Rhea V. Almeida, MS, Ph.D., LCSW, founder of IFS, is a family therapist and Columbia Graduate. She has 25 years experience as a teacher, therapist, consultant, speaker and author. Creator of the Cultural Context Model, Dr. Almeida is the author of three books Expansions of Feminist Theory Through Diversity, Transformations in Gender and Race: Family and Developmental Perspectives and co-author of Transformative Family Therapy: Just Families in a Just Society and numerous journal articles. Her interests include evolving paradigms that have social justice at their center; providing creative access to resources for diverse couples balancing work and family life; working with families around the reunification of their children in state foster care; providing supervised therapeutic parenting for fathers and their children towards restoring parental rights; working with families and children who are confronted with inaccurate diagnosis and drug remedies by school systems; providing innovative services for men with a range of lifeís difficulties. She also oversees a Training and Mentoring program for graduate students. Dr. Almeida received the American Family Therapyís Innovative Contributions to Family Therapy. She is annually honored by the Award from the Domestic Violence Hotline for her work with women and families with domestic violence. She has served on the editorial boards of several distinguished journals in the field including The Journal of Cultural Diversity and Mental Health, The Journal of Marital and Family Therapy and The Journal of Feminist Family Therapy. She currently serves on the Advisory Board for the Department of Counseling and Human Services at John HOpkins University, Baltimore MD and the Cultural Diversity Committee for NASW/NJ. . She has been featured in the Los Angles Times, CNBC, National Public Radio, USA Today and Pure Oxygen. You can reach her or the IFS faculty at WeCare4UIFS@aol.com. All IFS faculty are postgraduates trained in Family Systems Therapy and the CCM.