Sharon Rabb, PhD, is founder and Executive Director of the Center For The Empowerment or Families, Inc. (CEF.)
Dr. Rabb is a Clinical Psychologist and Licensed Marriage, Family Therapist with over twenty-five years of working with families in private practice and in community settings.
Dr. Rabb has a Masters in Education and Special Education with two life credentials. She has a Masters in Theology and supervises residents and interns in pastoral counseling at the Claremont School of Theology where she serves as a Senior Staff member at The Clinebell Institute. She is a national presenter at conferences on topics related to African Americans and family life, relationship issues, effective interventions with ex-felons, Post-traumatic Stress among innercity youth and other topics related to marginalized populations. Dr. Rabb specializes in leadership training to clergy and laity and she mediates disputes for faith-based organizations. In an attempt to diminish the recidivism rate with those released from prison, Dr. Rabb and her staff developed a cutting-edge method to mend and bond broken relationships.
As Director of Mental Health to a prominent innercity community youth organization, Dr. Rabb and her staff provide counseling, education and training to youths and their families that uplift the legacy of healthy families of color.
Our Mission
The Center For The Empowerment of Families (CEF), a 501(c)3 organization, is a community based organization that empowers people of color and other groups in the undeserved populations to build and sustain healthy family lifestyles-emotionally, physically, economically, socially and spiritually, that will reverberate throughout their communities.
