BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCH:
With thirty years as a clinician, Edward Monte is a highly
respected individual and couple therapist.
He is a clinical member and approved supervisor in the American
Association of Marriage and Family.
He received his Bachelors and Master’s degrees in Psychology
from Duquesne University and his doctorate in Human Relations from the
University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
During his career, he was in private practice in
Toronto, Ontario for three years, eleven years as a senior staff
therapist, supervisor, teacher and administrator at the Marriage
Council of Philadelphia at the University of Pennsylvania, School of
Medicine (now the Council for Relationships, an independent clinic),
four years as Director of the Couple and Family Therapy Program at
Crozer Chester Medical Center and presently the founder and Clinical
Director of Centra.
Currently, he is on faculty in the graduate school of Social Policy
and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania.
For five years, he was on faculty at Hahnemann – Drexel
University’s doctoral Couple and Family Therapy program and is a
visiting lecturer at the London Marriage Guidance Council, London,
England. Dr Monte has
lectured regionally and nationally on various aspects of couple
therapy, gender and life-cycle issues
Dr. Monte is also a founder and principal of the Family
Solutions Group. FSG is a
family business and family office consulting firm.
He is active in the Family Firm Institute – the national
organization of family business consultants.
During the past ten years, he has given workshops in over
twenty-five business schools around the country on the personal side
issues of family business. Presenting
at national and international family business conferences, legal and
financial advisory firms, Dr. Monte has focused on the unique issues
of fathers and sons working together – a particular area of interest
in his teaching and research. Also,
he has offered executive coaching services centered on the impact of
personality and background on upper management performance.
Dr, Monte is currently on faculty in the Next Generation
Institute of the Family Business Center of Loyola University in
Chicago, Illinois.
He has published articles and chapters on issues of
couple therapy and managing the relationship between fathers and sons
working together.