Biography

Lois Nachamie, MFA, LCSW, is a board-certified psychotherapist, couples counselor, and group leader in private practice in New York City, specializing in family and parenting issues. She treats a wide variety of individual interpersonal and work-related concerns, including relationships, 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.

Lecture/​Workshop, Parent Association, Rodeph Shalom School, January 24, 2012: "The Gimmies: How to Say Yes, How to Say No and How to Set Limits Effectively"
To see poster follow this link:

http:/​/​rodephsholom.org/​wp-content/​uploads/​2012/​01/​Setting-Limits-poster.pdf


Quoted in cover story, New York Magazine, July 4th, 2010: "I Love My Children, I Hate My Life."
http:/​/​nymag.com/​news/​features/​67024

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