Business I coming home
Here To Stay
Family and friends a factor in return to Detroit.
Keri Guten Cohen
Story Development Editor
eff Betman didn't exactly plan to
move back to Detroit after living
in Boston, Mass., and Madison,
Wis. — but he's glad it worked out that
way.
The oldest of four sons of Maurice and
Bernice Betman of West Bloomfield, Jeff
now gets to be an active uncle to two niec-
es and two nephews who live nearby.
"Family is everything:' said Betman,
who is single. "I've always been close with
my nieces and nephews, but now I see
them more and do more with them. I can
watch them grow up and be part of their
lives. That's a big part of why I came back.
"When you are out of town — despite
fax, phone and e-mail — you miss the
day-to-day stuff. Now I get to baby-sit, go
to soccer games and karate testings — all
the things you miss when you are out of
j
town. It's great."
Betman is a graduate of Southfield High
School and the University of Michigan. He
and his brothers all were bar mitzvah at
Congregation B'nai David in Southfield.
Now his parents and one brother's family
belong to Congregation B'nai Moshe, so
that's where Betman goes for major holi-
day services.
At U-M, Betman took some psychol-
ogy classes and found they interested him
most, so he took more, eventually leading
to a career as a child psychologist. He pur-
sued his master's degree at the University
of Richmond in Virginia, then earned
his doctorate in clinical psychology at
Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck,
N.J.
Back in Detroit for a one-year intern-
ship at the now-closed Lafayette Clinic
in Detroit, Betman did a rotation into a
child-adolescent unit and liked it. That
began his focus on child psychology.
He continued his training
viewed and been offered
in this specialty during a two-
positions in other medical
year post-doctoral training at
settings in Metro Detroit,
McLean Hospital, which is part
he decided to try private
of Harvard Medical School in
practice.
Boston. He then joined the staff
"Once I decided, I moved
and stayed for nine years.
fast:' he said. He moved
"Boston was great — very
in August 2002 and hasn't
active, young, with lots of
looked back.
colleges:' he said. "And intel-
"I knew it would take
lectUally, some of the brightest
time to build a private
Jeff Betm an
people in the world live and
practice. Despite my train-
work there. I would attend
ing and experience, no one
lunch-and-learn sessions with
knew me here. It takes time
some really big names. It was very cool.
for people to find you, get to know you,
But it was expensive and crowded, with
then spread the word. Now it's going wer
too many psychologists competing. After a
At his Psychological Solutions Center
while, it didn't make sense."
office in Farmington Hills, he sees
So he moved and joined the staff at
patients. He also does work at Eton
the Dean Medical Center in Madison. He
Academy in Birmingham, a school for kids
remained for nine years before sensing
with learning differences; with Lawrence
that he needed to move on to another
Technological University's clinical counsel-
aspect of his career. Though he had inter-
ing services; and does educational testing
IZE IS P60UD TO
THE COMEBACK AWAR
CONGRATULATIONS JEFF BETMAN, PSYCHOLOGIST, ON RECEIVING THE COMEBACK AWARD!
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November 8 • 2007