Lecture/Guest Speaker
Beatty Cohan is a nationally recognized licensed psychotherapist, sex therapist, co-author of For Better for Worse Forever:  Discover the Path to Lasting Love, columnist,  national speaker, national radio and television expert guest and host of THE ASK BEATTY SHOW on the Progressive Radio Network.  She has a private practice in New York City and East Hampton.

Before moving to the United States Beatty worked in the Montreal Inner City Schools as a School Social Worker and later was appointed as a Director of Greater Montreal's School Social Services program.  She also worked at the Toronto Jewish Congress (Federation) as an Associate Planner and was the Executive Director of Jewish Family Services in Calgary. 

Beatty is the daughter of the late Edith and Maurice Sair.  She attended the Talmud Torah in Winnipeg, where her mother was a teacher.  She received her Bachelor's of Arts degree from the University of Manitoba and her Master's of Clinical Social Work degree (MSW) from McGill University in Montreal.  She has post-graduate specialization in marriage and family therapy and sexual dysfunction and has been in private practice for almost 40 years.

Beatty is happily married to Jim Vrettos, a sociologist, a former Yeshiva professor and host of The Radical Imagination, a New York City television show. She has a married daughter, Jordana, a three year-old grandson Jack and a therapy dog, Chacha.

"Returning to my Winnipeg roots as an educator is a dream come true".

Beatty Cohan