SHARI BOTWIN, LCSW
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Botwin opened her Cherry Hill private practice in 1996. Prior to starting
her own practice Shari worked at the Renfrew Center in Philadelphia. She provides individual, group and family therapy with a specialization in treating trauma, abuse, eating disorders, anxiety and depression. Her second book, Thriving After Trauma: Stories of Living and Healing, will be published this fall by Rowman and Littlefield. Shari has been featured on the nationally known podcast, One Tough Muther with Gloria Allred. She was named the One Tough Muther Team therapist after this show aired. Shari was also a featured guest on Radio Europe's, Spotlight to talk about overcoming shame and breaking the silence after sexual assault and abuse. In March of 2018 Shari presented a Keynote Presentation to a sold out house for Monte Nido on the role of an eating disorder in staying stuck in trauma and abuse. Shari is a feature freelance writer for The Authority Magazine and has published op eds on the Cosby sentencing, the Pennsylvania priest sexual abuse scandal and Mel B's struggle with PTSD and addiction. Moments after Cosby's verdict came in Shari gave commentary on CBS, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, CBS This Morning, CTV and she published a feature editorials on Medium and Thrive Global.and The Independant. Last December Shari was quoted in an Associated Press article on the revictimization of assault victims article which syndicated in the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, ABC National Newswire, The Toronto Star and 250 other media outlets. A day before Time Magazine named the Silence Breakers as People of the year Shari published a feature called The Incredible Story of Shari Botwin and the Cosby Women in the Huffington Post. |
Media Interviews
Shari has been interviewed by most major national media outlets including CBS National News, CNN, Fox News, NBC and ABC Philadelphia and NPR radio. She has given commentary on the Cosby retrial, Marjorie Stoneman shooting, Larry Nassar abuse tragedy, recent killings after domestic violence, #Metoo and the Las Vegas massacre.
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Publications Shari has published features and given expert testimony for the Associated Press, Huffington Post, LA Times, New York Times, Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Newsworks, The Wrap, Las Vegas News Journal and Toronto Star on the Harvey Weinstein sexual assault scandal, She is a freelance writer for The Authority Magazine and has published op eds on Mel B and the sexual abuse scandal by Pennsylvania priests.
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Podcasts Shari has completed four global podcasts on Mental Health News Radio on trauma and abuse. To listen to one of her previous podcasts on the connection between trauma and eating disorders. She will be going back on One Tough Muther with Gloria Allred this October.
Go to www.onetoughmuther.com to listen to her latest show with one of the original Jane Doe's in the Cosby sexual assault case |