Jane Bluestein PhD

Dr. Bluestein has worked with thousands of counselors, educators, healthcare professionals, parents, childcare workers, and other community members worldwide. She has appeared internationally as a speaker and talk-show guest, including several appearances as a guest expert on CNN, National Public Radio and The Oprah Winfrey Show. Dr. Bluestein specializes in programs and resources geared to provide practical and meaningful information, training and hope in areas related to relationship building, effective instruction and guidance, and personal growth and development.

Much of her work focuses on interactions between adults and children, especially children at risk. Jane is an award-winning author whose latest book is The Perfection Deception: Why Trying to Be Perfect is Sabotaging Your Relationships, Making You Sick, and Holding Your Happiness Hostage. Some of her other books include Creating Emotionally Safe Schools; Parents, Teens, & Boundaries; and Magic, Miracles & Synchronicity: A Journal of Gratitude and Awareness. Formerly a classroom teacher (in inner-city Pittsburgh, PA), crisis-intervention counselor, teacher training program coordinator, and volunteer with high-risk teens at a local Day Treatment Program, Dr. Bluestein currently heads Instructional Support Services, Inc.