Sharon Stein McNamara, Ed.D., LP

Sharon Stein McNamara, Ed.D., LP graduated from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1991. She has been licensed as a psychologist in Massachusetts and Minnesota. Her degree is in Human Development and Psychology. Dr. Stein McNamara has completed extensive training as a dialectical behavior therapist for children, adolescents and adults and holds a certificate in Permanency and Adoption Competency to work with adopted persons and their families. She herself is an adopted person who has re-united with birth family and who has experience with search and reunion for adult adopted persons. She also has trained to do family-law related forensic work with parents, children and families. Dr. Stein McNamara has worked as an Adjunct Professor at Argosy University in the Minnesota School of Professional Psychology, teaching developmental psychology and group therapy. Her specialty areas are helping children and families cope with divorce, family planning, adoption and helping all ages work with trauma-related issues and personality disorders. Dr. Stein McNamara has been interviewed for Adoptees-On, an Internationally recognized Podcast and has an online seminar through Minnesota Psychological Association called Clinical Issues in Adoption Across the Lifespan.