PACT (Pre/Post Adoption Consulting and Training)

PACT (Pre/Post Adoption Consulting and Training) Consulting, Therapy (individual and couples) and Training
also professional and parent coaching

Dr. Joyce Maguire Pavao, Ed.D., LCSW, LMFT, was the Founder and CEO of Center for Family Connections, Inc. (CFFC, 1995-2012) in Cambridge and New York, Founder and Director of Riverside After Adoption Consulting and Training (AACT, 2012 to 2015), PACT (Pre/Post Adoption Consulting and Training, 1982-present), and Pavao Consulting and Coaching. Dr. Pavao has done extensive training, both nationally and internationally. She is a lecturer in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and she has consulted to various public and private child welfare agencies, adoption agencies, schools, and community groups, as well as probate and family court judges, lawyers, and clergy. Additionally, she has worked closely with individuals and families touched by adoption, foster care, and other complex blended family constructions. She has developed models for treatment and for training using her systemic, intergenerational, and developmental framework, The Normative Crises in the Development of the Adoptive Family, and her book, The Family of Adoption (Beacon Press), has received high acclaim. Dr. Pavao has received many awards and honors, including the Children’s Bureau/U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Adoption Excellence Award for Family Contribution (2003) and the Congressional Coalition on Adoption award for Angels in Adoption (2000).

03/13/2026
Empowering families through personalized coaching and consulting. Learn more about our adoption, child welfare, and comp...
03/10/2026

Empowering families through personalized coaching and consulting. Learn more about our adoption, child welfare, and complex blended family services

Openings currently for Weekly, bi weekly, monthlyConsulting and coaching By adoption competent expertWith 55 years exper...
03/10/2026

Openings currently
for Weekly, bi weekly, monthly
Consulting and coaching
By adoption competent expert
With 55 years experience.
kinnect@gmail.com

Welcome to Pavao Consulting and CoachingGet accessible and personalized systemic individual coaching, consulting, supervision and training in-person in our office or from the comfort of your home or office via Zoom. Approach“Consulting to you on issues of search for self, family, identity, persona...

Join me on 3/31 at 6:00 EST. With my 55+ years as an adoption competent therapist, who foundedThree therapy clinics and ...
03/09/2026

Join me on 3/31 at 6:00 EST.
With my 55+ years as an adoption competent therapist, who founded
Three therapy clinics and 2 training centers. We usually start with a comment or two, and then open up for any and all comments or questions about the long and complex journey after reunion.

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Belmont, MA
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Thursday 9am - 3pm
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