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Margaret Shapiro received her MSW from the University of Chicago and received post graduate training at Cambridge Hospital and Mass Mental Health Center in Boston and at the Council for Relationships. She is a licensed Clinical Social Worker in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, as well as an AAMFT Approved Supervisor. Before moving to Philadelphia she was Director of Social Work and Family Work at two Harvard teaching hospitals. She has been a practicing psychotherapist for 25 years.

She is the founding Director of the Couples Communication Program at CFR and currently sees clients at the University City Office and at Wynnewood. She is presently Co-Director of the Council for Dialogue, a new venture aimed at working with businesses and non-profits to promote conversations among staff about difficult and/or controversial subjects. Her specialties include working with communication issues, inter-ethnic couples, couples with concerns about how they discuss and manage finances, pre-marital couples, step-families, and parents experiencing difficulties with adult children. She also works with individuals. She has presented and written widely about the impact of financial issues on couples of all ages.

She maintains a full time practice including evening hours Mon-Thurs, and welcomes phone or e-mail introductory conversations.

Margaret Shapiro, LCSW can be reached at 215-382-6680 ext. 3118.