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Barb Elgin, (AKA 'Coach Sappho'), MSW, LCSW-C, is a Certified Singles Coach, health care professional and business owner with almost 20 years of combined experience as a licensed clinical social... View More

Barb Elgin, (AKA 'Coach Sappho'), MSW, LCSW-C, is a Certified Singles Coach, health care professional and business owner with almost 20 years of combined experience as a licensed clinical social worker, relationship and business coach, private practice psychotherapist, author, community activist, motivational speaker and trainer.

Ms. Elgin's vision, ability to adapt, breadth and depth of knowledge and experience in today's marketplace is rare. Her talents reveal the wisdom she's gained serving in a wide variety of settings, in both the public and private sector, within local, regional, national and globally-focused organizations whose constituencies face complex, continuously changing challenges.

Ms. Elgin keeps current in her rapidly evolving field by continuously educating herself. Recent studies include Alex Mandossian's Teleseminar Secrets, singles and couples coaching training at the Relationship Coaching Institute and business and life coaching studies with Coachville's Thomas J. Leonard School of Coaching.

Prior to her coaching training, Ms. Elgin received post-LCSW supervision in Ericksonian Psychotherapy and completed hundreds of hours of post graduate continuing education in the social work and behavioral healthcare fields.

Ms. Elgin's expertise lies in providing relationship and business coaching to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered community. Many of her clients are independent and/or licensed professionals (attorneys, nurses, psychotherapists, respiratory therapists, coaches), small business owners and entrepreneurs as well as employees, managers and executives of various small, medium and large, profit and non-profit local, state and federal agencies as well as Fortune 100 companies.

For example, Barb's client list includes individuals and couples who are employed with companies like IBM, Levi Strauss, Boeing, Oracle, Honeywell, Hewitt Associates, JP Morgan Chase, Agilent Technologies, DirectTV, the U.S. Government (including military personnel), the States of Florida and Maryland, Baltimore Gas & Electric, ChevronTexaco, Genentech, Goodwill Industries, state and private colleges and universities, and many more.