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Robert-Jay Green is Professor and Associate Director of the Clinical Psychology Ph.D. Program, California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University, San Francisco campus. He has a private practice in San Francisco specializing in couples therapy, and is currently President of the Association of Family Therapists of Northern California (AFTNC). He is author of more than sixty publications about couples/family interaction and therapy. You may contact him at 415-749-0100 or by email: rjgreen415@cs.com. His personal website is at: www.robertjaygreen.com.

Roberta Satow, PhD is a New York based psychoanalyst, speaker and author of Doing the Right Thing: Taking Care of Your Elderly Parents Even if They Didn’t Take Care of You, Gender and Social Life and the novel: Two Sisters of Coyoacán. Professor emerita of the department of sociology at Brooklyn College and the City University of New York, Dr. Satow speaks and writes about issues of aging, gender, and mental health. She has discussed her work and writing on the podcast, IPA/Off the Couch with Harvey Schwartz. 

Roberta Satow, PhD is a New York based psychoanalyst, speaker and author of Doing the Right Thing: Taking Care of Your Elderly Parents Even if They Didn’t Take Care of You, Gender and Social Life and the novel Two Sisters of Coyoacán. Professor emerita of the department of sociology at Brooklyn College and the City University of New York, Dr. Satow speaks and writes about issues of aging, gender, and mental health.She also blogs on Life After 50 for Psychology Today.

Robin S. Rosenberg, PhD, is a member of the Academy for Eating Disorders and a Fellow of the American Academy of Clinical Psychology. She is board certified in clinical psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology, and has a clinical practice in Stanford, CA. Dr. Rosenberg has taught psychology courses to college students, including a course on eating disorders, and is co-author of Introductory Psychology and Abnormal Psychology textbooks for undergraduates. She is a blogger for the Huffington Post and Psychology Today.

Robin S. Rosenberg, Ph.D., ABPP, is a board-certified clinical psychologist licensed in CA, CT, MA, NY, and UT, and is an Adjunct Clinical Professor at University of California San Francisco. In addition to her work as a psychotherapist and executive coach, she writes for a general audience as well as college-level psychology textbooks and does research. 

Robin Walker, MFT, has specialized in helping children and teens in his private practice since 1987. He is co-founder of the Alliance for Creative Psychotherapy. 

Rollo May (1909-1994) is the father of Existential Psychotherapy in the United States and indeed has inspired Yalom, Bugental and countless others through his teachings and books. He edited the first book in the field in 1958, Existence, and authored the seminal books Love and Will and The Meaning of Anxiety. He is a legendary teacher, scholar and psychotherapist.

Rollo May was born April 21, 1909, in Ada, Ohio. His childhood was a difficult one: His parents didn't get along and eventually divorced, and his sister had a psychotic breakdown. After a brief stint at Michigan State (he was asked to leave because of his involvement with a radical student magazine), he attended Oberlin College in Ohio, where he received his bachelors degree.

After graduation, he went to Greece, where he taught English at Anatolia College for three years. During this period, he also spent time as an itinerant artist and even studied briefly with Alfred Adler. When he returned to the US, he entered Union Theological Seminary and became friends with one of his teachers, Paul Tillich, the existentialist theologian, who would have a profound effect on his thinking. May received his BD in 1938.

May suffered from tuberculosis, and had to spend three years in a sanatorium. This was probably the turning point of his life. While he faced the possibility of death, he also filled his empty hours with reading. Among the literature he read were the writings of Søren Kierkegaard, the Danish religious writer who inspired much of the existential movement, and provided the inspiration for May's theory.

He went on to study psychoanalysis at White Institute, where he met people such as Harry Stack Sullivan and Erich Fromm. And finally, he went to Columbia University in New York, where in 1949 he received the first PhD in clinical psychology that institution ever awarded. May's dissertation was published as The Meaning of Anxiety. After receiving his PhD, he went on to teach at a variety of top schools. In 1958, he edited, with Ernest Angel and Henri Ellenberger, Existence, which introduced existential psychology to the US.

In 1983 May published a work that attempted to explain how "classic" existential thought related to psychoanalysis. The Discovery of Being: Writings in Existential Psychology was a collection of essays exploring the views of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Freud, among others. May was determined to illustrate that psychology and existentialism were concerned with the same issues and could cooperate towards a better understanding of the human condition.

May was a founder and faculty member of Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center in San Francisco. He spent the last years of his life in Tiburon, California, until he died in October of 1994.

Regina Huelsenbeck is Co-Chair of the mindfulness task force group in the San Diego Psychological Association and currently works at the UCSD Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic. She completed her doctoral research on the experience of living with cancer and additionally authored a chapter on this topic for the book Hope Begins in the Dark, created by award-winning NEWSWEEK journalist, Jamie Reno. She maintains a private practice supervised by Carrie Jaffe, PhD focused on mindfulness practices, cancer survivorship issues, coping with terminal and chronic illness, overcoming trauma, loss, depression, and creating life meaning., Dr. Huelsenbeck is also a cancer survivor herself, an avid blogger—www.RitualsofHealing.com/blog, and professional speaker. For more information please visit Dr. Huelsenbeck's website at www.RitualsofHealing.com.