Rebecca is a licensed clinical social worker with over twenty-five years’ experience working in the field of foster care and adoption.  She is currently the director of the Adoption and Kinship Legal Guardianship Clinical Services (a program with Children’s Aid and Family Services) that provides free, in-home counseling to pre and post adopt and kinship families, statewide.  Rebecca received her MSW from Rutgers School of Social Work.  She is level 1 and level 2 trained in Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy, certified in Tuning in to Teens and Kids and the Attachment Regulation and Competency (ARC) framework.  She has also received her certificate in Trauma Response and Crisis Intervention Certificate Program and the Adoption Certificate Program through Rutgers.  

Some of her clinical experience includes providing in-home family therapy and outpatient treatment to foster, adoptive and kinship families.  She is an approved clinical supervisor and has supervised in-home adoption therapists for many years.  She has experience facilitating parenting groups and trainings for kinship and adoptive parents.  Rebecca has developed and presented trainings for the NJ Adoption Resource Clearinghouse and Let’s Talk Adoption Conferences for Concerned Persons for Adoption.  She develops curriculum for both the child welfare and clinical track in the Adoption Certificate Program and has been an instructor for the Continuing Education program at Rutgers since 2007.