Susan Pease Gadoua is the founder and executive director of the Transition Institute of Marin, an agency based in San Rafael, Calif., specializing in meeting the needs of divorcing people. As a licensed clinical social worker with more than 20 years of experience, Susan has an extensive professional background in dealing with inter-personal relationships and divorce. Susan's first book, "Contemplating Divorce: A Step-by-Step Guide to Deciding Whether to Stay or Go (New Harbinger Publications, Inc)," is due out in August 2008.

In addition to her therapeutic skills, Susan is also a certified mediator. Together with her husband, Michael Gadoua, J.D. (also a certified mediator), they mediate a number of issues such as marital dissolution, neighbor disputes and employment conflicts.

Susan has been in private practice in Marin County since 1993. Her practice consists of individual, couples and family therapy as well as the many groups she leads for divorcing people. Susan also teaches a class called a Relationship Insight Class which uses a unique curriculum, drawing primarily from Cognitive–Behavioral and Jungian psychologies, to help participants gain insight to their thoughts and behaviors as well as change maladaptive relationship patterns.

Additional professional attributes Susan possesses include being a certified alcohol and drug abuse counselor (CADC), having training as a life coach and being fluent in Spanish. In 1997, Susan published a therapeutic board game for adolescents called, "On the Road to Discovery." Susan lives with her husband and two dogs 15 miles north of San Francisco. To learn more, go to transitioninstituteofmarin.com.

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