Parent advice from a mutant - a therapist and the world's most experienced parent;
she cared for 366 teens needing short-term foster care.

Katherine Gordy Levine is a wife, mother, grandmother and one time foster mother.
She and her husband offered short term care for teens in trouble with the law. She is also a licensed therapist.

Before becoming a foster parent, she directed the Social Service Department at Woman's Hospital in New York and then became an Assistant Professor at Columbia University.

Following her years as a foster parent, she directed mental health crisis teams in the most poverty ridden areas of NYC. She also continued teaching as an adjunct professor at Columbia University and Smith College.

Katherine has spoken at close to 60 seminars, workshops and events. A sought after guest speaker she has spoken on topics such as family support, children's mental health, anger management, family violence, parenting, intervention, self care and emotional fitness. She has been a guest speaker with the Institute on Psychiatric Services American Psychiatric Association, American Public Health Association, NASW's Annual Conference, and she has spoken at universities across the country, from Portland to Washington.

She is the founder of Emotional Fitness Training, Inc. and describes herself as the C.E.O. and Jill of All for that company.