Carly Bosacker is Director of Therapeutic Services and a Licensed Clinical Psychologist at Therapy West, PLLC, a leading provider of therapeutic services to children, teens and families struggling with disruptive behaviors and anxiety. With several years of experience in counseling, evidence-based cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), research and evaluation, Carly helps to empower her patients and their families with the tools they need to manage and recover from anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, conduct problems, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and complex trauma.
 
While studying toward her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Carly worked in the juvenile detention system as a probation officer and counselor, helping youth to discover and develop cognitive skills and emotional tools to move beyond issues raised by neglect, abuse, waiting placement or diagnostic assessment, or minor delinquent offenses. Upon graduation, she relocated to the East Coast, where she spent a year as Research Assistant at the Yale School of Medicine and completed her Master of Arts in Psychology from The New School. In 2016, she completed her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.
 
Prior to joining Therapy West as a Postdoctoral Fellow in 2016, Carly served in a number of roles across the greater New York City and Philadelphia areas, including as adjunct faculty at Temple University, externships at Children’s Hospital of New Jersey of Newark Beth Israel Medical Center and the child Mind Institute, an internship at MercyFirst, and as post doc fellow at Therapy West/Academics West. She is a member of the American Psychological Association, and has presented at the Anxiety and Depression Association of America and the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.
 
Known for having a genuine and collaborative, Carly is able to build a rapport of trust and strength with her patients, fostering optimism and understanding to lead to impactful change and emotional resilience. Outside of her clinical endeavors, she is an active member of the community, and enjoys travel and reading.
 
Women’s Networking Association Member Carly Bosacker, PsyD can be found on the Association Directory, where she is looking forward to networking with you.
 

Harriet Jire has over 10 years of experience as a customer’s care specialist and a marketer in her previous job and in her current field. She owns the HARRIET JIRE fashion house. Designing beautiful custom clothes for each individual customer. Having always been fashion forward, she says it is simply in her blood. She is also the women choice relationship coach, motivational speaker and a writer.

Harriet holds a Master’s in Business Administration from Ambrose Alli University. She has published a book, The Night After Wedding, where you will find in every chapter, a plethora of principles, ideas and practical techniques that will enable you to harness the tremendous power of preparation before marriage. Harriet tells us that Marriage is a journey and like every journey, one needs a map showing potential areas of contours, valleys, faults and folds, towards reaching one’s destination successfully without asking for much direction from people who could mislead you on your way. In recent times, some single ladies are not well informed on what marriage entails, and this has led to avoidable disagreements in many homes to the extent of dissolution. It has become imperative that single ladies should be adequately and properly educated especially before and even during marriage to be able to fulfill God’s will in marriage. As we spend fortunes and resources training daughters in academic institutions, we should also invest our time, resources and prayers in preparing ladies for marital life.

Harriet is an advocate and founder of Raising Daughters Foundation, and is currently raising awareness of a “discussion we shy away from,” which is the challenge of menstruation and the obstacles women have to overcome. In her article, she brings to light how “menstruation remains one of the back-burner as a global health and development challenge.” Harriet is launching a campaign for Raising Daughters Foundation, where sanitary pads will be donated to the less privileged ones. The foundation is based around the fact that when you hold girls and women back from progress, you hold the world back.

Harriet continues to strive to make a difference for women around the world through fashion, advocacy, skills acquisition, counseling and resources for women who desire knowledge and community.

Women’s Networking Association Member, Harriet Jire, MBA, can be found on the Association Directory, where she is looking forward to networking with you.
 

Aviva Friedman is the Founder and Owner of A.M. Friedman LTD., where she is a Private Therapist. She founded the practice in 1990, and specializes in Solution-focused Consultation for individual patients, couples and families. She helps improve patient management of setbacks, hardships and blocked feelings, and provides many methodologies for patient care.

Aviva was also a supervising organizational consultant for the Ministry of Education Headquarters, Jerusalem, and kept working as a personal coach and organizational consultant to managers in large public organizations as well as for the private sector. She is also a mediator in collaboration with leading Law firms.

With over 25 years of experience in her career, Aviva is best known for her expertise in helping confused young adults, Career building, Crisis Innervation and women Empowerment in an Integrative perspective. In addition to her practice, she is Vice President of the Israel Association for Dynamic Positive Psychology, where she is responsible for the organizational counseling and career development, and family and couples therapy.

Aviva began her professional career as an organizational consultant for national governmental bureaus. Facing consulting challenges with normative adults who looked for excellent organizational solutions and less of long processes dysfunctions oriented. This changed her conceptual and academic approach by building a positive diagnosis, Strength based framework and empowering the organizational community. She realized that people wanted eye-catching, result- focused, brief sessions and workshops.  She gained her BA in Psychology and Social Psychology (without thesis) from Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, where she also studied short-term therapies methods in the School of Social Work, where she learned the tools that enabled her to provide adapted solutions. Gradually, she acquired a holistic approach, and began to specialize in Integrative Intervention approaches for 5 years. Since then she has been familiar with Humanistic approaches. Aviva is a licensed family and couples therapist (R.A. 2026).

Aviva went on to complete doctoral studies at Middlesex University in London. She is a member of the British Psychological Association (R.A. 447157) and a member of the Special Group for Coaching Psychology. She is currently a Ph.D. Candidate at Middlesex. She has also achieved psychology coaching diploma studies from the School of Social Work, Advance Studies, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel, and is a Certified Coach by the IACP, the Israeli Association for Coaching Psychology (R.A. No. 580515880) and Certified Coach by the ISCP, and the International Society for Coaching Psychology.

In her doctoral research, she came across a phenomenon she called “Sticky Floor“, a phenomenon in which young, educated, financially motivated women are preventing themselves from vertical advancement because of fears, prejudices and pressures. She began to take interest in this challenge because most of the participants in her study were women from different socio-demographic segments of the population, the female issue rose in a bouncy way.

She is deepening the tracking of this phenomena as part of her PhD thesis.  It is an important mission to deal with the challenges of postmodern women’s lives both in terms of personal and career choices and identity. Aviva feels that it is in her power to pave new ideas and framework to promote women in leadership, happiness and success. For example, changing the ‘traditional way’ to perceive maternity leave and the prospect of this time serving as a lever for career change, rather than a loss of identity. She looks forward to presenting and sharing her own work and thoughts, and to take part in the careers and personal lives of other women.

Women’s Networking Association Member, Aviva Friedman, can be found on the Association Directory, where she is looking forward to networking with you.
 

Ms. Branch assumed her role as Project Consultant at the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) in March 2017. As a Project Consultant her day to day responsibilities include partnering with relevant government officials and entities to build relationships and enhance public transit in CTA’s service areas and work with non-profit and community organizations. She also consults with clients, determine business needs, provide improvement solutions, and offer support to project teams and contractors. Her expertise demonstrates excellence in communication and interpersonal skill; attention to details, and teamwork. Additionally, Ms. Branch serves as a liaison between CTA’s suburban municipalities and the agency. She builds awareness and support of CTA’s initiatives with community stakeholders, attend community meetings and provides various outreach duties.
 
Prior to her current role, Ms. Branch served eight years in the federal government working under former President Barack Obama in both 2008 and 2012 administrations. she was the Director of Special Projects and Special Assistant to the Senior Adviser to the President, Valerie B. Jarrett. In this role she oversaw and executed a variety of projects designed to support Ms. Jarrett in her roles as head of the Offices of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs and as Chair of the White House Council on Women and Girls.
 
Ms. Branch has been a key member in her department, where she played a vital part in its work to promote the President’s agenda. At the end of President Barack Obama’s administration, she returned home to a local government agency to continue her work as a public servant.
Ms. Branch chose to be a part of the Women’s Networking Association because she has the mind-set of offering support and encouragement to people and to help them reach their full potential. She is always willing to assist in the growth, learning and building of respect in other individuals which aids in developing confidence in themselves. Ms. Branch shares her story with other women to encourages them on ways to overcome challenges.
Ms. Branch overcame several obstacles including being seriously ill and desires to let others know that success is possible if we put in the hard work despite the challenges. Ms. Branch is an outgoing, energetic and curious person. Her energy is drawn by being in the company of others and she seeks social connections and leadership opportunities.
 
Ms. Branch served as the Grand Marshall at the 2016 Bud Billiken Parade in her home town of Chicago; was featured in an article in Essence Magazine titled 29 Powerful Black Women of the White House (2015) and BET Mothers of the White House (2012). Ms. Branch holds a Masters Degree in Public Administration from University of Phoenix (2018), a Bachelors of Science in Management Degree from University of Phoenix (2012) and a Foreign Policy Certification from Georgetown University (2012). She enjoys spending time with her granddaughter, who is seven.
 
Women’s Networking Association Member, Katherine Y. Branch, can be found on the Association Directory, where she looks forward to networking with you.
 

Dr. Hayat Khogali is currently the Supervisor of the Expanded Program on Immunization for the Ministry of Public Health in Qatar.  She is a Public Health Consultant, holds a doctoral degree in community medicine / public health and is a Medical Epidemiologist with a Masters in Epidemiology and Biostatistics.

Dr. Khogali has worked in many different positions, having more than ten years of progressive experience in the field of public health with focus on communicable disease surveillance, outbreak investigation and control, and a special interest on vaccine preventable diseases. She also has expertise in Humanitarian Emergency & Response, Implementation of IHR core capacities, immunization programs, HIV/AIDS, planning, monitoring and evaluation. She worked with Sudan FMOH as a Head of the National Epidemiology & Zoonotic Disease Program, and is a known leader in the health community, serving on numerous initiatives designed to improve public health outcomes.

Throughout her career, Dr. Khogali has worked to develop strategies and solutions that will make a difference in public health. She addresses challenges in innovative ways that will help improve the health of citizens on a global scale.

Dr. Khogali believes in multi-disciplinary, multi- cultural teams, which value the coordination and collaboration between different sectors. She made remarkable efforts in implementing efficient and effective coordination activities between different parties in regards to IHR, One Health Concepts, and Integrated Surveillance. She is diligent in keeping up with the latest research in the field of public health, as well as knowledge transfer.

Public health is complex and multi-dimensional. With a global vision, Dr. Khogali continues to conduct research, contributing to environments and conditions for health strategies around the world. Well known for her leadership, research, and commitment to continuous learning and advancement in her profession, she looks forward to networking and collaborating with like-minded professionals.  She speaks fluent English, Arabic and some French, and enjoys reading, dancing and networking in her spare time. She resides in Qatar, where she remains dedicated to the field of public health.

Women’s Networking Association Member, Dr. Hayat Khogali, can be found on the Association Directory, where she is looking forward to networking with you.