Tory Joseph is a Certified Parent Educator at the Parent Encouragement Program (PEP), who has been teaching parenting classes for 1​7​ years, including PEP’s 10 week core classes, and workshops on Anger Management, Siblings Without Rivalry, Helping Kids Take Responsibility at Home and School, Mindful Parenting, Emotion Coaching​ and Positive Discipline. She is Fund Development Chair​ and former President of the Board at PEP. Tory has a Masters Degree in Counseling from Boston University and a Post Masters Certificate in Clinical Community Counseling from Johns Hopkins University. She is a psychotherapist for the Imago Center of DC​, and lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with her husband. They have three grown children, ages 26, 24 and 20.