Meet the Authors
Marci Wolff Ober, LMFT
Marci Wolff Ober, LMFT, is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, mental health educator and advocate, with over thirty years of wide-ranging clinical experience. Professionally licensed in three states, Marci was a pioneer for MFT licensure in the state of Alaska and has served on the Executive Board of the New Jersey Association of Marriage and Family Therapists. Marci has had the pleasure of working with a wide variety of people in various states and settings, holding roles ranging from Therapist to Clinical Director of a major psychiatric hospital, and is also a certified yoga teacher. For the last twenty five years, Marci has concentrated her efforts on her private practice, Alternatives Family and Counseling Services in Northern New Jersey, and now works virtually with individuals, couples, and families all over the world.
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Courtney Jessica Ober
Courtney Ober is a college student majoring in social work, working towards continuing her education as a Ph.D. candidate in clinical psychology. Courtney has earned her CDA (child development associate certificate), and founded a small business that provides teaching support and enrichment activities for elementary age children. Courtney’s goal is to become a college professor, researcher, and to help others who suffer from mental illness. Courtney has experienced the pain and confusion of dealing with mental health challenges at a young age, and has come out of KrazyLand stronger, wiser, and full of hope and compassion. Courtney shares her poignant story and unique perspective about what it takes to be mentally healthy and well as a teenager and young adult in our current age of artificial Insta-Perfection, where what you see is not always what you get. The truth Courtney shares is raw, vulnerable, uncut, and without any filters.
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Marci believed that her own Krazy past was far behind her, until the torch was unknowingly passed to her daughter Courtney. Even with all of her professional knowledge and experience, navigating the long and painful road out of KrazyLand as a mom was the most difficult and important challenge of her life. Now on the other side of this long and painful journey, Marci and Courtney share everything they have learned in order to help anyone who struggles, whether personally affected or a loved one trying to help. Providing valuable insight and meaningful assistance, with deep understanding and a healthy dose of humor, The KrazyGirls Survival Guide, The KrazyGirl Project and The KrazyGirl Foundation are the culmination of Marci’s life’s work and passion for helping others. Combined with Courtneys desire to help young people who are dealing with the pain of mental health challenges, this guidebook is unique-part memoir, part how to manual, fully engaging and entirely useful.