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Over the years working with Michele, I learned to admire just how skillful she was in administrating our organization. It is not an exaggeration to say that Michele carried the history of NCSPP. As volunteers moved in and out of Board positions every year or so, it was Michele who best understood their role, the duties each was facing, and how things had been done in the past. In psychoanalytic terms (although she was always the first to say she was not trained in the field), she held the frame for our organization. And, like a good clinician, she would observe changes that the organization was going through without judgment and offer commentary when asked.
I'd like to think that this organization's psychoanalytic focus influenced her over time, but it's probably closer to the truth to say that Michele's steadfast professionalism positively shaped NCSPP.
— Peter Silen, Ph.D.
When I think of Michele McGuinness and her huge contribution toward developing fort da over the decades, I think of the two of us sitting side by side at her computer in her cozy home office twice a year, at the end of the production cycle for each issue. Back in those days, I would “ride shotgun” with her as we made the last corrections to the issue, “putting it to bed” before we sent it to the printer. Not only did Michele put up with my nitpicking edits, I also had the added pleasure of seeing her children grow up in 6-month segments.
Without Michele's expertise — moving us from labor-intensive, hardcopy manual editing to a highly sophisticated, computerized typesetting program, and making the issues accessible to NCSPP members online — fort da definitely would not be the journal it is today. I sincerely thank her for being an integral part of the fort da family.
— Patricia Marra, MFT