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Maggie M. Jackson is an award-winning science writer with a focus on psychology and the author most recently of Uncertain: The Wisdom and Wonder of Being Unsure (2023), nominated for a National Book Award. She is the first non-psychologist invited to write for Psychotherapy.net. 

Maggie Mulqueen, PhD, is a psychologist in Brookline, MA, where she has maintained a private practice for over thirty years. In her clinical work she sees individuals and couples with a focus on deepening self-awareness and building relationships. She is the author of On Our Own Terms: Redefining Competence and Femininity (SUNY Press, 1992). Dr. Mulqueen has published essays in The Boston Globe, AARP Magazine, Psychotherapy Networker, Boston Parents Paper, Brain, Child Magazine and Wellesley/Weston Magazine. She was formerly on the faculty of Lesley University in the Counseling and Psychology Division. Dr. Mulqueen graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1984 where she received the Phi Delta Kappa award for Dissertation of the Year.

Maggie Mulqueen, PhD, is a psychologist in Brookline, MA, where she has maintained a private practice for over thirty years. In her clinical work she sees individuals and couples with a focus on deepening self-awareness and building relationships. She is the author of On Our Own Terms: Redefining Competence and Femininity (SUNY Press, 1992). Dr. Mulqueen has published essays in The Boston Globe, AARP Magazine, Psychotherapy Networker, Boston Parents Paper, Brain, Child Magazine and Wellesley/Weston Magazine. She was formerly on the faculty of Lesley University in the Counseling and Psychology Division. Dr. Mulqueen graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1984 where she received the Phi Delta Kappa award for Dissertation of the Year. To learn more, please visit her website.

Makungu M. Akinyela, PhD, LMFT, is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) in practice in Atlanta, Georgia and an Associate Professor in the Africana Studies Department at Georgia State University in Atlanta. He is a Clinical Fellow and an Approved Supervisor of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT). In his practice he served as the clinical director for an Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) program to provide wrap around mental health support and care for poor, working class and homeless mental health patients in the metro-Atlanta community.

As a scholar and a therapist MA has been a committed Social Justice organizer for over forty-years focused on struggles for human rights and justice for Black people in the United States and the African diaspora. His research and writing includes such subjects as cultural democracy and mental health care; cultural domination and therapeutic resistance; reparations and the role of mental health workers in repairing oppressions wounds and African centered family therapy. He is the developer of a culturally specific approach to narrative called Testimony therapy which he has written about extensively.   

Mallory Behar, Psy.D., is currently a Staff Psychologist at Metropolitan State Hospital, specializing in the treatment and assessment of individuals with suicidal ideation, homicidal ideation, substance use concerns, and trauma. She also completed her training at the California Institute for Women prison (CIW) working with patients diagnosed with severe mental illness. She is eager to speak about crisis skills as they apply to everyday life.

Lenore Walker, EdD is an internationally renowned expert in domestic violence. Author of 12 books (including the now classic The Battered Woman) and scores of articles, she is currently professor of Clinical and Forensic Psychology at Nova Southeastern University. She is the recipient of numerous awards, and served as an expert witness in the O.J. Simpson trial.

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Leon Rosenberg is a clinical psychologist, and a Professor Emeritus on the faculty of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. For 38 years he was full-time member of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and provided individual and family therapy involving children from early childhood through adolescence. He supervised the child psychiatry residents, psychologists, social workers, and counselors in the Division's community programs. Until he retired in 2000 he was also the Director of their Community Mental Health Program. Since retiring from his full-time position, he has served as a consultant to the Division of Child Psychiatry's School-Based program where Hopkins counselors are assigned to Baltimore public schools. In that role he continues to supervise therapists in their work with children and their families.