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Elizabeth Bach-Van Valkenburgh serves as a Lecturer at Case Western Reserve University's Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, maintaining active clinical practice as a licensed independent social worker (LISW-S) and Certified Negotiation Manager (CNM) specializing in trauma therapy and family systems.
Her educational foundation includes:
- Bachelor's degrees in Philosophy, Religion, and Women's Studies from Stephens College, Columbia, Missouri
- Master of Science in Social Administration (MSSA) with adult mental health concentration from the Mandel School
- Six years of postgraduate training at the Gestalt Institute focusing on family/couples systems
- Certified Negotiation Manager credential from the Mandel Center
Her clinical expertise spans trauma therapy for adults and older adults, marriage and family therapy, divorce mediation, and violence intervention. As a statewide educator in collaborative divorce models and continuing education provider for Ohio's behavioral health boards, she integrates 25 years of frontline crisis response experience—including psychiatric emergency services, mobile crisis teams, and Cleveland Rape Crisis Center leadership—into evidence-based teaching practices that emphasize multi-systemic change.
Bach-Van Valkenburgh operates a private practice in Solon, Ohio while teaching, crediting students with keeping her engaged through their interpretation of social work methodologies. Her professional philosophy centers on social work's multidisciplinary capacity to foster growth across individual, family, and community systems.
