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Social Work

Social Work seemed to grow out of my fascination with group dynamics and the co-operative self-education program at Monteith College, Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, where I did my undergraduate work. Teaching creative dance to young children at the same time as studying group therapy techniques ignited my lifelong interest in the arts as tools for individual and group expression and transformation.

Dancing professionally is something you do when you’re young, so I interrupted college after one year, pledging to return at a later time. After marriage and two children, when I was turned down by the city recreation department to teach dance because I didn’t have a college degree, I decided this was the time. I taught dance for the money to pay the baby sitters I needed while I attended my college classes and rehearsed with the Festival Dancers, a semi-professional dance company out of the Jewish Community Center.

After seven years of classes and internships (and the birth of another child somewhere in the mix), I had an undergraduate degree in philosophy, a teaching certificate, a year’s experience as a college teaching assistant, and a Masters in Social Work. Like most women I know, I don’t remember a time when I wasn’t doing at least two or three things simultaneously.

“If we’re not supposed to dance, why all this music?”

Gregory Orr

SHEILA’S CLIENTS HAVE INCLUDED

Experienced Intimacy

Vulnerability

Experienced intimacy in community – able to make myself vulnerable.

Hard Conversations

Made Easier

So grateful to find ways that make hard conversations easier.

Received Support

Multiple Issues

Received support while dealing with aging, care-giving, and death in my family.

Got ‘Coolness’ Credits

Loved It

Doing this improvisational work I got some credit for “coolness” from my adult children and grandchildren.

Grace Under Pressure

An Education

Finally learned how to receive gracefully, give wholly and live fully. Thank you.

TOUGH INTO TRIUMPH

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