About CORE

Core is devoted to enhancing interpersonal communication, relationships, and family life. The Center's purpose is to serve as an educational resource to community members, professionals, institutions, and industry. The principles that underlie Core's mission are derived from the research and practice of Relationship Enhancement (RE) therapies and enrichment programs.
These principles are based on the beliefs that:

• A person's natural and significant relationships are the most effective and meaningful resource for growth and change;
• The power for creating and maintaining satisfying and fulfilling lives arises from the self-knowledge and self-mastery.
• The optimal environment in which change can take place is one that is accepting and non-judgmental.
  

 

About Barry G. Ginsberg, Ph.D.

Dr. Ginsberg, who founded Core in 1981, is the Director of the Center of Relationship Enhancement and of Ginsberg Associates (a child and family clinical practice). As a child and family psychologist, he has provided relationship enhancement therapy and enrichment programs to families and trained professionals throughout the USA and Canada since 1969. He is the originator of the parent-adolescent relationship development (PARD) program.

Dr. Ginsberg is the author RELATIONSHIP ENHANCEMENT FAMILY THERAPY (John Wiley & Sons, 1997), and 50 WONDERFUL WAYS TO BE A SINGLE-PARENT FAMILY (New Harbinger Publications, 2003) as well as numerous articles about relationship enhancement and family therapy.

Dr. Ginsberg is a Diplomat in:

• Family Psychology of the American Board of Professional Psychology,
• Academy of Family Psychology,
• The American Family Therapy Academy.

In addition, he is a:

• Clinical member and approved supervisor of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy,
• Registered supervisor/play therapist for the International Association for Play Therapy
• Nationally certified school psychologist.
• Faculty member and approved supervisor for the National Institute for Relationship Enhancement (NIRE)