Lois Braverman, M.S.W.
Committee Chair , Bylaws
Committee Co-Chair, Fundraising
Past President, 7/03-6/05

Lois Braverman is the President of the Ackerman Institute for the Family in New York City. She maintains a private practice specializing in couple and family therapy. She serves on the editorial boards of several journals including Family Process, Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work and the Journal of Feminist Family Therapy.

Her many publications and international presentations challenge the assumptions implicit in major schools of family therapy about women's role in the family, in the workplace, and in the psychotherapeutic setting. Her special areas of interest are women's friendships and marital relationships, depression and marital dynamics, couple therapy with marginalized couples, and issues of power in couple therapy. She is founding editor of the Journal of Feminist Family Therapy and author of Women, Feminism and Family Therapy (Haworth Press).

Joining AFTA in 1984, she has served AFTA as President (2003-2005), Program Chair (1994, 2001), Membership Chair (1997-99), Secretary, (1995-97), Board Member, (1992-95), and Nominations Committee Chair (1990-91). She was the recipient of the American Family Therapy Academy's Innovative Contribution to Family Therapy Award in 1994.