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****** Elisabeth Joy LaMotte, LICSW, MSW, is a licensed independent clinical social worker and an individual, couples, family and group psychotherapist. She has been in private practice since 2000, and has over 20 years of experience in the social work field. Her approach to therapy is focused and goal-oriented, and her personality is kind, empathetic and direct.
She is a member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT), the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and the American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA). She has met rigorous training and education standards and is a supervisor in training to become an AAMFT approved supervisor. She currently supervises AAMFT candidates for clinical membership.
In 1995, Elisabeth received a Master's Degree in Social Work (MSW) from the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Work. She has a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. In 1997, she received a post-graduate certificate in couples, family and sex therapy from the Penn Council for Relationships, an affiliate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry. She is a licensed independent clinical social worker (LICSW) in Washington DC.
Her work has been published in the Journal of the American Academy of Psychotherapy, and she has written op-ed columns for The Philadelphia Daily News and The Philadelphia Tribune. She has taught graduate level courses at the Virginia Commonwealth University Graduate School of Social Work. She was recently interviewed by Washingtonian for an article about couples and exercise.
She lives in Washington DC with her husband and two children. She is active in her community, serving as a member of the Women's Committee of THEARC, the Board of Directors of Little Folks School, as co-chair of the Washington Ballet's 2010 Nutcracker Tea, and as Family Chair of the 2011 Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Walk to Cure Diabetes.
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