Joyce Dolberg Rowe

Joyce Dolberg Rowe M.Ed., LMHC, is a professional counselor, coach, and author. She is an expert in developing human potential by helping you to solve problems in new ways. A Licensed Mental Health Counselor, she offers you the benefit of 30+ years of experience and expertise.

She has coached and counseled thousands of individuals, couples, families and groups, and taught and presented at conferences internationally. She is an author in her field and has contributed to her profession by holding leadership positions in Professional Associations. As two-term Past President of the Massachusetts Mental Health Counselors Association, former Director of Continuing Education for the Massachusetts Hypnosis Society, and member of the American Mental Health Counselors Association, she has been active in the professional organizations of her field since 1980.

Because Joyce has consistently taken a holistic and behavioral approach to lifestyle medicine both professionally and personally, her work in and for Behavioral Nutrition is a natural evolution and extension of who she is, what she does, and how she does it. Living a balanced lifestyle, developing inner strength and resilience, receiving proper psycho-education, and learning to change the way that you think is part and parcel of a comprehensive program of self-healing: mentally, physically, and emotionally. This is the heart of what Joyce Dolberg Rowe brings to her work as Director of Clinical Services for The Door is Open Counseling Center & Holistic Health Center, The Inner Power Development Centre, and The Mars & Venus Counseling Center.

Dolberg Rowe brings a balance of coaching and counseling approaches, personal growth and wellness models, and healthy relationship systems to her direct work with clients, team members, and to supervision of interns and trainees.

Additionally, being personally trained by Dr. John Gray, acclaimed author of the world-wide best selling book Men Are from Mars, Women Are From Venus, Joyce is Director of the Mars & Venus Counseling Center in Quincy, MA, and provides counseling to individuals and couples, and delivers content-rich, entertaining, and interactive, presentations, seminars, and keynote addresses that facilitate improving communication.

Ms. Dolberg Rowe developed, founded and proudly delivers her Awareness Anger Management Program that have been offered to Boston Public School Teachers on retreat, to groups of middle and high school students referred by courts and schools, and adults to fulfill court requirements.

Joyce Dolberg Rowe is a recognized speaker on relationship skill building. Among other accomplishments, she was a keynote speaker for the American Association of Advertising Account Executives World Conference, presenter and panel moderator of the ICI International Conference, was chosen to present for the Boston Business Expo, Redbook & Macy's "Parenting" promotion, hosted 350 singles for a Mars & Venus on a Date event, and has been a guest lecturer multiple times for Norwegian Cruise Lines.

As a writer she maintained a Sexual Health Column in a woman's magazine during the 1980s and during 1997-1998 authored a Q&A for Wedding Day Magazine. Since 1999 she has contributed to articles and has been quoted in The Complete Woman, Woman's World, and her cases and interviews are regularly featured in Ladies Home journal's "Can This Marriage Be Saved" article.

Appearing on various TV Magazine programs and radio talk shows, Joyce has traveled extensively presenting on a wide variety of topics related to relationships. "I would have Joyce Dolberg Rowe on my show again in a New York second (a New Orleans second is what you might expect from the Big Easy). She's a delight to talk to, keeps me in stitches, but most importantly she knows her stuff."… Ed Clancy, talk show host, CBS New Orleans

Mother of two grown children, and a resident of Hull, MA, and Miami Beach, FL she enjoys life by the sea with her family, which includes Dolly and Pretty Boy: two eclectic parrots, and our teacup Maltese, Seraphina.