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Peggy Ceballos, PhD, Certified CCPT-S, Certified CPRT-S, is an Associate Professor at the University of North Texas. She has clinical experience as a school counselor and as a community counselor working primarily with children and adolescents. Dr. Ceballos research agenda focuses on culturally responsive play therapy, culturally informed parent and teacher training interventions and other issues relevant to multiculturalism and social justice. She is past president of the International Counseling Honor Society, Chi Sigma Iota, has conducted numerous professional presentations, and has been the recipient of 11 professional awards.

Peggy Papp is a senior faculty member at the Ackerman Institute for the Family, and founder and Director of Ackerman's Depression and Gender Project. An internationally renowned therapist and presenter for her innovative contributions to family therapy, she is the author of the book The Process of Change, co-author of the book, The Invisible Web: Gender Patterns in Family Relationships, and editor of Couples on the Faultline: New Directions for Therapists.

Pete Walker is director of the Lafayette Counseling Center. He has been working as a teacher and mental health professional for thirty years, and is the author of The Tao of Fully Feeling: Harvesting Forgiveness Out of Blame. He presents on this topic annually at JFK University and has also presented the topic at the 40st Annual CAMFT Conference and several EBCAMFT chapter meetings.

Elaborations of the principles in this article—the importance of shrinking the inner critic, the role of grieving in trauma recovery, and the need to be able to stay self-compassionately present to dysphoric affect—as well on his writings on trauma typology and the role of trauma in codependence, can be downloaded for free from his website: www.pete-walker.com. He can also be reached at 925-283-4575.

Pete Walker is director of the Lafayette Counseling Center. He has been working as a teacher and mental health professional for thirty years, and is the author of The Tao of Fully Feeling: Harvesting Forgiveness Out of Blame. He presents on this topic annually at JFK University and has also presented the topic at the 40st Annual CAMFT Conference and several EBCAMFT chapter meetings.

Elaborations of the principles in this article—the importance of shrinking the inner critic, the role of grieving in trauma recovery, and the need to be able to stay self-compassionately present to dysphoric affect—as well on his writings on trauma typology and the role of trauma in codependence, can be downloaded for free from his website: www.pete-walker.com. He can also be reached at 925-283-4575.

Peter Allen, LPC, is a licensed professional counselor and supervisor practicing in Madras, Oregon. He specializes in working with teens and young adults. In addition to writing for Psychotherapy.net, he has written articles for Counseling Today, the online publication of the American Counseling Association. Peter also co-founded and leads a consultation group that is focused on addressing countertransference in clinicians.

Peter Fonagy, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, as well as the Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis and Head of the Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology at University College London. Dr. Fonagy's clinical expertise centers around issues of borderline psychopathology, violence and early attachment relationships. He is also Chief Executive of the Anna Freud Centre and a training and supervising analyst in the British Psycho-Analytical Society in child and adult analysis.