06/19/2026
Zan Struebing is a psychologist, teacher and advocate for the LGBTQ+ community. Having started her career in the 80’s as an elementary educator, she has continuously guided youngsters, along with their parents and teachers, in academic, hospital, and community settings. Her roles as psychologist and counselor have taken her to private practice, universities, and K-12 public schools. During a lengthy stint at a K-8 independent school, she developed and led programs in positive parenting, mindfulness, and character education--at home and in Nepal. She has served as an adjunct professor of Counseling and General Psychology. Zan has a passion for speaking and writing to spark human connection, but what she loves most is facilitating healing, compassion-focused conversation. Her expertise in parenting has been consistently applied professionally and at home, raising 3 bio children (and 1 bonus son) and attending their Back to School nights for over 25 consecutive years. With the addition of a daughter by marriage and a spectacularly glowing grandbaby, Zan and Jim, her husband of 38+ years, bask in the beauty of these precious gifts.
Zan was raised in the Lutheran Church in the midwest and continued to practice in that style until she arrived at CPC 10 years ago. She maintains an ecumenical connection, continuing to offer informal support and formal inservice opportunities for clergy in conjunction with The House Next Door in Princeton Junction. Her current participation in Session at CPC coincides with her commitment to facilitate a wide welcome to God’s children of all identities, escorting them into the assurance that they are loved, precious and created in the image of the Divine.
