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Susan Winston, LMFT, is a television producer turned psychotherapist in private practice in Los Angeles, CA and Great Barrington, MA. She specializes in work with people facing high stress, anxiety, depression, emotional reactivity, bipolar diagnosis, continued addiction recovery and more. Her motto is SHIFT HAPPENS. She joins her clients in riding the tidal wave of change. 

Sylvia Johnson, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and author who lives in Tampa, Florida. She specializes in grief and working with couples and young children. Her blog, “A Mindful Grief,” appears in PsychologyToday.com. She has written essays for Psychotherapy Networker, Reader's Digest, and other publications. Her unpublished manuscript, Why Jillian?, is a memoir about her journey through her young daughter's cancer diagnosis and death. Dr. Johnson can be contacted at sylviaalvarezjohnson@gmail.com.

Tab Ballis is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Clinical Addictions Specialist in private practice in the coastal town of Wilmington, North Carolina. Tab’s clinical philosophy can best be summed up by John Updike, who wrote, “Life has a way of punishing you if you take it too seriously, or not seriously enough.” Conscious Creativity, his unique approach to enhancing creativity, has been well-received by artists and professional groups. Tab produced the videotape Tools and Techniques for Family Therapy, which is offered on this website. His practice website is www.insightwellnessservices.com. Tab can be contacted at info@insightwellnessservices.com.

Tamar Kaim has been conducting clinical research for a number of years in various mental health settings around the world from seeking the genes associated with bipolar disorder in Massachusetts to her work with African immigrants in Paris, France, to most recently, a study of intercultural mediators working with Moroccan psychiatric patients in Belgium.

Tamar has a BA in Psychology and French from Amherst College and an MA in Intercultural Conflict Management from Alice Salomon University in Berlin, Germany with a focus on mental health care for immigrant populations. Contact Tamar.

Simon Yisrael Feuerman, PsyD., LCSW, is a licensed clinical social worker and a psychotherapist and is director of the New Center for Advanced Psychotherapy Studies.

Simon Yisrael Feuerman, PsyD., LCSW, is a licensed clinical social worker and a psychotherapist and is director of the New Center for Advanced Psychotherapy Studies.