Joy Steen, MA holds a master's degree in Education and Human Development with a concentration in Counseling from The George Washington University. She is also certified by the National Board for Certified Counselors.
Joy is a native of Winston-Salem, NC who currently resides in the Northern Virginia area. She has worked in the counseling field for the past 9 years and specializes in serving children and adolescents. Joy uses a client-centered, strength-focused approach within her counseling. Additionally, Joy is culturally responsive, open to exploring intersections of race and gender, and is available for faith-based counseling.
Joy identifies as a cisgender, White, Christian, female. She is a wife and is raising a blended, bi-racial family.
Joyce Mills, PhD, known for her warm, playfully dynamic, and inspirational style, is a nationally and internationally recognized storyteller, keynote presenter, workshop leader, consultant, trauma specialist, and program developer for health-care, psychological, educational, and community organizations. Founder of The StoryPlay® Center, Dr. Mills is the recipient of the 1997 Play Therapy International Award for outstanding career contributions to the field of Play Therapy and Child Psychology. A Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and Registered Play Therapy Supervisor, Dr. Mills is an Ericksonian-trained clinician who specializes in indirect therapy, and is the author and co-author of several books including the award-winning Therapeutic Metaphors for Children and the Child Within, Reconnecting to the Magic of Life, Sammy the Elephant and Mr. Camel, Gentle Willow, and Little Tree.
Jude Austin, PhD, has a doctorate in Counselor Education and Supervision, and is an LPC, LMFT, NCC, and a CCMHC. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Professional Counseling Program at the University of Mary Hardin Baylor and serves as the program’s Clinical Mental Health Counseling Track Coordinator. He is also in private practice in Temple, Texas. His research focuses on counselor education pedagogy, specifically finding ways to help counseling students develop therapeutic presence in session. He was a 2021 American Counseling Association conference Keynote Speaker and is the co-author of the books Counselor Self-Care published by the American Counseling Association, Surviving and Thriving in your Counseling Program published by the American Counseling Association, and The Counselor Educator’s Guide: Practical In-Class Strategies and Activities published by Springer Publishing Company. He is currently under contract with the American Counseling Association to publish the book A Guide to Doing Counseling.
Judith Rubin, a pioneer in the field of art therapy, is on the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. She is a Registered, Board-Certified Art Therapist and a Licensed Psychologist. Dr. Rubin is the author of five books, including: Child Art Therapy, The Art of Art Therapy, and Art Therapy: An Introduction. She was the “Art Lady” on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood in the 1960s.
A past President and Honorary Life Member of the American Art Therapy Association, Dr. Rubin is retired from full-time clinical practice, and is devoting her energies to creating and disseminating films on the arts in therapy through a nonprofit organization, Expressive Media, Inc. Her other films include Beyond Words: Art Therapy with Older Adults (2004), We’ll Show You What We’re Gonna Do! (art with blind children, 1971), Children & the Arts (all of the arts with children, 1973), and The Green Creature Within (group art-drama therapy with adolescents, 1984). More about Judith Rubin’s films and the organization can be found at http://www.expressivemedia.org.
Judith Bachay, PhD is a Professor in the Social Science and Counseling Department at St. Thomas University, and a founding member of the University's Loss and Healing program. She is an interdisciplinary professor who teaches across the Marriage and Family Therapy, Mental Health and School Counseling programs. She has published in the fields of conflict mediation and resolution and. She is an international educator who has taught in Ireland, Spain, Germany, Italy, Bosnia and Croatia. As a Fulbright scholar in Slovenia, she was able to provide an interdisciplinary lens to the way that people tackle complex problems. Dr. Bachay serves as a consultant for the Peace Education Foundation and is dedicated to scholarly community engagement through Center for Community Engagement.
Judith S. Beck, PhD is the Director of the Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Research in Philadelphia and Clinical Associate Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Beck is internationally renowned in the field of Cognitive Therapy. She wrote the basic textbook, Cognitive Therapy: Basics and Beyond. She has written many books including The Beck Diet Solution: Train Your Brain to Think Like a Thin Person, and numerous articles and chapters on various applications of Cognitive Therapy.
Judith Grisel, PhD, is an internationally recognized behavioral neuroscientist and a professor of psychology at Bucknell University with expertise in pharmacology and genetics whose research focuses on determining root causes of drug addiction. She studies sex differences in the role of stress and endorphins on drug reward and works to identify innate factors that contribute to individual differences in the liability toward addiction. Her recent research helps explain the different trajectories of alcohol abuse in men and women.
Judith R. Smith, LCSW, is an Associate Professor at Graduate School of Social Services at Fordham University. Her filmmaking is informed by her clinical experience as a psychotherapist, a social work researcher and professor. During her forty-year career as a clinical social worker and academic, she has produced many educational films which have grown out of her direct practice and teaching. In addition to the videos sold here, Smith’s film credits include “The separation-individuation process: The psychological birth of the human infant” produced by the Margaret Mahler Foundation; and “The Woman’s Film” produced by San Francisco Newsreel.
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Judith Rubin, PhD, is a psychologist and art therapist and is on the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. Dr. Rubin is the author of five books, including The Art of Art Therapy.
Eleanor Irwin, PhD, is a psychologist and drama therapist, as well as an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh.