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Rita Esterly, Ph.D.
Rita Esterly has had the privilege in life to claim all of the following
titles: wife, parent, teacher, community volunteer, school counselor, psychological
consultant, seminar presenter, group facilitator, adjunct professor, psychologist,
mentor, life coach, and author.
Rita Esterly earned her Ph.D. in Educational and Counseling Psychology
from the University of Missouri- Columbia in 1991. Dr. Esterly has earned
four degrees from the University of Missouri including a Bachelor of Science
in Education, a Master of Education in Counseling, an Educational Specialist
with an emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy, and a Doctor of Philosophy
in Educational and Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in Group Procedures
and Child Development.
Over the past thirty years her career has included being a teacher in
junior high and high school, an assistant director of financial aids and
placement at a vocational technical college, an elementary and a junior
high school counselor in both the public and parochial schools, a high
school counselor in the public schools, and a parenting educator. Since
she obtained her doctorate degree, she has been an outpatient therapist
at a hospital, a university adjunct professor, a psychological consultant
for a division of the state department of education, and a psychologist
establishing her own private practice.
In her spare time, Dr. Esterly has been active in children’s community
theatre, as a sponsor of a high school Christian youth group, as a mentor
to Alpha Phi collegiate women in the area of scholarship, and as a Rotarian.
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