Barry Ginsberg, PhD, ABPP, CFLE, who founded CORE in 1981, is the Director of the Center of Relationship Enhancement and of Ginsberg Associates (a child and family clinical practice). As a child and family psychologist, he has provided relationship enhancement therapy and enrichment programs to families and trained professionals throughout the USA and Canada since 1969. He is the originator of the parent-adolescent relationship development (PARD) program.

Dr. Ginsberg received the 2011 Research/Practitioners Award from The International Association of Marriage & Family Counselors, a division of the American Counseling Association at the National Conference in New Orleans. He is also the author of "Relationship Enhancement Family Therapy (John Wiley & Sons, 1997), and "50 Wonderful Ways to Be a Single-Parent Family (New Harbinger Publications, 2003).