SPECIALTIES

Empowering Women, Life Management, Parenting

Credentials

ACSW, BCD, LICSW, MSW

About Bet MacArthur

Bet MacArthur MSW BCD is a seasoned and fearless therapist and coach, writer and business consultant. She is a recipient of the 2008 Peace and Justice Award given by the City of Cambridge MA, and is known by clients and friends to be warm, enthusiastic, respectful and spiritual. She is Clinical Director at Arena Group Coaching, past Director of Emergency and Admissions at an inner-city state hospital in Boston, and past Chair of her city's Commission for Persons with Disabilities. She is also past Chair of the Referral Service Commission for the MA Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers, where she now writes a monthly clinical column for "Social work FOCUS" newspaper. In her consulting career she has been helpful
to business clients in consumer product development, public communications, and marketing. She currently is public communications chair for a clinical professionals' society, and is guiding another clinical training institute in growing a membership organization for its community. In college, Bet was trained in writing, art, and the philosophy of science; before she entered consulting and human services, she did architectural research, and was a housing rehab evaluator. She has lived parts of her life in New York City and in tropical jungle villages. Today in her personal life, Bet is an artist, athlete, and parent. In 2002, she rode horseback across Scotland, and in 1999-2005 worked seasonally as a cowboy in Utah and Colorado.