Cottor Consulting, Ltd.
15029 North Thompson Peak Parkway
Suite B111-625
Scottsdale, AZ 85260-2223
Phone: 480365-6071
E-mail: rscottor@cox.net
Sharon Cottor has been a psychotherapist, coach and consultant for more than 45 years. She shared a collaborative private practice with her husband, Bob Cottor, M.D., in Phoenix, Arizona, from 1971 until Bob retired from his clinical practice in 2007. Sharon was a pioneer and leader in marriage and family therapy in Arizona. She was the cofounder of the Institute for Creative Change in Phoenix in 1980, a community training program for health care, occupational development and education professionals designed to develop effective change practices in their work with individuals, couples, families, businesses and organizations. More than 300 therapists, coaches and consultants trained with Sharon at the Institute in a constructionist, collaborative, appreciative and relational-based approach to creative change during the 20 years that she was a lead trainer. Sharon received a special citation for Outstanding Contributions to the Field from the Arizona Association of Marriage and Family Therapy in 1992. She co-authored a chapter, Relational Inquiry and Relational Responsibility: The Practice of Change, in the book Relational Responsibility: Resources for Sustainable Dialogue, edited by Sheila McNamee and Ken Gergen and published by Sage in 1998.
Sharon's practice has evolved over 25 years into consulting regarding relationship, communications and conflict issues with individual, couple and business issues. She no longer has a mental health practice. Sharon focuses on creating new and satisfying futures with her clients while consulting with family businesses and nonprofit organizations. Sharon has a special interest in the art of positive living, positive aging and healthy relationships. She is known for her highly innovative relational and social constructionist approach to her work with creative change.
Sharon has been actively involved with the Taos Institute since its inception. She has been a Taos Associate since 1996. Sharon has served on the Board of Advisors to the Spirit of Enterprise Center at the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. She is on the Medical Advisory Council of Ryan House, a nonprofit organization in Phoenix that provides pediatric palliative care, end-of-life care and respite care in a home-like facility for families with children with life limiting conditions. Sharon also has been an active member since 1998 of a select business women's group in the Phoenix Metro area, Women At The Top (WATT).