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Lisa Mitchell, MFT, ATR, is the owner and director of The Art Therapy Studio in Fair Oaks, California. For the last 20 years, with the use of art, she has helped adolescent and adult clients discover their own expressive voices and recover from depression, anxiety and trauma. She’s taught over a thousand therapists to use art to reconnect with passion for their lives and work, find alternate ways to communicate with self and clients, and to explore the ways in which their profession affects their lives. Her forthcoming book, Inner Canvas: Artful Self-Reflection for Therapists and Coaches, will highlight the therapeutic process as a creative process and offer a multitude of art invitations designed to inspire and sustain the beautiful work that therapists and coaches do. Lisa lives in Carmichael, CA with husband and kids and various artistic pets, some of which include cackling roosters. She can be contacted at (916) 276-0455 or www.InnerCanvas.com. 

Lisa Palmer-Olsen, PsyD is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in San Diego California. She is a Certified EFT Therapist, Trainer, and Supervisor, and is a Founder and one of the Directors of the Emotionally Focused Couples Training and Research Institute at Alliant International University. Dr. Palmer-Olsen’s primary clinical and research interests are in the areas of couple and family therapy; specifically with those couples and families dealing with trauma and attachment related struggles. She is an AAMFT clinical member and approved AAMFT supervisor. Dr. Palmer-Olsen is also co-founder and clinic director for the Alliant Couple and Family Clinic (ACFC), a San Diego-based nonprofit therapy clinic. The ACFC specializes in family and couple therapy offering individual and group counseling sessions for military and all clients in distressed relationships. As the clinical director, Dr. Palmer-Olsen supervises and teaches the EFT model, as well as works families herself.

Liz Tingley, PhD, grew up in a small midwestern town, and has a B.A. in English from Oberlin College. She migrated East after college and lived there with a couple of minor detours, for forty years. She has an MS in Infant and Parent Development from Bank Street College of Education. She worked as a teacher and director of the Harvard Law School Child Care Center early in her career. She then obtained a Ph.D. in developmental psychology from Boston University and held faculty positions at the University of Texas at Dallas, Bennington College and Bank Street College of Education. She received her second doctoral degree in clinical psychology from the City University of New York CUNY). She did her postdoctoral training at the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Program of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR). She was in private practice as a psychologist in New York City for many years and taught and supervised psychologists at IPTAR, CUNY/CCNY and Pace University. She relocated to Illinois in 2017, where she practices as a clinical psychologist, directs the Child Diagnostic Clinic, acts as the chief psychologist, and supervises and teaches in the psychiatry residency program at Carle Health in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. She returned so her dog Charley could have a big yard, and to fight Trump on the ground. 

Lois Nightingale, PhD, is a licensed Psychologist and licensed Marriage Family Therapist. She is the director of the Nightingale Center in Yorba Linda, California. She is a Topic Expert for GoodTherapy.com and her author page can be viewed at www.amazon.com/author/loisnightingale.

For the past 35 years, Lonnie Barbach, PhD, has been one of the most prolific and influential contributors to our understanding of how to help women and men enjoy the discovery of their sexuality and intimacy. Her dozen books, translated into an equal number of languages, have sold over 4 million copies in the U.S. alone. She has appeared on hundreds of local radio and television programs as well as most nationally televised talk shows, including Oprah, Good Morning America, The Today Show, CBS Morning News, Phil Donohue and Charlie Rose. She has a private practice of individual psychotherapy and couples therapy in San Francisco and Mill Valley, CA. Her website is lonniebarbach.com.

Krista Tippett is a Peabody-award winning broadcaster, National Humanities Medalist, and New York Times bestselling author. She hosts the On Being podcast and leads The On Being Project, a non-profit media and public life initiative that pursues deep thinking and moral imagination, social courage and joy, towards the renewal of inner life, outer life, and life together. Krista grew up in a small town in Oklahoma, attended Brown University, worked as a journalist and diplomat in Cold War Berlin, and later received a Master of Divinity from Yale University. She was awarded a National Humanities Medal from President Obama. Her most recent book is Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living.  

Lama Khouri, DPsa, is a New York-based psychoanalyst. She is a Psychoanalytic Supervisor and the Director of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging at the Institute for Expressive Analysis. Dr. Khouri co-founded the Palestine-Global Mental Health Network and sits on the Gaza Mental Health Foundation and the USA-Palestine Mental Health Network boards. She is also an active member of the Jewish Voice for Peace New York chapter, and Doctors Against Genocide. Her previous experience includes a 14-year career at the United Nations Department of Peace Operations. http://www.lamakhouri.com