Marcia Naomi Berger
MSW, LCSW
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Author, Therapist, Marriage and Relationships Expert
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- Marriage and Relationshps
- Best Sellers
- Marriage Meetings for Lasting Love: 30 Minutes a Week to the Relationship You've Always Wanted (Author of Marriage Meetings for Lasting Love: 30 Minutes a Week to the Relationship You've Always Wanted (New World Library).
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- Author, Speaker, Psythotherapist
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- National Association of Social Workers (NASW)
Marcia Naomi Berger. LCSW, is the author of MARRIAGE MINDED: An A to Z Dating Guide for Lasting Love (She Writes Press, 2021, and of MARRIAGE MEETINGS FOR LASTING LOVE: 30 Minutes a Week to the Relationship You’ve Always Wanted (New World Library). A licensed clinical social worker and psychotherapist in San Rafael, Califo ia, she leads marriage and communications workshops for the public (Marry With Confidence workshops and Marriage Meeting workshops) and communications seminars at corporations. She has been teaching continuing education programs for therapists for the National Association of Social Workers, and at the UC Berkeley Extension and Alliant International University.
A former executive director of Jewish Family and Children’s Services of the East Bay and clinical faculty member at the UCSF School of Medicine, she has held senior level positions in the fields of child welfare, alcoholism treatment, and psychiatry. She earned her master’s degree in social work at the University of Michigan.
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Marcia Naomi Berger Books
Marriage Minded: An A to Z Dating Guide for Lasting Love
https://www.amazon.com/Marriage-Minded-Dating-Guide-Lasting/dp/1647421799/ref=sr_1_3?crid=3O0L8NNXGS0CR&keywords=marriage+minded+an+a+to+z+dating+guide+for+lasting+love&qid=1644011507&s=books&sprefix=marriage+minded%2Cstripbooks%2C203&sr=1-3
Marriage Meetings for Lasting Love: 30 Minutes a Week to the Relationship You've Always Wanted
http://www.amazon.com/Marriage-Meetings-Lasting-Love-Relationship/dp/1608682234
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