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Catherine Ambrose, LCSW, is a psychodynamically oriented psychotherapist with 20 years of experience in private practice, mostly at The Temenos Center for Psychotherapy and Personal Growth. She specializes in treating women with eating disorders and couples with relationship problems. She recently graduated from New Directions: Writing with a Psychological Edge, a 3-year program in writing and psychoanalysis sponsored by the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis. Her work has been published in Voices: The Art and Science of Psychotherapy.

Catherine Gildiner, Ph.D., is a bestselling memoirist, a novelist, and a psychologist who practiced privately for 25 years. This book focuses on five brave men and women who overcame enormous trauma–in her view, should be celebrated. With a novelist’s storytelling gift, Gildiner recounts the details of her patients’ struggles and their paths to recovery and weaves in her own tale of her growth as a psychologist. In therapy, patients have to become vulnerable by stripping away their defenses, but so do therapists. 

Cathy Cole, LCSW, has trained thousands of diverse professionals in MI since 1995, and is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers. She maintains an active clinical practice.

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Cecilia Dintino, PsyD, is a psychologist in private practice in New York City. She is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychology at Columbia University Medical Center and on faculty with New York University’s Program in Drama Therapy. She is co-founder of Twisting the Plot and Twisting the Plot Podcast with the mission to help women over 50 imagine and create new futures. 

Chanda Rankin currently holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the Wright Institute and a CADC II. She has a full-time private practice in Los Angeles as an addictions counselor. Dr. Rankin specializes in working with performing artists and other creative individuals. Dr. Rankin can be reached at 310-477-0443.

Prof. Charles R. Figley, Ph.D., is the Paul Henry Kurzweg, MD Distinguished Chair in Disaster Mental Health and a Tulane University Graduate School of Social Work Professor since July 2008. He is also director of the Traumatology Institute and the  Co-Director of the Disaster Resilience Leadership Academy.  In addition to traumatic stress and resilience, Dr. Figley and his research teams have focused on other types of stress including fame-related stress, animal care-related stress, social, and lawyers and law librarians stress. Most of this research has been guided by and contributes to theories and interventions that are evidence-based which prevent, limit, or eliminate unwanted distress.

Dr. Charles Mansueto is the director of the Behavior Therapy Center of Greater Washington. He received his doctorate from Catholic University and completed his post-doctoral clinical training at Temple University School of Medicine. He has over 25 years of clinical experience in the application of behavior therapy to a broad range of clinical problems. Dr. Mansueto is past chair and current member of the science advisory board of the national Trichotillomania Learning Center. He also serves as a member of the science advisory board of the Obsessive Compulsive Foundation and of the medical advisory board of the Tourette’s Syndrome Association of Greater Washington. He is past professor of psychology at Bowie State University, and is on the clinical faculty of the American School of Professional Psychology at Argosy University.

Charlotte Dailey is an Oakland, CA–based writer who enjoyed a career as a psychotherapist before leaving the field to pursue her writing full-time. She has a Master's degree in Clinical Psychology.

Charlotte Fox Weber, UKCP Reg MBACP, is a psychotherapist based in London. She started the in-house psychotherapy service at The School of Life and works in private practice. She can be reached at: charliefoxweber@gmail.com