Archives: Authors

Lorraine Collins, PhD, is the Associate Dean for Research at SUNY-Buffalo’s School of Public Health and Health Professions, and Professor in the Department of Community Health and Health Behavior. A former research scientist with the Research Institute on Addictions, Collins has published widely in scholarly journals. Her research focuses on nicotine, marijuana, and alcohol addictions.

Louis A. Perrott, PhD is a past president of the Virginia Psychological Association and a co-founder of Peak Performance Consultation in Roanoke, Virginia. He gives training workshops on business psychology and coaches therapists who are transitioning into doing corporate consultations. His book, Reinventing Your Practice as a Business Psychologist, is available through Jossey-Bass Publishers, Inc. or may be purchased at a discount directly through him. Dr. Perrott may be reached by telephone at 540-989-8896 or by e-mail at loupero@roanoke.infi.net

Louis Cozolino, Ph.D., practices psychotherapy and consulting psychology in Beverly Hills, California. He received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from UCLA and an M.T.S. from Harvard University. He has been a professor at Pepperdine since 1986 and lectures around the world on psychotherapy, neuroscience, trauma, and attachment. With more than 30 years of experience as a psychotherapist and coach, Dr. Cozolino works with adults, adolescents and families as they face a wide variety of life’s challenges. His primary method as a therapist is one of connection, attunement, and interaction. Working primarily from a psychodynamic model of treatment, he also employs strategies and techniques from the other forms of therapy he has studied including CBT, family systems, and humanistic/existential.

Louis Roussel, PhD is a psychoanalyst working with adults and children at the Masonic Center for Youth and Families in San Francisco and in private practice in Berkeley. He is a faculty member and chair of the Extension Division at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis.

Lucy Winer has been directing and producing award-winning documentaries for over 30 years. Committed throughout her career to issues of social concern. Winer’s work has been distributed theatrically in this country and overseas, and broadcast nationally on PBS, POV and cable. Her films have been featured at numerous festivals including Sundance, Berlin, Edinburgh, and Turin, and screened at the American Film Institute Theaters in L.A. and D.C., the Walker Art Institute, the Museum of Modern Art and the New Museum. Her awards include “Outstanding Film of the Year” from the London Film Festival, a Golden Plaque from the Chicago International Film Festival, a CINE Golden Eagle and an Emmy nomination for “Outstanding Picture.”

Lynn Grodzki, LCSW, MCC is one of the leading business coaches in the US for small business owners. She specializes in working with change-agents: therapists, coaches, healers, and other helping professionals.

After receiving an undergraduate degree in Design, Lynn worked as an executive in the family business. She left to get a Masters in Social Work in 1988 from the University of Maryland and became a psychotherapist in private practice.

She is the author of five books about practice-building for therapists, coaches, and consultants, including, Building Your Ideal Private Practice: A Guide for Therapists and Other Healing Professionals (2015) Crisis-Proof Your Practice: How to Survive and Thrive in an Uncertain Economy (2009), and The New Private Practice: Therapist-Coaches Share Stories, Strategies and Advice (2002).

Lynn still maintains a psychotherapy private practice, specializing in working with the “worried well”— adults who are successful in some areas of life and need help in others. She combines psychotherapy with a coaching approach, to offer an honest, direct method of therapy. See her counseling services at www.counselingsilverspring.com.

Lynn Ponton, MD, is a professor of psychiatry at UCSF, a practicing psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, and the author of The Romance of Risk: Why Teenagers Do the Things They Do and The Sex Lives of Teenagers: Revealing the Secret World of Adolescent Boys and Girls. She works primarily with adolescents, focusing on risk behaviors such as sexual experimentation and eating disorders. She enjoys writing and has been published widely in scholarly journals, textbooks, newspapers, magazines, editorials, online and has been interviewed by numerous television and radio shows, magazines, and newspapers.

Ponton is the mother of two young adult daughters and lives in San Francisco. She is very interested in the future of young people throughout the world and believes that parenting children, adolescents, and young adults is the world’s greatest challenge. Through her work and writing, she hopes to contribute knowledge and practical information to this vital area.

Lyrica Fils-Aimé, LCSW-R, RPT-S, (she/her) works as an Anti-Racist consultant, workshop facilitator, and private practice founder in Harlem. Lyrica specializes in ancestral trauma and resilience, and guides clients to rematriation through ancestral lands, plants, spirituality and language.

Madeline Levine, PhD has been a practicing clinical psychologist in Marin County for the past 25 years. She is the author of several books including The Price of Privilege, Viewing Violence, and See No Evil. A frequent lecturer on child and adolescent issues, she lives in California with her husband and three sons.