Professional Bio

Judy Stone-Goldman, Ph.D, is an Emeritus Senior Lecturer at the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of Washington, in Seattle, WA.  Dually credentialed as a speech-language pathologist and counselor, she had a long career teaching in the areas of child speech-language disorders, treatment methodology, and counseling, as well as working clinically with children and families in early intervention centers, schools, and clinics. Through her popular counseling course at the University and counseling workshops around the country, she taught students and professionals to understand and monitor boundaries as a key to managing challenges that arise in professional life, particularly in the interpersonal realm.  Following her retirement in 2007 she began seeing pediatric speech-language clients privately, which brought home to her the inevitable stressors, loss of boundaries, and consequential imbalance inherent in the work.  She discovered that she relied heavily on her longstanding writing practice to restore and maintain her balance.   In 2008 she founded The Reflective Writer to teach others to use writing as a tool for achieving personal-professional balance.  She currently offers workshops, presentations, and individual coaching on reflective writing and is eager to help other professionals learn this method of finding boundaries and balance.