Biography

Lois Nachamie, MFA, LCSW, is a psychotherapist, couples counselor, and group leader in private practice in New York City, specializing in family and parenting issues. She also treats a wide variety of individual issues, including anxiety, depression, and weight-related difficulties.

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 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, NPR, Health Magazine, and Newsweek.

Upcoming Workshops and Speaking Engagements

FOR PARENTS
"How To Talk To Your Kids About Money in Changing Times"
For families with children from toddlers through college.
Join other families to discuss productive ways to address a changing relationship to money without raising anxiety in your children.
Ansche Chesed Employment Networking Group
April 29, 2009 10 - 11:30 am

Not Quite Nursery Program, JCC Manhattan, Parenting Workshops
July 21 morning workshop: July 22, morning and evening workshops

FOR COLLEAGUES
"Sexuality in Parenting: A Clinical Presentation"
Blanton-Peale Graduate Institute
Psychoanalytic Training Program
March 25, 2009



What critics have to say...

So Glad We Waited: A Hand-Holding Guide for Over-35 Parents.
Foreword by Debra Winger.
“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
Big Lessons for Little People
“Offers warm yet realistic advice...including step-by-step guidelines for dealing with a variety of specific problems. Original."
--Ingram
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