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Books: Eating Mindfully

Tracy Alderman is director of research and a core faculty member at the University for Humanistic Studies, an adjunct instructor of psychology at Chapman University, and a staff psychologist for the California Department of Corrections. She consults, lectures, and writes on a variety of topics, including self-inflicted violence.

Books: Amongst Ourselves

Kelly C. Allison, Ph.D., was director of a recent study on NES at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. She is a clinical psychologist and instructor at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School.Allison received her BA from the University of Notre Dame in 1995 and he MA and Ph.D. from Miami University in 1997 and 2000, respectively. Along with researching treatment for night eating syndrome, she studies the sociocultural influences on eating disorders. She has appeared on television and is a frequent presenter at conferences.

Books: Overcoming Night Eating Syndrome

Martin M. Antony, Ph.D., is professor of psychology at Ryerson University in Toronto, ON. He is also director of research at the Anxiety Treatment and Research Centre at St. Joseph's Healthcare in Hamilton, ON. He has published twenty-one books and more than 100 scientific papers and book chapters in the areas of cognitive behavior therapy and anxiety disorders. He has received early career awards from the Society of Clinical Psychology (American Psychological Association), the Canadian Psychological Association, and the Anxiety Disorders Association of America, and is a fellow of the American and Canadian Psychological Associations. He is past president of the Anxiety Disorders Special Interest Group of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy (AABT, now Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies) and has been program chair for the AABT annual convention. He is actively involved in clinical research in the area of anxiety disorders, teaching, and education, and maintains a clinical practice. (www.martinantony.com)

Books: Overcoming Fear Of Heights, 10 Simple Solutions to Shyness; 10 Simple Solutions to Panic; The Shyness and Social Anxiety Workbook; When Perfect Isn't Good Enough; Overcoming Medical Phobias

John Argue is an actor, director, and theater arts teacher who has lived and worked in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1960. He has taught drama, movement and voice at U.C. Berkeley, S.F. State, and at the American Conservatory Theater. He worked as a drama therapist with children and adults in institutions during the 70’s and 80’s. In 1985 he began teaching movement and voice for people with Parkinson's disease at his studio, at Kaiser Permanente, and at other health facilities. His approach reflects his extensive training in yoga, tai-chi and dance. His method can improve flexibility, strength, balance, and coordination, help prevent falls, improve facial expressiveness and improve intelligibility of speech.

Books: Parkinson's Disease and The Art of Moving

Christopher R. Auer, MA, is employed in the Mayor’s Office for Education and Children as the disabilities and mental health administrator for Denver’s Great Kids Head Start. He is a board member of the Foundation for Knowledge in Development (KID Foundation), founded by Lucy Jane Miller, and was appointed by the governor of Colorado to the Colorado Interagency Coordinating Council, which oversees disability services to children birth to three throughout the state. He holds licensure as a director of special education and is the parent of three children, one of whom is diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and sensory processing disorder.

Books: Parenting a Child with Sensory Processing Disorder

Nancy B. Austin, Psy.D., a graduate of the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology School/Child Program at Yeshiva University, has been a child psychologist in New York since 1988. She is also a psychoanalyst, with training from the Westchester Center for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (WCSPP).  Austin is currently the associate director of the Lucio Bini Mood Disorders Center of New York, which specializes in research, consultation, diagnosis, and treatment of mood and anxiety disorders in children, adolescents, adults, and their families. 

Lynette Bassman, Ph.D., Lynette Bassman, Ph.D., is professor of psychology, specializing in health psychology, at the California School of Professional Psychology of Alliant International University. She is the editor of The Whole Mind: The Definitive Guide to Complementary Treatments for Mind, Mood and Emotions. Bassman is a survivor of chronic fatigue syndrome; she used alternative medicine approaches for her recovery.

Books: Feel-Good Guide to Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Kristin Beck is a freelance writer living in Seattle. The editor of Seal Press' The Moment of Truth: Women's Funniest Romantic Catastrophes, she has also contributed to many women's-issues anthologies and magazines, including, most recently, Mothering.

Books:Facing 30 and The Self-Nourishment Companion

John D. Becker, M.D., is a physician in private practice who specializes in the treatment of people with Alzheimer's disease.

Books: Everything You Need to Know about Alzheimer's

Michael T. Bell, Ed.S., LPC, NCC, is a licensed professional counselor in private practice specializing in the treatment of adults and children with ADD. Bell draws on both personal and professional experience to develop the most useful and practical interventions to help couples affected by ADD have fulfilling relationships. He and his wife of ten years live in Manassas, Virginia.

Books: You, Your Relationship, and Your ADD

M. Christina Benson, M.D., is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Los Angeles. She is affiliated with UCLA and has been involved in the supervision and education of medical students, psychiatric residents, and psychoanalytic trainees. Dr. Benson is a nationally known Tavistock trained consultant on group process and has contributed to a monthly column in the San Francisco Examiner.

Books: The Woman's Guide to Total Self-Esteem

Peter J. Bieling, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster University and Director of Mood and Anxiety Services of St. Joseph's Healthcare, Hamilton, Ontario. Dr. Bieling completed his Ph.D. in clinical psychology at the University of British Columbia and did his postdoctoral training at the Center for Cognitive Therapy, University of Pennsylvania and the Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy. He has authored many articles in the area of depression, particularly the psychological factors that are associated with depression and vulnerability to depression. Dr. Bieling is also a Founding Fellow in the Academy of Cognitive Therapy and has written extensively about therapy for depression. In addition to his research activities and academic work, he is an active therapist and teacher of cognitive behavioral therapy and a consultant in private practice.

Books: Ending the Depression Cycle; Are You Depressed or Is It Your Thyroid?

Susan L. Blumberg, Ph.D., is coauthor of six books, including Fighting for Your Marriage and Twelve Hours to a Great Marriage. She has more than twenty years’ experience as a family advocate for families with children with special needs, helping families navigate through the system to obtain services and supports. She has been a member of the board of directors for Denver Early Childhood Connections, the Part C agency for Denver, since 1997 and served as president or vice president for five years. Blumberg received her doctorate in child clinical psychology from the University of Denver in 1991 and is a licensed clinical psychologist. She is also the parent of two children, one of whom is diagnosed with nonverbal learning disability and sensory processing disorder.

Books: Parenting a Child with Sensory Processing Disorder

Barbara Bradley Bolen has a private clinical psychological practice in Farmingdale, New York. She is a member of the American Psychological Association, Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, the Nassau County Psychological Association, and the International Foundation for Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders.

Books: Breaking the Bonds of Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Foreword writer Oheneba Boachie-Adjei, MD, is a surgeon at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City.

Dale Bredesen, MD, is CEO of the Buck Institute for Age Research, the only institute in the U.S. to focus solely on aging and age-related diseases and conditions. The Institute was recently named one of the top five research facilities in the US by the National Institutes of Health. He also works with his coauthor on research in using bio-identical hormones to treat various conditions, including menopause and autoimmune conditions. Dr. Bredesen regularly gives talks and seminars on various topics related to aging and has published almost 150 articles in scientific journals about his work. He has appeared in major broadcast and print media, and has given hundreds of talks to his colleagues at scientific conferences, research facilities, and universities all over the world.

Books: The Perimenopuase and Menopause Workbook

Edmund J. Bourne received his Ph.D., in psychology from the University of Chicago and did post-doctoral research at Michael Reese Medical Center in Chicago. He has taught at several colleges and universities, authored numerous publications, and is the recipient of two national awards. Dr. Bourne specializes in the treatment of anxiety, phobias, and stress-related disorders. He was formerly director of the Anxiety Treatment Center in San Jose and in Santa Rosa, California. Currently, he resides and practices in Kona, Hawaii, and California

Books: The Anxiety & Phobia Workbook, Coping with Anxiety, Natural Relief for Anxiety, Beyond Anxiety & Phobia

Eden Unger Bowditch is a published author, a freelance writer, and the editor of The Urbanite Magazine, a Baltimore magazine that addresses urban issues. She lives in Baltimore with her husband and their two children.

Books: The Daughter-in-Law Survival Guide

Books: Calming Your Anxious Mind, Five Good Minutes, Five Good Minutes in the Evening, Five Good Minutes at Work

Stephanie A. Brill is a leading Bay Area midwife, the partnered lesbian mother of two-plus growing children, and cofounder of the Berkeley-based Maia Midwifery and Preconception Services. As a parenting educator, Brill has helped over 3,000 queer families.

Books: The Queer Parent’s Primer

Nina Brown, Ed.D., is professor and eminent scholar of counseling at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a Nationally Certified Counselor. An expert on narcissism's effects on relationships, she is the author of fifteen books. She lives in Arlington Beach, VA.

Books: Working with the Self-Absorbed, Loving the Self-Absorbed, Coping with Your Partner’s Jealousy, Children of the Self-Absorbed, Whose Life Is it Anyway?

Arlen Brownstein, MS, ND, is a naturopathic physician. She earned her ND from Bastyr University in Seattle, WA. After completing her undergraduate degree at the University of California, Berkeley, she earned a master's degree in nutrition from the University of Connecticut in Storrs, CT. She is the author of Rosacea: Your Self-Help Guide.

Books: Rosacea, Natural Relief For Anxiety

Jerome Bubrick,, Ph.D., is a behavior and cognitive psychologist specializing in the treatment of obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders and hoarding in children and adults at Bio-Behavioral Institute in Great Neck, NY. He has given presentations and workshops on these topics, both at professional conferences and within the community. He received his Ph.D. in clinical and school psychology from Hofstra University in Long Island, NY.

Books: Overcoming Compulsive Hoarding

Paula Carmona, RN, MSN, has been a student of Zen since the1970s. She has trained with Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of Full Catastrophe Living and Wherever You Go There You Are, and practiced with Charlotte Joko Beck, author of Everyday Zen and Nothing Special. She is a clinical nurse specialist at the Department of Veteran Affairs in San Diego and recently launched a private psychotherapy practice. Polly graduated from Yale University with a Masters of Science in Psychiatric Nursing in 1986. Most recently she adapted a dialectal behavior therapy program (of which mindfulness is a significant component), which is used to treat patients with borderline personality disorder so that it can be applied to those suffering from other diagnoses, including depression.

Books: Peaceful Mind

Wm. Lee Carter, Ed.D., is a psychologist in private practice and the Director of Psychology at Cedar Crest Hospital and Residential Treatment Center in Belton, Texas. The author of five books on teens and parenting, Dr. Carter lives in Waco, Texas.

Books: It Happened to Me

Joyce Catlett, M.A., is an author and lecturer who has collaborated with Dr. Robert Firestone in writing ten books, most recently coauthoring Fear of Intimacy. Since 1982, Ms.Catlett has been a lecturer and workshop facilitator and has coproduced thirty-serty-seven video productions for the Glendon Association in the areas of parent-child relations, suicide, couple relations, and voice therapy. Ms. Catlett developed and trained instructors in the Compassionate Child-Rearing Parent Education Program.

Books: Conquer Your Critical Inner Voice

Kathleen A. Cervenka, Ph.D., is a psychotherapist who holds a doctorate in human sexuality. She has been working for more than twenty years with couples on relationship issues and sexual dysfunctions. She provides sexual training seminars to professionals and makes frequent appearances on TV and radio. She lives in Belleair, Florida with her husband. Visit Kathleen at drcervenka.com.

Books: In the Mood, Again

Alice Chang, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in health-related illness. She maintains a private practice in Tucson, Arizona, and is an adjunct professor at Chapman University and research scientist in the Department of Psychology at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

Books: A Survivor’s Guide to Breast Cancer

Alexander L. Chapman, Ph.D., is assistant professor and a registered psychologist in the Department of Psychology at Simon Fraser University, in Burnaby, BC, Canada. He is the director of the Centre for Applied Research on Emotions (CARE), where he conducts research on borderline personality disorder, self-harm, suicidal behavior, impulsivity, and emotions. After graduating with his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Idaho State University and completing a clinical internship at Duke University Medical Center, Chapman completed a two-year post-doctoral fellowship with Marsha Linehan at the University of Washington. While working with Linehan, he received training and supervision in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) and in clinical research on borderline personality disorder. Chapman has published several journal articles and book chapters and has given numerous professional presentations on borderline personality disorder, suicidal and self-harm behavior, DBT, and impulsive behavior, among other topics. He is coauthor of a recently published book on behavior therapy, Understanding and Using Behavioral Interventions in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy. Chapman has had several years of experience and extensive training in the treatment of borderline personality disorder. As a DBT Trainer for Behavioral Tech, LLC, Chapman routinely gives workshops on DBT in both Canada and the United States. He teaches courses on DBT and supervises students in their treatment of clients with BPD. In addition, Chapman is cofounder of the Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Centre of Vancouver (DBTCV), a center for the treatment of persons who struggle with BPD.

Book: The Borderline Personality Disorder Survival Guide

Doc Childre is the founder and chairman of the scientific advisory board of the Institute of HeartMath, the chairman of HeartMath LLC, and the chairman and CEO of Quantum Intech. He is the author of seven books and a consultant to business leaders, scientists, educators, and the entertainment industry on Intui-Technology(r). His HeartMath System and proprietary heart rhythm technology for coherence building called Freeze-Framer(r), has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Harvard Business Review, New York Newsday, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, and on NBC's Today Show, ABC Good Morning America, ABC World News Tonight, CNN Headline News, CNN.com, as well as numerous other publications and television programs around the world. He and his coauthor, Deborah Rozman, Ph.D., wrote Overcoming Emotional Chaos. He also wrote The How-To-Book of Teen Self-Discovery and coauthored The HeartMath Solution and From Chaos to Coherence.

Books: Transforming Anger, Transforming Stress, Transforming Anxiety, Transforming Depression, Heartmath® Solution To Managing Hypertension

Robert C. Chope, Ph.D., is a professor of counseling at San Francisco State University and a psychologist in private practice who has been working with agoraphobics and their families for more than twenty years. He is author of Dancing Naked: Breaking Through the Emotional Limits that Keep You from the Job You Want.

Books: Dancing Naked; Shared Confinement

Debra Hapenny Ciavola, Ph.D., is a licensed marriage and family therapist who specializes in adolescent and adult therapy. She speaks regularly throughout the United States at seminars and workshops regarding parenting and the strengthening of families. She earned a clinical membership in the American Association of Marriage & Family Therapists, the Texas Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, and the National Association of Masters Psychologists. She is the author of a previous book, Sounds of Silence, and has successfully raised five teens of her own. She lives in Texas.

Books: 50 Great Tips, Tricks and Techniques to Connect with Your Teen

James Claiborn, Ph.D., ABPP, is a licensed psychologist in private practice in New Hampshire, where he specialized in cognitive behavioral therapy. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology in Counseling Psychology, a Fellow of the Academy of Counseling Psychology, a Founding Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy, and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Obsessive Compulsive Foundation. He is also a member of the American Psychological Association and the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy.

Books: The Habit Change Workbook, The BDD Workbook

Certified through the Power Pilates Method in New York City, Ruth Hiatt-Coblentz has earned advanced certification in Pilates mat, Reformer, Cadillac and Wunda Chair instruction. She has a degree in History and Near Eastern Studies from Clark University. In her private studio, Think Pilates in Worcester, MA, she finds particular satisfaction helping those with fragile spines, having had three spinal surgeries of her own.

Mary Ellen Copeland, M.S., M.A., is a distinguished teacher, writer, and lecturer from Brattleboro, Vermont. She is the author of The Depression Workbook, Living without Depression and Manic Depression, Fibromyalgia & Chronic Myofascial Pain Syndrome, Winning Against Relapse, and her videotape, Coping with Depression, are widely used by therapists and depression clinics.

Books: Fibromyalgia & Chronic Myofascial Pain, The Depression Workbook, Living with Depression & Manic Depression, Healing the Trauma of Abuse, The Loneliness Workbook

Brenda Coyle, Ph.D., is clinical director of the Yale Center for Eating and Weight Disorders. She received her Ph.D. from Boston College and completed postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard Medical School and Yale University. Her primary clinical interests involve the prevention and treatment of eating disorders and obesity. In addition to teaching graduate students and directing the clinical services at Yale, Coyle is also a licensed psychologist in private practice specializing in women's health

Books: Helping Your Child Overcome an Eating Disorder

Linda W. Craighead, Ph.D., is professor of psychology and director of the Clinical Psychology Training program at the University of Colorado in Boulder, CO. She is also clinical director at La Luna, an outpatient eating disorders treatment center, and clinical supervisor for eating disorder treatment at Psychological Health and Psychiatry in the CU student health center. Her research is done through the Eating and Weight Concerns Clinic at the University of Colorado’s Raimy Psychological Clinic. She consults at Duke Medical Center with weight management programs. She received her Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University in clinical psychology. She has written many articles and presented papers, and she has taught many professionals about appetite awareness training, the intervention she developed to address a broad range of concerns about eating and weight.

Books: Appetite Awareness

Michelle G. Craske, Ph.D., is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and director of the UCLA Anxiety Disorders Behavioral Research Program. She serves on the DSM-IV Anxiety Disorders Workgroup Subcommittee.

Books: Women Who Worry Too Much

Charles E. Cunningham, Ph.D., Ph.D is a staff psychologist at McMaster Children's Hospital and professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster University, both in Hamilton, ON.

Books: Helping Your Child with Selective Mutism

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