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Melissa Groman is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in private practice in New Jersey. She specializes in treating eating and cutting disorders and mending marriages. Melissa founded the Good Practice Institute in 2007, and provides clinical supervision, consultation and practice building coaching to therapists from across the country via telephone. Melissa writes creatively late at night when her husband and five children are finally and blessedly asleep. She can be reached by phone at 973-667-8777 or through her website www.goodpracticeinstitute.com or email: Melissgro@aol.com.

Melissa Abraham, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital and in private practice in Boston. She is Associate Faculty at the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School and a Faculty Associate at Ariadne Labs. 

Melissa Abraham, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital and in private practice in Boston. She is Associate Faculty at the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School and a Faculty Associate at Ariadne Labs.  

Rachel E. Smith, MS, PA-C is a physician assistant and clinical implementation specialist at Ariadne Labs, a joint health innovation center at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is a Doctor of Public Health candidate at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Melissa Groman is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in private practice in New Jersey. She specializes in treating eating and cutting disorders and mending marriages. Melissa founded the Good Practice Institute in 2007, and provides clinical supervision, consultation and practice building coaching to therapists from across the country via telephone. Melissa writes creatively late at night when her husband and five children are finally and blessedly asleep. She can be reached by phone at 973-667-8777 or through her website www.goodpracticeinstitute.com or email: Melissgro@aol.com.

Melissa Weinberg, LCPC, is a psychotherapist in private practice in Baltimore, MD. She specializes in the treatment of anxiety and OCD, perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, and individuals practicing consensual non-monogamy. She writes about these and other topics related to mental health. She honed her skills in treating anxiety and OCD through her work at The Anxiety and Stress Disorders Institute and completed training through Postpartum Support International on perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. She has taught social psychology and counseling skills at the graduate and undergraduate levels. More information can be found at www.openlinescounseling.com.

Michael Sussman, Psy.D., is the author of A Curious Calling: Unconscious Motivations for Practicing Psychotherapy and the fantasy novel, Crashing Eden. He also edited the collection of essays A Perilous Calling: The Hazards of Psychotherapy Practice.

I am descendent of the Muisca people; racialized in the U.S. without my consent as a heterosexual, brown, cisgender woman, and middle-class immigrant. Domesticated in Westernized educational institutions in both English (US) and Spanish (Colombia), I am therefore an unintentional and intentional active participant in the sustainability of Eurocentric, capitalist, racist, and sexist systems of oppression, currently serving as an academic at San Diego State University and a licensed family therapist in California. 

Mardi Horowitz is Professor of Psychiatry at UCSF and President of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. He has advanced integrative psychotherapy theory in his book Cognitive Psychodynamics and is author of the defining book on PTSD, Stress Response Syndromes, now in its fourth edition.

He has written 17 professional books and over 280 scientific articles in the fields of psychology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis. His recent books include Treatment of Stress Response Syndromes, Understanding Psychotherapy Change, and for a popular audience, A Course in Happiness. Psychotherapists may be especially interested in Personality Styles and Brief Psychotherapy, Nuances of Technique in Dynamic Psychotherapy, Formulation as a Basis of Planning Psychotherapy Treatment, and Person Schemas and Maladaptive Interpersonal Patterns.

In addition, he has provided forensic, media and governmental consultations in the fields of PTSD, stress, personality, and psychotherapy.

To contact Mardi, order his books, or to see more of his artwork and his complete list of publications, please visit mardihorowitz.com.