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Brittany Washington, LCSW, is a suicide prevention case manager, Doctoral candidate at Barry University, and a part-time private practice owner. Her clinical work focuses on trauma-informed care, culturally responsive therapy, and suicide prevention. She is passionate about creating a safe and equitable healing space for marginalized populations. Brittany’s approach is rooted in person-centered principles and guided by an awareness of systemic injustice. With that, she strives to honor every client's lived experience and works to empower clients to shift from survival to quality living. 

Brooke Sheehan, DSW, LCSW, CCS, is a clinical social worker specializing in the area of correctional mental health. Brooke has done work with both incarcerated men and women and specializes in treating individuals with severe and persistent mental illness as well as those experiencing acute psychotic illness and delusional disorders while in the correctional system. She has a special interest in the impact of maternal incarceration on children’s attachment styles and the disruption of family systems. Brooke currently works as a behavioral health director in the field of corrections.

Brooke Sheehand, DSW, is a clinical social worker specializing in the area of correctional mental health. Brooke has done work with both incarcerated men and women and specializes in treating individuals with severe and persistent mental illness as well as those experiencing acute psychotic illness and delusional disorders while in the correctional system. She has a special interest in the impact of maternal incarceration on children’s attachment styles and the disruption of family systems. Brooke currently works as a behavioral health director in the field of corrections.

Bruce Ecker is co-originator of Depth Oriented Brief Therapy (now known as Coherence Therapy) and co-author of Depth-Oriented Brief Therapy: How To Be Brief When You Were Trained To Be Deep, and Vice Versa, as well as numerous articles and training videos. He has taught widely in graduate courses at JFK University, professional workshop and clinical conferences, and operates a private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Bruce Masek, PhD is Director of the Child and Adolescent Outpatient Psychiatry Service at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and Associate Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School. Recipient of the Society of Behavioral Medicine President's Award, he has authored over 80 original articles, reviews, and book chapters and is recognized internationally as one of the field's foremost experts.

Bruce S. Liese, PhD is an Associate Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Kansas Medical Center. He has extensive experience as a cognitive therapist and has been in the forefront of practitioners who have successfully applied this model to addiction related issues.

Bruce E. Wampold, PhD, was trained in mathematics (University of Washington) before earning his doctorate in counseling psychology (University of California, Santa Barbara), is the Patricia L. Wolleat Professor of Counseling Psychology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison as well as the director of Research Institute at Modum Bad Psychiatric Center in Vikersund, Norway. Currently his work involves understanding psychotherapy from empirical, historical, and anthropological perspectives, which has led to the development of a contextual model of psychotherapy. His work is summarized in The Great Psychotherapy Debate: The Evidence for What Makes Psychotherapy Work (with Z. Imel, 2nd ed., Routledge, 2015). He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, a Diplomate in Counseling Psychology of the American Board of Professional Psychology, the recipient of the 2007 Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research Award from the American Psychological Association, and an Honorary Doctor in the Social Sciences, Stockholm University.

Caitlin Bell is a Queensland-based psychologist and psychodynamic psychotherapist, with a background in arts and philosophy. Her previous research has focused on burnout and stress among healthcare professionals. She works therapeutically with therapists and healing professionals who want to know themselves deeply and live more full and meaningful lives. To learn more, please visit her website, caitlinbellpsychologist.com. 

Karen Furore Grau and Larry Grau officially launched Calamari Productions in 1995, after a decade of journalism and education policy experience. President and Executive Producer Karen Grau brings 25 years of broadcast experience to all Calamari projects. Her career also includes three years as Deputy Legislative Director to former Indiana Governor Evan Bayh, where her work included analyzing the content and fiscal impact of legislation drafted by state agencies under the jurisdiction of the Governor's office. Karen also assisted in writing three State of the State addresses. In 2014, Karen was named a Knight Foundation Fellow in Ethics at Washington & Lee University.

Larry Grau served as Senior Education Policy Executive to former Indiana Governor Frank O'Bannon, where he drafted and directed several major initiatives enacted into law, including creating a stakeholders' education roundtable, a statewide comprehensive education accountability system, establishing the state's first alternative education program, and creating Indiana's initial early education reading diagnostic policies and programs.
Calamari Productions remains the only production company in the United States with state Supreme Court access allowing documentary cameras inside child welfare juvenile courts, venues that are—by law—closed to the media and the public. Calamari has turned that trust and extraordinary camera access into unprecedented, award-winning documentary series and video content used around the globe, from television outlets and networks such as ABC, NBC, MSNBC, A&E, MTV, Dateline NBC, Hulu, Nightline, Good Morning America, 20/20, Court TV, PBS, Bio and Channel 4 (UK), to universities and state governments around the country. Calamari video content is used for education and training purposes in over 14 countries, 200 universities, 25 Policy and Advocacy organizations and 85 state government agencies and facilities.

Today, Karen and Larry continue to direct and manage the creative vision that has put the company on the cutting edge of news, documentary and digital content programming. In their spare time they can be found spending time with their adult children, volunteering with at-risk kids and rescuing stray animals when not behind a camera!