Patricia Gorman, Ed.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Marriage and Family Therapy
Contact
Phone: 860.231.5321
E-mail:
pgorman@sjc.edu
Dr. Patricia Gorman encourages and challenges her students. After all, the graduate program she helps drive is designed to turn them into professionals. "I'm there to help students become marriage and family therapists. Our program attracts many adult students and I help them integrate their past experiences, both personal and professional, with the new career skills that they're learning."
Dr. Gorman was drawn to family therapy because she wanted to make a difference. She says, "I found that family therapy is a very powerful way of creating change, particularly for children. You help children by helping the whole family. It can change people's lives." Appreciative of the way Saint Joseph College supports and encourages service to others, Dr. Gorman dreams big: "I look for what is possible in my students and I encourage them to look for what's possible in the families they work with. The goal is to serve, and it's important to enhance that ability in a student so they know that they can help to repair the world."
Dr. Gorman uses all areas of her life to augment her teaching, whether it's her private practice, living in a foreign culture, raising her own children, or practicing qi gong, an ancient mind-body healing system from China that attempts to cultivate inner energy from a combination of slow movements, meditation and breathing exercises. "Every time I try to pick up a new skill, I learn more about how I can teach beginners. The reward is seeing students go off and become professionals themselves. We have a high rate of people being hired immediately out of our program."
Degrees
Ed. D., University of Massachusetts
M. Ed., Lesley University
B.S., University of Wisconsin
