Rocky’s Road

About the Book

Janice M. Beal, Ed.D., psychotherapist, author, radio and television personality, and lecturer. Dr. Beal is the clinical director/owner of Beal Counseling Associates and Clinical Program Director for the Child/ Adolescent Programs for Hope Bridge Hospital. Dr. Beal has more than twenty plus years of professional experience as a clinician treating the emotional needs of children, adolescents, and adults. She has been awarded numerous contracts and grants to provide counseling and consulting services to school districts, headstart programs, probation departments, and social service agencies. Over the past eight years she has been contracted to open three inpatient child/adolescent psychiatric units for free standing psychiatric hospitals. Providing psychiatric care to youth between the ages of four and seventeen years of age.

Dr. Beal is an accomplished writer, having published articles on teen pregnancy, self-esteem, violence and children, mental health, drug abuse, human trafficking, and minority issues. She has presented and lectured at over one hundred and ninety professional conferences. Rocky’s Road is the third therapeutic children’s coloring book. The other titles are„ A Boy Named Rocky‰ for the Children of Incarcerated Parents, and Bridge Over Troubled Waters which was developed for the Children of Katrina.

She is married to Dashiel J. Geyen, ED.D., MPH, and is the mother of one daughter Jasmine Louise.

About the Author