Featured Speaker:

Deb Hecker, PhD

Deborah Hecker, Ph.D., is a psychotherapist with over 35 years of private practice experience. She received her Master's Degree from Columbia University and her Ph.D. from The Union Institute. In addition, she is certified as a psychoanalyst and has extensive training in the following areas: addictions counseling, grief counseling, collaborative practice and mediation.

Dr. Hecker co-founded and was the President of Prime Choices, A Women's Center For Mid-Life Development. Prime Choices, an interdisciplinary organization whose mission was to educate and empower midlife women, offered individual counseling, support groups, professional speakers, author presentations and conferences.

After resolving the trauma of her divorce, Dr. Hecker developed a specialization in helping individuals and families transitioning through their own post-divorce /separation challenges. Drawing on her wealth of clinical experience in mental health as well her extensive research on the psychology of grief and theories of identity formation, she became deeply committed to assisting her clients to resolve complex issues involved in the divorce process and its aftermath.

Dr. Deborah Hecker has published articles on divorce and midlife women. She has been interviewed on radio programs and news broadcasts as well as made live appearances on PBS specials.