Lisa Aronson Fontes is an American psychologist, author, activist and academic associated with the

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Biography

Fontes was born in New York City. She graduated from the

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and completed her undergraduate education in

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. In 2006 she was a

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in Argentina. She also earned a master's degrees in journalism from

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and a master's degree in psychology from

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. She earned a PhD in

counseling psychology Counseling psychology is a psychological specialty that encompasses research and applied work in several broad domains: counseling process and outcome; supervision and training; career development and counseling; and prevention and health. ...

from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1992. As of 2020, Fontes was a senior lecturer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst where she teaches in the University Without Walls program. An expert on sexual violence and coercive relationships, she is the author of four books and numerous scholarly journal articles on related subjects, blogs for ''

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, domesticshelters.org,'' and the

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, and consults to the

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. She testifies in legal cases related to child abuse, sexual harassment, and intimate partner abuse. Her books are Invisible Chains: Overcoming Coercive Control in Your Intimate Relationship; Interviewing Clients Across Cultures: A Practitioner's Guide; and Child Abuse and Culture: Working with Diverse Families, all published by Guilford Press. She edited the book, Sexual Abuse in Nine North American Cultures, published by Sage Press. Fontes has three grown children and one grandchild.

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