Carol AKA Corky Becker, PhD is in private practice. Her practice and teaching has focused on the challenges of polarized conflict in couples and families. She taught at the Family Institute of Cambridge (1985-2024) and directed the Intensive Program in Systemic Therapy (1992-1999). She was a founding member (1989-2019) of the Public Conversations Project, whose mission was to apply family therapy approaches to work with divisive public issues. She taught and supervised family therapy at Cambridge Health Alliance(2009-2024), taught in the Intensive Program in Family Therapy at Therapy Training Boston (1985-2024)and developed the Masters Series in Couple Therapy (2014-2024). She held leadership positions at the American Family Therapy Academy(2005-2025); she was a founding member of The Kosovar Family Professional Education Collaborative (2000- 2006). She consulted to the the Project on Negotiation at Harvard Law School (1990-2018). She co-developed a multi-year family therapy training program in China (2019 to 2023).
