Alyce LaViolette is a pioneer in the field of partner violence. She has worked with battered women since 1978, with six of those years in the Long Beach WomenShelter. In 1979, she developed Alternatives to Violence, one of the first programs in the country to work with men who abuse women in intimate relationships and also one of the first men's programs to originate as a shelter program.

Ms. LaViolette developed the first domestic violence training program for the Los Angeles Department of Probation and provided that program statewide. She has also developed training programs for the Los Angeles and Orange County Departments of Children and Family Services. She is a frequently requested conference and keynote speaker both nationally and internationally. She has consulted with the Japanese Government on the creation of domestic violence policies.

In 1984, she took her program into private practice. She runs programs for men who batter and does individual therapy for battered women as well as a broad-based private practice. She continues to specialize in family violence, gender and anger and adult survivors of both stranger and intimate violence.

Alyce has consulted with individuals, agencies and corporations. She serves as an expert witness for the court for criminal and civil cases. She has consulted for media presentations and has appeared on CNN, PBS specials, the Tom Snyder Show, Maury Povich Show and Kathleen Sullivan Show and documentaries including Lifetime's "Hidden Victims: Children of Domestic Violence". She has been heard on local and national radio.

Ms. LaViolette is one of Sage Publication's best-selling authors. She has co-written It Could Happen to Anyone: Why Battered Women Stay, and a parenting curriculum for the California courts. She also wrote a chapter in the book Domestic Violence's Offenders and numerous articles.

She is a founder and co-chair of the California Association of Batterers' Intervention Programs and a member of the California Partnership to End Domestic Violence. She has received numerous honors and awards including proclamations from the State of California, the County of Los Angeles and the "Lifetime Achievement Award" from the Statewide California Coalition on Battered Women.

Alyce earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology and a Masters degree in Community Clinical Psychology from California State University in Long Beach. She is a licensed marriage and family therapist.


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