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).

**PLEASE SHARE** this is a very important new study being conducted by Dr. Amanda Baden exploring family estrangement a...
08/26/2025

**PLEASE SHARE** this is a very important new study being conducted by Dr. Amanda Baden exploring family estrangement among adopted people~ please share and participate if this is you!

08/25/2025
I awoke to a gorgeous sunny, summer day for my 79th bday -and the start of my 80th trip around the sun. My birthday wis...
08/20/2025

I awoke to a gorgeous sunny, summer day for my 79th bday -and the start of my 80th trip around the sun.

My birthday wish is for a return to some semblance of kindness, inclusion, connection and care for the other beings that we share this planet with.

Breathe!
08/13/2025

Breathe!

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5 Watson Rd (@Concord Ave) Belmont, MA 02478
Belmont, MA
02478

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Tuesday 9am - 3pm
Wednesday 9am - 3pm
Thursday 9am - 3pm
Friday 9am - 3pm

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