Lark Eshleman, PhD, (“Doctor Lark” as many young friends call her), has loved her work in many phases of her life – as a children’s librarian, an elementary school principal, a school psychologist and for most of her career as a child, adolescent and family therapist specializing in addressing issues of child trauma, including neglect, abuse, loss of family, or integrating into a new family. She has created and teaches a community group therapy program for children of war, working with children and caregivers in Eastern Europe, most recently in Romania and Ukraine with children caught in the terror of losing family in the fighting.
Lark earned a Master’s Degree in Library Science from SUNY at Geneseo, a Master’s of Psychology and Certificate of School Psychology from Millersville U, and a Doctorate in Philosophy in Psychology from Union University. She has served on numerous boards, including ATTACh, and is a long-time member of the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress.
Ask Doctor Lark, “What is your life all about?” and she will undoubtedly say that it is about helping children and families, in person and through her published work, “Becoming a Family: Promoting healthy attachments with your adopted child,” or many published articles in various a column in Fostering Families, and through her 2-person coloring book, “Color Me Closer."