Stuck at the Starting Line: A Coming of Age Story

About the Author Susan Owre Gelberg, Ph.D., has been a psychologist for thirty years. In her private practices, she often worked with teenage girls and boys as well as young adults who were struggling with anxiety issues that surrounded the process of entering into healthy romantic relationships. In Stuck at the Starting Line, she incorporates professional clinical insights as well as understandings gained from some of her own difficult personal experiences during her high school years. She also provided psychological, consulting, supervision, and teaching services in university counseling centers, hospitals, a psychiatric institution, a prison, businesses, community mental health centers, a substance use disorder treatment center, and a family counseling center. She has also made a number of professional presentations on topics that include multicultural counseling. Finally, over the course of her career, she has published journal articles and books on mental health issues. Now retired, she lives in Oregon with her husband of more than 50 years. Their mountaintop home borders a 13,500 acre forest, where they take daily walks with their two bouncy, joyful golden retrievers. She now focuses on revising the other manuscripts for children and young adults that she wrote before she became a psychologist.