Biography

Lois Nachamie, MFA, LCSW-R, is a board-certified psychotherapist and couples counselor in private practice in New York City. Specializing in parenting issues, she also treats a wide variety of concerns, including relationships, anxiety, depression, and professional success. Using many approaches, including talk therapy and clinical hypnotherapy, she treats smoking cessation, weight-related difficulties and stress reduction, among other problems.

A Parents Choice Award-winning author, her two most recent books are So Glad We Waited: A Hand-Holding Guide for Over-35 Parents, with a foreword by Debra Winger and Big Lessons for Little People: Teaching Our Kids Right from Wrong While Keeping Them Healthy, Safe and Happy.

A parent educator for well over twenty years, she is the founder and director of the So-Glad-We-Waited Network, which offers support and parent education to over-35 parents.

Ms. Nachamie lectures nationally and locally and has been featured on television, radio and in print, including The Today Show, New York Magazine, NPR, Health Magazine, and Newsweek.



Recent Quote in US News

A Blessing, Not a Burden: The Benefits of Being an Older Parent

http:/​/​health.usnews.com/​health-news/​health-wellness/​articles/​2013/​04/​22/​a-blessing-not-a-burden-the-benefits-of-being-an-older-parent

What critics have to say...

So Glad We Waited: A Hand-Holding Guide for Over-35 Parents. “Eminently wise and practical...impassioned, opinionated, wryly humorous, and ultimately reassuring as [Nachamie] plumbs the emotional depths of this profoundly life-altering experience. ”
--Starred review, Publishers Weekly
“Offers warm yet realistic advice...including step-by-step guidelines for dealing with a variety of specific problems. Original."
--Ingram