"If I have a blended family in need of coaching, I'll send them to you. " Coach Dee Kite

"I appreciate the work you do with families!  Thanks for being the voice that is needed"  Mark Hundley, Speaker, Author, Psychotherapist, Life Coach

"I wish I had an army of someone like you considering the kids I work with and the families.  Keep it up."- Jeff Wolfsberg, Teen and Family Expert, Speaker, Alcohol and Drug Educator

"I'll use your book, Blended Family Advice, with my clients, it's much needed."- Kara Tamanini, Therapist and Author

"Shirley Cress Dudley is one of the most caring professionals in the stepfamily arena I have had the privilege to speak with."  Tricia Powe, Talk Show Host-Stepfamily Straight Talk, founding director of StepFamily Straight Talk

"In Blended Family Advice, Shirley Cress Dudley lays out a step-by-step game plan for managing a blended family. You will be inspired by the real life success stories included and empowered to take action by the best practices outlined. I would highly recommend parents of teens with blended families read this book and more importantly, put it's concepts to practice. Think of it as your blended family owner's manual."  Josh Shipp, Author of The Teen's Guide to World Domination, TV Host of Jump Shipp, and Founder of HeyJosh.com

and The Blended and Step Family Resource Center

Shirley Cress Dudley is a licensed professional counselor (LPC #3922) and nationally certified counsleor (NCC #271819) with a master's degree in marriage and family counseling, and a master's degree in education. She has spent over 20 years counseling, coaching, leading workshops and speaking at conferences on marriage and family issues.

After becoming a stepmom, she realized that regular counselors and coaches can not possibly understand how hard it is to blend a family unless they have experienced it themselves. She also noticed that there aren't many good resources, online, and also several online coaches that are only educated with a certificate, and are giving help and advice to families.  Due to these experiences, her primary focus became helping blended and step families.  BlendedFamilyAdvice.com was her first website, started in 2006.

In 2009, she founded The Blended and Step Family Resource Center, with the goal of providing the most excellent resources to encourage, educate and empower blended and step families. In June 2009, Shirley added the service of telephone coaching to those who need individualized support.

Shirley Cress Dudley is the internationally known author of Blended Family Advice along with other resources for step moms and step dads.  She offers telephone coaching to blended and step families, along with those who are engaged to be married into a blended or stepfamily.  Her passion is to help people be the best they can be, and to keep marriages and families strong and successful.

You can find more information on Shirley Cress Dudley and The Blended and Step Family Resource Center by

• Reading her blog:  Blended Family Advice
• Following her on Twitter:  MarriageNFamily (over 34,000 followers)
• Follow her on Facebook: Shirley Cress Dudley and The Blended and Step Family Resource Center
• Follow her on Linked In and her Blended Family Forum Group

If you are interested in a television, radio or other media interviews, contact Shirley Cress Dudley at  Shirley@BlendedFamilyAdvice.com

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