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Marriage counseling can be a complete waste of time and money, according to relationship expert, Beatty Cohan. A nationally-recognized psychotherapist, Cohan contends that if people only knew what to look for in another person (and what to avoid), there would be far fewer break-ups and divorces. Cohan is author of For Better, For Worse, Forever: Discover the Path to Lasting Love, which she co-wrote with her husband Elliot, and writes an Ask Beatty column for numerous papers. She's a public speaker, operates a private practice and was appointed to Florida's Commission on Marriage and Family Initiatives by Governor Jeb Bush.

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Relationship expert, Beatty Cohan, MSW, LCSW, is a nationally-recognized psychotherapist and author of For Better, For Worse, Forever: Discover the Path to Lasting Love. With over 30 years of experience, Cohan helps people choose the right mate, permanently resolve relationship and marital problems, and literally find lasting love. Visit www.AskBeatty.com for more.

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About Beatty Cohan, MSW, LCSW

BEATTY COHAN, MSW, LCSW, is a nationally recognized psychotherapist and author who is in private practice in Sarasota, Florida. She has a Master’s degree in Clinical Social Work from McGill University in Montreal, Canada and has post-graduate specialization in marital and family therapy and sexual dysfunction. She has had over 35 years of clinical experience, including extensive national television and radio experience and has published numerous articles in newspapers and magazines (nationally and locally)and given hundreds of lectures and workshops on relationships. In 2004 Governor Jeb Bush appointed her to Florida’s prestigious Commission on Marriage and Family Initiatives.

Beatty writes ASK BEATTY advice columns for local newspapers and for Match.com. She recently was selected to be the ‘Relationship Editor’ for Over - 50 Online Magazine. She is currently ABC television’s (Sarasota) affiliate on-air resident psychotherapist, where she has a live call-in show on the news. She had been ABC television’s (Tampa) resident psychotherapist for the past 3 years where she had a live ASK BEATTY segment on the news. She provided psychological commentary and analysis around “hard” news stories. Her most recent national television experience was on COURT TV., covering the Joseph Smith murder trial in Sarasota. She began her on-air relationship with COURT TV in 2005.

Beatty has hosted her own radio and television call-in shows and was resident psychotherapist and sex therapist for ABC T.V. in Providence, Rhode Island for several years and was also used as an expert media resource for NBC and FOX in Boston. Her national debut came in 2000, when she appeared on several national television and radio shows to promote her book, For Better, For Worse, Forever -Discover The Path To Lasting Love (Chandler House press1999, AuthorHouse 2004 2nd ed.). Beatty has been interviewed by dozens of magazines nationally (including Ladies Home Journal, Parents and Cosmopolitan) who seek her expert advice in the area of relationships.

She has competed in amateur sports in Canada on the provincial and national levels in figure skating, tennis, badminton and table tennis, where she captured numerous titles in all of these sports. Beatty’s greatest achievement however, is having a wonderful and loving relationship with husband Elliot and with her 23-year old daughter Jordana, who is a theatre student in England.