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Daniel Bates, PhD, has over 15 years of clinical experience in the mental health field, specializing in men’s mental health, family therapy, and working with parent-child issues. He is a nationally board-certified counselor (NCC), and a board certified telemental health counselor (BC-TMH) through the National Board of Certified Counselors. His research interests are measurement of positive masculinity, men’s mental health, and emotion regulation. He has presented at 20+ professional conferences, and has published in peer-reviewed journals, and is the author of academic textbooks including Demystifying Research Methods, Counseling with Men, and edited books Innovative Approaches in Counselor Education for Students With Disabilities, and Mental Health Counseling for Men. 

Dan Siegel, MD, is a Harvard trained physician and researcher as well as a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and the founding co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA. Dr. Siegel is the Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute, an educational organization which focuses on the study and application of Interpersonal Neurobiology, the interface of human relationships and basic biological processes. Dr. Siegel is a practicing clinician and prolific author whose The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are (2nd. Ed., Guilford, 2012) introduces the field of interpersonal neurobiology. His work has been extensively utilized by a number of clinical and research organizations worldwide and as such has been translated into over forty languages. His upcoming book Aware: The Science and Practice of Presence (Tarcher/Perigee, August 2018) will introduce readers to his Wheel of Awareness, a powerful and pioneering tool for self-enhancement.

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Dan Wile, PhD is the developer of Collaborative Couples Therapy, and the author of Couples Therapy: a Nontraditional Approach, After the Honeymoon: How Conflict Can Improve Your Relationship, and After the Fight: Using Your Disagreements to Build a Stronger Relationship, as well as over 20 articles and chapters. John Gottman, the preeminent researcher on couples therapy has described Dr. Wile as "a genius and the greatest living couples therapist." His website is www.danwile.com.

Dan Wile, PhD is the developer of Collaborative Couples Therapy, and the author of Couples Therapy: a Nontraditional Approach, After the Honeymoon: How Conflict Can Improve Your Relationship, and After the Fight: Using Your Disagreements to Build a Stronger Relationship, as well as over 20 articles and chapters. John Gottman, the preeminent researcher on couples therapy has described Dr. Wile as "a genius and the greatest living couples therapist." His website is www.danwile.com.

Dan Williams is a psychotherapist and performance consultant practicing in the Boston area. He is also a writer. Aside from writing many essays and scholarly articles, he is the author of one book, Executing Justice: An Inside Account of the Case of Mumia Abu Jamal, and is nearing completion of another, The Storm and The Whisper. Before becoming a psychotherapist, Dan was a courtroom lawyer, specializing in capital punishment, and then a law professor, teaching at Northeastern and Harvard University. He is an ardent Zen practitioner.

Dana Harron, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist and the author of Loving Someone with an Eating Disorder: Understanding, Supporting & Connecting with Your Partner. She is the founder and director of Monarch Wellness & Psychotherapy, a boutique practice in Washington DC, that specializes in mind-body issues such as eating disorders, trauma, chronic pain, and fertility.

Dr. Caroline Rosenthal Gelman is an Associate Professor at the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, and Director of the Education, Training and Lifelong Learning Core of the Silberman Center of Excellence in Aging and Diversity. She received her BA in Anthropology from Harvard in 1987, her MSW from the School of Social Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1991, and her Ph.D. from Smith College School for Social Work in 1998.

Dr. Rosenthal Gelman has practiced as a clinical social worker for 23 years, specializing in mental health issues in a variety of settings and with diverse populations. She has an especially strong commitment to and interest in working with Latino populations, and has done so throughout her career. Most recently she has focused on the experiences and needs of older adults and their caregivers. Her most recent completed project, the Caregiver Ombudsman Outreach Program, provided referral, information and respite services to nearly 200 diverse caregivers of older adults in the underserved areas of West Harlem, Washington Heights and Inwood in New York City. The project was a collaboration of eight community agencies and Silberman School of Social Work. She has been the PI on various grants tailoring and evaluating supportive interventions for Latino family caregivers of persons with AD, and exploring obstacles to diagnosis and intervention in this population, as well as the role of culture in their experience of caregiving.

In addition, for the past seven years, Dr. Rosenthal Gelman has focused on researching and implementing best practices for exposing MSW students to knowledge and skills in working with older adults. She has been PI or Co-PI on various grants to develop gerontological training material from the Council on Social Work Education’s Gero-Ed Center and The John A. Hartford Foundation, which funded the development of computer-mediated modules highlighting knowledge and skills in assessment, diagnosis, and intervention with older adults aimed at exposing all advanced concentration social work students to mental health practice with the aging. In recognition and support of her work with and research on older adults, she was selected as a Hartford Faculty Scholar in Geriatric Social Work by the John A. Hartford Foundation and the Gerontological Society of America for 2007 to 2010. 

Carolyn Ng, PsyD, FT, MMSAC, RegCLR, maintains a private practice, Anchorage for Loss and Transition, for training, supervision and therapy in Singapore, while also serving as an Associate Director of the Portland Institute. Previously she served as Principal Counselor with the Children’s Cancer Foundation in Singapore, specializing in cancer-related palliative care and bereavement counselling. She is a master clinical member and approved supervisor with the Singapore Association for Counselling (SAC) and a Fellow in Thanatology with the Association of Death Education and Counselling (ADEC), USA, as well as a consultant to a cancer support and bereavement ministry in Sydney, Australia. She is certified in Solution-Focused Brief Therapy and Narrative Therapy and holds an MA in Pastoral Ministry from Trinity Theological Seminary in the USA. She is also a trained end-of-life doula and advanced care planning facilitator.