M.C. Lishay is a life skills coach at Elite Life Skills Coaching. Lishay has more than 20 years of experience in the child welfare field and has provided individual and group counseling to children and adolescents in transitional living programs, group homes, shelters, and foster care homes - all while working under the direct supervision of licensed clinical professional counselors and clinical psychologists. Lishay earned the following degrees and certification from Roosevelt University in Chicago, Illinois: a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology; a Master of Arts degree in clinical professional psychology; and a graduate certificate in Clinical Child and Family Studies. Lishay also has studied at the Illinois School of Professional Psychology, now Argosy University, and earned licensure as a Child Welfare Service Employee (CWEL) and a Childhood Severity of Psychiatry Illinois (CSPI) Graham Certificate from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Policy Program. Due to Lishay's frequent contact with families and the juvenile court, Lishay later earned certification as a paralegal from DePaul University.