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Marit Appeldoorn, MSW, LICSW, RPT-S, is a psychotherapist, supervisor, and consultant in private practice in Minneapolis. She is a past president of the Minnesota Association for Play Therapy (MNAPT), and is a co-founder of Safe Haven, an organization providing comprehensive professional support to therapists including supervision, coaching, consultation, and training. 

Mark A. Hubble, PhD, and Barry L. Duncan, PsyD are cofounders of the Institute for the Study of Therapeutic Change. Together with Scott Miller, they have authored and edited numerous professional articles and books, including The Heart and Soul of Change: What Works in Therapy, Escape from Babel, Psychotherapy with Impossible Cases, and The Heroic Client. Recently, Miller and Hubble released a self-help book titled Staying on Top and Keeping the Sand Out of Your Pants: A Surfer's Guide to the Good Life. Duncan published, What's Right with You: Debunking Dysfunction and Changing Your Life. Send comments to: trainers@talkingcure.com

Mark Epstein, MD, is a psychiatrist in private practice in New York City and author of five books and many articles on Buddhism and Psychotherapy. His first book, Thoughts without a thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist perspective has a welcoming forward by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and has been described as a landmark in the fields of Buddhism and psychotherapy. Next was Going to pieces without falling apart: A Buddhist perspective on wholeness; followed by Going on being: Life at the crossroads of Buddhism and psychotherapy; and Open to Desire: The truth about what the Buddha taught (2005, New York: Gotham). His most recent contribution is Psychotherapy without the self, a compilation of more academic essays from the past 25 years. He received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Harvard University and is currently Clinical Assistant Professor in the Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis at New York University.

Mark L. Ruffalo, MSW, DPsa, is a psychotherapist in private practice in Tampa, Florida, and serves as Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine.

Marlene Maheu, PhD, brought telehealth to the behavioral community. Pioneering for three decades, she has published five telehealth textbooks, dozens of book chapters, and journal articles and directly trained more than 70,000 clinicians in telehealth. She has assisted in writing standards and guidelines for multiple national associations and was the Chair of the CTiBS Competency Committee that published the first telebehavioral health competency framework. She has been interviewed by dozens of leading newspapers and magazines, keynoted, and taught telehealth-related workshops internationally. Dr. Maheu is a master at offering practical suggestions, so bring your notepad. You’ll leave with pages of actionable to-do's! 

Marsha Linehan, PhD, is a Professor of Psychology and adjunct Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington and is Director of the Behavioral Research and Therapy Clinics, a consortium of research projects developing new treatments and evaluating their efficacy for severely disordered and multi-diagnostic and suicidal populations. Her primary research is in the application of behavioral models to suicidal behaviors, drug abuse, and borderline personality disorder. She is also working to develop effective models for transferring science-based treatments to the clinical community.  

She is the developer of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), a treatment originally developed for the treatment of suicidal behaviors and since expanded to treatment of borderline personality disorder and other severe and complex mental disorders, particularly those that involve serious emotion dysregulation. 

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Martin E.P. Seligman, PhD, is the founder of Positive Psychology, former President of the American Psychological Association, and one of the most important figures in the field of applied psychology. He is currently Fox Leadership Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. He has written several books and over 200 articles on motivation and personality, including the best-selling Learned Optimism, What You Can Change and What You Can't, and his most recent Authentic Happiness.

Lori Gottlieb is a psychotherapist and New York Times bestselling author who writes the weekly "Dear Therapist" advice column for the Atlantic. A contributing editor for the Atlantic, she also writes for the New York Times Magazine, and is a sought-after expert on relationships, parenting, and hot-button mental health topics in media such as The Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, Dr. Phil, CNN, and NPR. She lives in Los Angeles. Learn more at LoriGottlieb.com or by following her @LoriGottlieb1 on Twitter.

Lori Schwanbeck, MFT, is a mindfulness-based psychotherapist practicing in San Francisco and Marin. She has completed intensive training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and is certified in Hakomi Body-Oriented Psychotherapy. In addition to her clinical work, Lori has been an adjunct professor at JFK University and is a sought-after speaker and trainer of mindfulness and experiential methods of teaching DBT skills. Lori is co-founder of Mindfulness Therapy Associates.