Myrtle Heery

Myrtle Heery, PhD, M.F.T. has a private psychotherapy practice in Petaluma, California, and is the director of the International Institute for Humanistic Studies (www.human-studies.com). She conducts training for psychotherapists in the United States and internationally, and publishes in existential-humanistic and transpersonal psychology. In addition, she and her husband are learning more about life from their teenage son.

Nancy A. Haug

Nancy A. Haug, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Psychology at Palo Alto University. She is core faculty in the PAU-Stanford Psy.D. Consortium, and Adjunct Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Haug leads the Harm Reduction and Addiction Treatment Laboratory at Palo Alto University and is the faculty advisor for the Graduate Student Association for Psychedelic Studies. She has ongoing collaborations and a teaching role in the Stanford Psychiatry Addiction Medicine Program. Her current research interests include implementation of evidence-based practices in addiction treatment, harm reduction for substance use, provider stigma, and psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy. 

Nancy Fishman, PhD and Jeffrey Kottler, PhD

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.

Nancy Gunzberg

Nancy Gunzberg, LCSW is a private practice psychotherapist in Santa Barbara, California. Previously she has worked as a psychotherapist in medical settings at Cottage Hospital, The Cancer Center of Santa Barbara, Sansum Psychiatric Department, and Hospice of Santa Barbara. Her areas of specialty include depression and anxiety, grief and loss, eating disorders, addictions, identity, trauma, attachments, aging, illness, and end of life issues. She can be reached at 
ngwile@verizon.net. Her website is www.nancygunzberg.com

Nancy McWilliams

Nancy McWilliams, PhD teaches at the Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology at Rutgers, and is the author of Psychoanalytic Diagnosis: Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Process, Psychoanalytic Case Formulation, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: A Practitioner's Guide, and is Associate Editor of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM). She is Past President of the Division of Psychoanalysis (39) of the American Psychological Association, Consulting Editor of the Psychoanalytic Review, and on the editorial board of Psychoanalytic Psychology.

Dr. McWilliams has written widely on personality structure and personality disorders, psychodiagnosis, sex and gender, trauma, intensive psychotherapy, and contemporary challenges to the humanistic tradition in psychotherapy. Her books have been translated into twelve languages, and she has lectured widely both nationally and internationally.

Her book on case formulation received the Gradiva Award for best psychoanalytic clinical book of 1999; in 2004 she was given the Rosalee Weiss Award for contributions to practice by the Division of Independent Practitioners of the American Psychological Association; and in 2006 she was made an Honorary Member of the American Psychoanalytic Association.

She has a private practice in Flemington, New Jersey.

Natalie Rogers

Natalie Rogers, PhD, REAT, is Distinguished Consulting Faculty at Saybrook Graduate School and has previously been on the faculties of the California Institute of Integral Studies and the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. In 1984 she founded the Person-Centered Expressive Arts Therapy Institute and its parent organization, Resources for Creativity and Consciousness, where she participated as teacher, trainer, workshop facilitator, consultant, and board member until its closing in 2005.

Dr. Rogers is a psychotherapist whose practices in California, Hawaii and Massachusetts have combined expressive arts with person-centered therapy with children, adults, families and groups. She is the daughter of Dr. Carl Rogers and has written two books: The Creative Connection: Expressive Arts As Healing and Emerging Woman: A Decade of Midlife Transitions. She has trained professional in expressive arts therapy around the world.

View Natalie’s website at www.nrogers.com or contact her by email: nrogers@sonic.net