Michael Boniello is a licensed clinical social worker in both Kansas and Missouri.  He has been in private practice for the past seventeen years in Prairie Village, Kansas where he has specialized in trauma recovery, sexual compulsivity, and the treatment of sex offenders.  Prior to establishing his own practice, he served as program manager of adolescent sex offenders at Wyandotte Mental Health Center and as a staff clinician on the adult sex offenders unit.  In addition to his clinical practice, he has consulted with a number of agencies including Social and Rehabilitation Services (KS), the Division of Family Services
(MO), and Lansing Correctional Facility.  He has also presented at numerous conferences on the state, national and international levels.  He has been a faculty member at the University of Kansas for the past ten years where he has taught Clinical Social Work Supervision, Advanced Clinical Practice, Mental Health and Psychopathology and Social Work with Traumatized Populations. At present, he is studying the effects of positive fathering on child development and is hoping to incorporate his findings into his clinical and academic practice.