Bio
Prior to MAPP, Ellen spent 15 years at Alaska Pacific University in Anchorage as a professor of psychology and director of the Master of Science in Counseling Psychology program. She became a Professor Emerita in 2010 when she moved from Alaska to Albany, NY. Before Alaska, Ellen held similar academic positions at Prescott College in Arizona and Goddard College in Vermont, and was licensed as a psychologist in all three states. During these years Ellen's research and practice specialties were the psychology of women and gender and human sexuality (she studied with Masters and Johnson in the 1970's and 80's and became an AASECT-certified Sex Therapist Diplomate). She is a former editor of the journal Women & Therapy, author and editor of a variety of publications, and past-president of both the Alaska Psychological Association and the Society for the Psychology of Women, a division of the American Psychological Association.
Currently, Ellen is Professor of Psychology at the Sage Colleges in Albany and Troy, NY and Book Review Editor of the journal Psychology of Women Quarterly. Since MAPP, and specifically thanks to George Vaillant and her Capstone, Ellen's focus is now on positive aging. She and Jane Giddan created a blog, 70 Candles.com, and recently published her capstone, "70 Candles! Women Thriving in their Eighth Decade," available from the Taos Institute and of course Amazon.com. Other recent publications, in collaboration with co-editor Mary Gergen, include the book "Retiring But Not Shy: Feminist Psychologists Create their Post-Careers" and the entire 2016 volume (four issues) of the journal Women & Therapy, called "Positive Aging: What Feminist Therapists Need to Know."
