MSSA
  • Yeshiva University, MS
  • Boston University, BA

Licenses and Professional Designation

  • Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW) State of Ohio
  • Licensed Independent Social Worker Supervisor (LISW-S) State of Ohio
  • Independent Marriage & Family Therapist (IMFT) State of Ohio
  • Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) State of Colorado
  • Clinical Member, American Association of Marriage & Family Therapists

In the Media

  • Contributing writer to McVayMedia.com, a media resource site offering coaching to talent  and those who coach talent.
  • Interviewed on the nationally-broadcasted radio shows of Sally Jessie Raphael, Rolanda Watts and Lisa Osborne on personal and work-related issues.
  • Abstract Reviewer, American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Chosen by Cleveland Magazine as one of "80 for the 80s"
  • Featured in JStyle article on coaching (a Cleveland Jewish News publication)

See my comprehensive vitae

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