Archives: Authors

Tom Medlar, LMHC, LMFT, is married to Joan, and is the stepfather of Amy and Joe, and grandfather of Ella and Kieran. He is a parishioner at Sacred Heart Church, and a member of the Catholic Writer’s Guild and Catholic Literary Arts. Tom works for Health Drive in Framingham, Massachusetts providing psychotherapy to persons residing in nursing facilities.

Tom Medlar, LMHC, works in the Behavioral Health division of the Health Drive Corporation, which provides six areas of services to persons residing in nursing facilities: Optometry, Audiology, Primary Care, Podiatry, Dentistry, and Behavioral Health.

Tom Carlson, PhD, is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Professor and Branch Director of the Couple and Family Therapy Program at Alliant International University, San Diego. He serves as Co-Editor of the Journal of Contemporary Narrative Therapy and is recognized for his contributions to narrative therapy, pedagogy, LGBTQ-affirmative therapy, relational accountability in couples therapy, and pro-feminist approaches to supporting women impacted by patriarchal violence. Dr. Carlson has published and presented extensively in these areas. His recent works include Reimagining Narrative Therapy Through Practice Stories (co-authored with David Epston and Travis Heath) and So You Want to Do Narrative Therapy? Letters to an Aspiring Narrative Therapist (with Sanni Paljakka, Routledge, 2024). Dr. Carlson resides and works in southern California and traces his ancestral heritage to Norway and Sweden.

Tony Rousmaniere PsyD, is President of Sentio University, which offers an online/hybrid MFT program in California built around Deliberate Practice methodology. The program is the first MFT training program approved by the California BBS that integrates Deliberate Practice and AI into MFT education and clinical training. Sentio also offers a BBS-approved supervisor training program for licensed clinicians in California. Dr. Rousmaniere is also Executive Director of the Sentio Counseling Center, the guaranteed practicum placement for the Sentio MFT program, where students provide sliding-scale online therapy in California. He is the author or coeditor of numerous books on psychotherapy training, including the APA Essentials of Deliberate Practice series, and is a past president of the American Psychological Association’s Division 29 (Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy).

Tony Rousmaniere PsyD, is President of Sentio University, which offers an online/hybrid MFT program in California built around Deliberate Practice methodology. The program is the first MFT training program approved by the California BBS that integrates Deliberate Practice and AI into MFT education and clinical training. Sentio also offers a BBS-approved supervisor training program for licensed clinicians in California. Dr. Rousmaniere is also Executive Director of the Sentio Counseling Center, the guaranteed practicum placement for the Sentio MFT program, where students provide sliding-scale online therapy in California. He is the author or coeditor of numerous books on psychotherapy training, including the APA Essentials of Deliberate Practice series, and is a past president of the American Psychological Association’s Division 29 (Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy).

Tracy Knight is a licensed clinical psychologist in Illinois with thirty-three years of clinical experience. He received his PhD from the Fielding Institute. After practicing full-time for 24 years, in 2001 he joined the psychology faculty at Western Illinois University, where he directs the clinical graduate program and the university’s no-fee community clinic. He also is a fiction author, with two novels and over twenty short stories published to date.

Tracy Asamoah, MD, completed medical school at the University of California, San Francisco and attended David Geffen UCLA School of Medicine for both her general psychiatry residency and child/adolescent psychiatry fellowship. She has enjoyed working in a variety of community treatment settings and has served as faculty at both the University of New Mexico School of Medicine and Texas A&M School of Medicine. In 2014, she transitioned to her current private practice in Austin, TX due to a growing concern about the barriers that certain work environments created in connecting with her patients. In her practice, she works with youth and their families who deal with a variety of diagnoses, including anxiety disorders, mood disorders, autism spectrum disorders and ADHD.

Travis Heath, PhD, is a licensed psychologist and has been in community practice for nearly two decades. His scholarship has included looking at shifting from a multicultural approach to counseling to one of cultural democracy that invites people to heal in mediums that are culturally near. Other writings have focused on the use of rap music in narrative therapy, working with persons entangled in the criminal injustice system in ways that maintain their dignity, narrative practice stories as pedagogy, and a co-created questioning practice called reunion questions. He is co-author, with David Epston and Tom Carlson, of the first book on Contemporary Narrative Therapy released in June 2022 entitled, “Reimagining Narrative Therapy Through Practice Stories and Autoethnography.” He has presented his work in 10 countries to date. 

Trish Thompson (she/her) is a clinical counsellor, psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice in Melbourne, Australia. With over 28 years of experience, she has also worked with a number of community organisations and has taught in a range of counselling training programs. While group therapy and relationship counselling are strong areas of interest, she devotes much energy to mentoring counsellors in early career, particularly through group supervision, in which reflective practice is combined with creative and artistic collaborations. Her writing experience includes a book chapter and a number of articles to journals such as Psychotherapy & Counselling Today and the website Psychotherapy.net.