About the Author

Roxanne K. Livingston, M.A., has been a Licensed Professional Counselor practicing individual, couple and family therapy for over thirty-five years. She has provided training and consultation to social service agencies, public school personnel, mental health agencies, corrections departments, health departments, and private practitioners. Previously she was the unit director of a multi-service mental health program for youth and families in Winston-Salem, N.C. and supervised an outpatient mental health program in Linn County, Oregon. She was a therapy supervisor for a model treatment program for sex offenders in Salem, Oregon, and was an adjunct professor of Psychology at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. She has regularly taught classes on mental health related topics for public agencies under contract with Portland State University. She became a clinical member of the International Transactional Analysis Association in 1978, and is a Nationally Certified Counselor.