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Liliana Baylon, LMFT-S, RPT-S, EMDRIA Approved Consultant, MBA, is a bilingual (English/Spanish), biliterate, and bicultural therapist holding a Master’s Degree in Counseling & Marriage, Family, & Child Therapy from the University of Phoenix. With extensive speaking, training, and consulting experience spanning a range of organizations and topics, Liliana is particularly sought-after for her specialist expertise in mental health and its links to cultural diversity and social justice in a global context.

Liliana brings a unique cultural lens to her therapy, supervision, workshops, and presentations drawing on over a decade of in-depth clinical experience primarily treating LatinX community members, and providing bilingual therapy and supervision in English and Spanish. Liliana has become a well-respected expert and thought leader in the specialist fields of treating families, couples, and children with experiences of global migration along with trauma, abuse, and multicultural issues.

To best meet the diverse needs of these populations, Liliana has trained to a high level of expertise in a range of modalities: play therapy, EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing Therapy), EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy), EFFT (Emotionally Focused Family Therapy), and Synergetic Play Therapy. Learn more on her website: https://www.lilianabaylon.com/.

Lillian B. Rubin is an internationally recognized author, lecturer, and social scientist who was born in Philadelphia, grew up in New York City, and moved to California as a young adult. She lives in San Francisco, where she was, until recently, a practicing psychotherapist and a member of the faculty at the Institute for the Study of Social Change at the University of California, Berkeley.

She has published many articles and twelve books, including The Man with the Beautiful Voice, a book of personal essays on being a psychotherapist, from which this story was republished. Her most recent work, 60 ON UP: The Truth About Aging in America, is an unflinching look at the complex sociological, cultural, and psychological issues of aging in our time. Although she has retired from her psychotherapy practice, she continues her writing and has also taken up painting; her artwork and list of recent publications can be viewed at lillianrubin.com.

Linda Gask is Professor of Primary Care Psychiatry at the University of Manchester, and was the founder of the STORM training initiative for suicide prevention. She is the Western European Zonal Representative for the World Psychiatric Association and has worked as a consultant for the World Health Organization. She has done extensive research on improving the quality of care for people with depression and medically unexplained symptoms, and the management of people at risk of self-harm.

Linda, a clinical psychologist was introduced to the narrative practice ideas used in this paper in 1991 while living and working in Newfoundland, Canada. She has spent much of her career working as a clinical psychologist and narrative practitioner with children and their families in hospital settings and with palliative care in those environments. She is now working at the Shriners Hospitals for Children, Canada and with the Indigenous Kanien'kehá:ka (Mohawk) people in Kahnawake, Quebec, Canada. She is committed to honouring the people who consult her. She can be reached at lmoxleyh@shrinenet.org or lmhaegert@gmail.com

Lisa Ferentz, LCSW-C, DAPA, is a nationally recognized expert in the field of trauma treatment and has been in private practice for over 34 years. She is a consultant to practitioners and mental health agencies, and an international trainer and keynote speaker. She is the founder of The Ferentz Institute, providing CEU’s to mental health providers, the recipient of Maryland’s 2009 “Social Worker of the Year” Award, and the author of Treating Self-Destructive Behaviors in Trauma Survivors: A Clinician’s Guide, Letting Go of Self-Destructive Behaviors: A Workbook of Hope and Healing and Finding Your Ruby Slippers: Transformative Life Lessons from the Therapist’s Couch.

Lisa Firestone is the Director of Research and Education at the Glendon Association. Since 1987, she has been involved in clinical training and applied research in the areas of suicide and violence. These studies resulted in the development of the Firestone Assessment of Self-Destructive Thoughts (FAST), the Firestone Assessment of Violent Thoughts (FAVT), and the Firestone Assessment of Suicide Intent (FASI), all published by PAR. She is a presenter at national and international conferences on the topics of assessment of self-destructive and violent behavior, couple relations, and Voice Therapy.

Dr. Firestone's most recent publications include: Voice Therapy: A Treatment for Depression and Suicide (in R. Yufit and D. Lester, Eds., Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention of Suicidal Behavior); Suicide and the Inner Voice (in T. Ellis, Ed., Cognition and Suicide: Theory, Research and Practice); and Separation Theory and Voice Therapy Methodology Applied to the Treatment of Katie: A Diary-based, Retrospective Case Conceptualization and Treatment Approach (in D. Lester, Ed., The Secret Diary of Katie: Unlocking the Mystery of a Suicide). She is also co-author of Conquer Your Critical Inner Voice, Creating a Life of Meaning and Compassion: the Wisdom of Psychotherapy, and Sex and Love in Intimate Relationships. Dr. Firestone is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Santa Barbara, CA.