{"id":620,"date":"2015-01-14T18:51:31","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T18:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo.studiopress.com\/author\/?page_id=620"},"modified":"2021-11-11T13:21:23","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T13:21:23","slug":"about-samuel-benjamin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ladybugpublisher.com\/?page_id=620","title":{"rendered":"About the Author"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Patricia Smith, RSW,<\/b> is a registered clinical social worker, psychotherapist and a certified family and divorce mediator, specializing in individual, couples and family counselling and mediation.\u00a0 She has trained in the area of intensive sex therapy and has been in private practice since 2000.\u00a0 Her offices are at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/patricia-smith.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Haven of Hope<\/a>\u2026\u00a0 a successful counselling centre that she co-founded.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia has developed the comprehensive, innovated proven <a href=\"https:\/\/thevowfactors.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b><i>Vow Factors System<\/i><\/b><\/a> approach to premarital and marital counselling, with a view to reducing the chance of divorce for those couples who take part.\u00a0 This system has been used for many years in her private practice with considerable success.\u00a0 She is now sharing it with everyone through the writing of this book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patricia Smith, RSW, is a registered clinical social worker, psychotherapist and a certified family and divorce mediator, specializing in individual, couples and family counselling and mediation.\u00a0 She has trained in the area of intensive sex therapy and has been in private practice since 2000.\u00a0 Her offices are at\u00a0Haven of Hope\u2026\u00a0 a successful counselling centre that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":726,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-620","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladybugpublisher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladybugpublisher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladybugpublisher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladybugpublisher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladybugpublisher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ladybugpublisher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":732,"href":"https:\/\/ladybugpublisher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/620\/revisions\/732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladybugpublisher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladybugpublisher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}