Jude Treder-Wolff is a creative arts psychotherapist, writer, and performer. As president and founder of Lifestage, Inc., a training and consulting company,she and her husband design and facilitate creative, experiential training seminars for professionals in mental health, health care, education and business. She has developed courses for the Summer Institute Continuing Education program at State University at Buffalo and has been published in "The International Journal of Arts and Psychotherapy" – for a special issue on addiction and a special issue on HIV/AIDS – "Music Therapy Perspectives," "Clinical Social Work" and "Recovery Press." She is the editor of Lives In Progress Newsletter," is a leading expert on creativity and stress-resilience and has been featured in "Newsday," "Woman's Day" and "The Three Village Times."
 

 
A speaker/performer for the American Association for Therapeutic Humor, she does stand-up comedy as well as writes and performs one-person shows in NY at a variety of venues including the Laurie Beechman Theater, Danny's Skylight Room, The Duplex, Stand-Up New York, and New York Comedy Club, at Ovations Cabaret in Houston, and other clubs around the country. She studied acting and playwriting at the Bay Street Theater, in Sag Harbor, N.Y., and the 42nd Street Collective, and is an ongoing student and practitioner of applied improvisation. Treder-Wolff is an avid volunteer and has worked with organization such as Time for Teens, a nonprofit that helps teens deal with grief and loss; Habitat for Humanity, Creativity for Peace and Oxfam International. She currently resides in Smithtown, N.Y., with her husband. For information, visit http://www.livesinprogressnewsletter.blogspot.com