Dr. Mary Bradford Ivey, Vice President of Microtraining Associates, has three areas of expertise and experience - writing, independent consulting and school guidance. Her master’s degree in counseling was earned at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She earned her doctoral degree in organizational development at the University of Massachusetts where she worked closely with Kenneth Blanchard, author of the well-known One-Minute Manager.

Dr. Ivey received national recognition in 1988 when her elementary counseling program at the Fort River School was named one of the ten best in the nation at the Christa MacAulliffe Conference. She is co-author of eight books plus numerous articles, translated into several languages. In addition, she has produced a number of videotapes illustrating counseling and therapy strategies including the popular video Counseling Children and the new Counseling Latina/o Children: Brief Approaches with Nini Vazquez and Luis Vazquez.

Mary Ivey has taught or held appointments at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Keene State College, the University of Hawaii, Manoa, and Flinders University, Australia. She has lectured widely throughout the U.S., Mexico, Canada, Europe, Asia, and the South Pacific. Recently, she has applied the developmental model to the positive treatment of children with special attention to issues of child abuse. She is an NCC counselor and a licensed mental health counselor. One of her specialties is applying consultation skills to school and management environments.

Spirituality and multicultural counseling is a recent extension of Mary and Allen Ivey’s work on interviewing skills plus multicultural and developmental thinking. Mary Bradford Ivey’s most recent writing has been on multicultural issues and a theoretical/practical approach for working in a positive developmental frame with so-called “pathology” and DSM-IV. latest book is Developmental Counseling and Therapy: Wellness Over the Lifespan with Mary Bradford Ivey, Jane Myers, and Thomas Sweeney.