Janette Patterson, LCMFT

Weinfeld Education Group, LLC Presents…

Diamonds in the Rough
Smart Kids Who Learn Differently

March 11- 13, 2010
University of Maryland
Shady Grove
9630 Gudelsky Drive
Rockville, MD 20850

Biography:

"Janette Patterson, LCMFT, is the Admissions Director of the Nora School, a small, private high school in downtown Silver Spring, MD. For the past 20 years Janette has worked in a variety of school settings, both as administrator, as teacher, as mentor to other teachers and as consultant to other school settings. Janette is licensed in the State of Maryland as a Clinical Marriage and Family Therapist and works as a therapist at the Montgomery County Crisis Center in Rockville.

Janette holds a Masters degree in Social Work from the University of Georgia. She did her clinical work in marriage and family therapy. After years of working as a psychotherapist in private practice and in- and outpatient settings, Janette studied Waldorf pedagogy at the Center for Anthroposophy Waldorf High School Teacher Education Program and has been working in both fields – as educator and as therapist – ever since. Janette has lectured along the East Coast on topics both in alternative and special education as well as a variety of psychotherapeutic concerns and has offered workshops and sessions at conferences, such as the Learning Disability Association, International Association of Infant Massage Therapists, Association for Women in Psychology, Montgomery County Commission for Women, and others.

Janette makes her home in Silver Spring, MD, from where she has launched two of her three children into college and is enjoying her youngest daughter's final years in high school.