Nancy Fishman, PhD has a solo (no surprise) private psychotherapy practice in Birmingham, Michigan, and specializes in marriage and family counseling and collaborative divorce.
Jeffrey A. Kottler, PhD is Professor of the Department of Counseling at California State University, Fullerton. Dr. Kottler has been a Fulbright Scholar in Iceland and Peru, as well as having lectured extensively around the world. He is also President and Co-Founder of the Empower Nepali Girls Foundation which provides educational scholarships for lower caste girls in rural Nepal who would otherwise be unable to attend school. Dr. Kottler has authored 80 books in psychology, education, and counseling, including On Being a Therapist, The Imperfect Therapist: Learning From Failure in Therapeutic Practice, Compassionate Therapy: Working With Difficult Clients, and The Assassin and the Therapist: An exploration of Truth in Psychotherapy and in Life. He co-edited Duped: Lies and Deception in Psychotherapy, from which this story was excerpted.