Lee Raffel, MSW
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Lee
Raffel
is a practicing psychotherapist for over 35 years. She is a published
poet and author of I Hate Conflict (McGraw-Hill, 2008) and Should
I Stay or Go? How Controlled Separation (CS) Can Save Your Marriage (McGraw-Hill,
1999). Lee is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Licensed Clinical Social
Worker, Clinical Member of the American
Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, Board Certified Diplomate in
Psychotherapy and Behavioral Medicine, and relationship coach, mediator and educator.
A recognized expert on marriage and interpersonal relationships, Lee has appeared
on The Today Show, Good Morning New York, hosted a radio show, and appeared
on ABC, NBC, CBS nationwide addressing Controlled Separation. She also has been
featured in Psychotherapy Networker, O - The Oprah Magazine, The Wall Street
Journal, Ladies' Home Journal, The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, Chicago
Sun-Times, and radio and newsprint nationwide. Lee has also presented a radio
show titled Should I Stay or Go? Straight Talk About Troubled Relationships.
Lee, proprietor of Awareness Counseling Services, Inc.,
maintains a private practice and as founder of Fresh Perspectives
Training Institute®, presents numerous programs on the complexity and
possibilities inherent in conflicted relationships. She also is available to offer
workshops on Controlled Separation, and troubled family
relationships. Her provocative insights and timely strategies have been utilized
nationally and internationally for people at risk of destroying their meaningful
connections.
Lee says that much of what she has learned about healthy relationships has come
from sharing 24 years with her husband, Mark, who initiated much laughter and
made every day a fruitful experience even when there was sorrow. Mark died suddenly
on December 12, 2000. Since then, Lee continues to reinvent herself over and over
again.
