Mary Anne Pare

Mary Anne Pare is a child and family therapist and educator, working in private practice. Having now arrived at age 64, she is easing out of direct care and settling into the role of supervisor and consultant, with the goal of passing on the gifts she has received from 35 years of working with children and families. This also allows her to access more energy to follow her passions, which involve any kind of creativity: gardening, writing, singing, story-telling, painting, and any other expressive arts she can get her hands into.

Mary Anne’s most pleasurable creative pursuit is running workshops with her friend and colleague, Jenny Nash. Having painted, danced and sung together for many years, Jenny and Mary Anne developed a week-end story telling retreat for women, which is now entering its tenth year. As an eldest in a family of nine, Mary Anne missed out on alot of play in her childhood, but with Jenny and this circle of fwomen, she is having the funnest second childhood.