Welcome To The Stepfamily Foundation

Upcoming Events

CERTIFICATION SEMINARS 2010

April 24 & 25 2010, Saturday and Sunday 10 am – 5 pm

Pre registration $725 one month before seminar, $800 thereafter

The Stepfamily Foundation
212 West 91st. Street 
Suite 1221
New York, NY 10024

This Seminar will promote and credential you to become a guide in creating successful 21st Century families and stepfamilies.
Led by Jeannette Lofas, PhD, LCSW, Founder & President Receive our Certificate— Be promoted on our website. Help others with your knowledge!

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MASTER CERTIFICATION 2010

JUNE 12 & 13, Saturday and Sunday 10 am – 5 pm

Pre registration $725 one month before seminar, $800 thereafter

The Stepfamily Foundation
212 W 91st Street
Ste. 1221
New York, NY 10024

This is ONLY for those who have attended the Stepfamily Foundation Certification Seminar. It will consist of a small group of chosen participants. The work will be to further increase your skills as a certified counselor/coach.

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Who we are and how we work

The Stepfamily Foundation, Inc., headquartered in New York City is a not for profit founded in 1975. Our mission is to assist you in making your family, as it is now, function well. We have created a successful management system for the stepfamily – who unfortunately, is the unacknowledged majority.

We address the issues of; organization, partnership, couple strength, conflict of loyalties, roles, discipline, the ex spouse and much, much more. We also serve faith based organizations and individuals.

We are the only organization to devote ourselves solely to these issues for over 30 years. We have identified the classic dynamics and have established proven solutions. Our work is supported by substantial research involving more than 3000 people.

Need Help Now?

  1. Stepfamily
  2. Single Parents
  3. Remarriage
  4. First Family - Our research relates that our methods also apply to the original family

We provide 20 minute free consultation by phone. After that, an hour rate is charged. Call (212)877-3244 for more information. It is our experience that families can't do it alone. Coaching is needed. Try it!!!

 

Jeannette Lofas Ph. D. LCSW receiving award from
President Clinton and Congress on
National Parents Day 

"For outstanding efforts in strengthening
step relationships across America"

“No other counselors have been able to help me STEP BY STEP with what to do with my boys.

Our relationship is 150% better since our work with Stepfamily”

- Jeff R. April 2007, New Hampshire

Traditional marriage and family counselors are trained to work with the biological family. They are not trained in the complexities of the stepfamily. The result, 66% fail. 84% of Stepfamily Foundation, Inc. clients succeed.

64% of families today live in some form of divorced and/or stepfamily relationship. They are:

  • The Original Family
    • Husband and Wife. Recent research proves that our methodology also works well with the original couple.
  • The Divorced Family
    • Single parents, parents who visit, and their new partners.
  • The Re-Coupled, or Stepfamily
    • Formed when one are both partners have children from prior whether these children are residential or visiting.

    • We make it work!

    We offer counseling in the following areas:

    • Mediation
    • Divorce
    • Custody Change
    • Pre-Nuptials
    • Co-Parenting Agreements with ex spouses - The parents of children.
    • Family Therapy - For first families

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Dr.Lofas Article for Remarriagemag.com

The Stepfamily Must Become a Team to Survive

by Jeannette Lofas, Ph.D., LCSW

Stepfamilies are one of the predominate forms of family in America today. Sadly, though, two out of three of these families fail. Typically, most remarried families complain of the chaos, disorder, and disrespect they encounter in their new family unit....

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