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Francis Weller, MFT, is a psychotherapist, writer, and soul activist. He is a master of synthesizing diverse streams of thought from psychology, anthropology, mythology, alchemy, indigenous cultures, and poetic traditions. Author of The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief; The Threshold Between Loss and Revelation, (with Rashani Réa) and  In the Absence of the Ordinary: Essays in a Time of Uncertainty, he has introduced the healing work of ritual to thousands of people. He founded and directs WisdomBridge, an organization that offers educational programs that seek to integrate the wisdom from indigenous cultures with the insights and knowledge gathered from western poetic, psychological and spiritual traditions. 

For thirty-eight years Francis has worked as a psychotherapist and developed a style he calls soul-centered psychotherapy. As a gifted therapist and teacher, he has been described as a jazz artist, improvising, and moving fluidly in and out of deep emotional territories with groups and individuals, bringing imagination and attention to places often held with judgment and shame. His latest offerings are a 10-session audio series on "Living a Soulful Life and Why It Matters." and "The Alchemy of Initiation: Soul Work and the Art of Ripening." He is currently completing his fourth book, A Trail on the Ground: The Geography of Soul.

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Oliver Morgan, Ph.D. is Professor of Counseling & Human Services in the Panuska College of Professional Studies at the University of Scranton (Scranton, PA). Since joining the full time faculty at the University of Scranton in 1990, Dr. Oliver has taught a variety of courses in both undergraduate Human Services and graduate Clinical Mental Health Counseling programs. He has responsibility for shaping courses in Addiction Studies as well as in Marital and Family Counseling.  He served as Department Chair from 1997-2009.

In the wider community Dr. Oliver began one of the first psychosocial oncology practices in Northeast Pennsylvania. For over ten years he and his colleagues and interns have served hundreds of patients struggling with cancer as well as their caretakers and loved ones.

Dr. Oliver was honored as the second Leahy Faculty Fellow in his College during the years 2002-2004 and was the University’s CASE Professor Nominee in 2008. He is a licensed Marriage & Family Therapist in Pennsylvania (LMFT), Clinical Member (and former Approved Supervisor) of the American Association of Marital & Family Therapists, and a Master Addiction Counselor (MAC).

EDUCATION

He has had what can only be called a “diverse” education. He graduated from Fordham University (Magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) with a Bachelor’s degree in English and Philosophy with a specialization in phenomenology. After a stint as a high school teacher (quite an education in itself!), he completed a Master of Divinity degree, followed by a Master’s in Marital and Family Therapy during which he had the great privilege of studying and working with Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy, MD, one of the founders of family therapy. A few years later Dr. Oliver began and eventually completed a doctoral degree in Pastoral Psychotherapy at Boston University.

PUBLICATIONS

Dr. Oliver is the author of a new book, investigating the intersection of attachment theory, neuroscience, trauma and addiction:  Addiction, Attachment, Trauma, Recovery: The Power of Connection (WW Norton, 2019). He is also the editor/co-editor of five (5) other books, covering topics in Addiction Studies, Counseling & Spirituality, and Catholic Intellectual Thought.

He has authored or co-authored ten (10) book chapters and proceedings, covering topics that include Addiction, Pastoral Care, Spirituality, and clinical practice.  And, has published more than twenty-five peer-reviewed articles in the same range of topics and subject-matter.

SERVICE & LEADERSHIP ACTIVITIES

At the University of Scranton, he has served in special institutional leadership roles as chair or co-chair on several University-wide task forces, including the Task Force on Student Lifestyles (incl alcohol abuse, sexuality, and HIV/AIDS prevention) and the Task Force on Corporate Mission and Identity.

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Niall Geoghegan, Psy.D. is a Certified Advanced Practitioner of Coherence Therapy.   He collaborated closely with Bruce Ecker on creating the Coherence Psychology Institute's Training and Certification Program prior to 2015.  He was a contributing author to the groundbreaking book “Unlocking the Emotional Brain” (Routledge, 2012) on Coherence Therapy and Memory Reconsolidation.     Dr. Geoghegan is now head of development of the Experiential Psychotherapy Institute.  Its mission is to educate practitioners on the theory and techniques of a family of related experiential therapies.  He is editor-in-chief of its website, www.experiential-psychotherapies.com, which presents video tutorials on IFS, AEDP, Coherence Therapy, ISTDP, Brainspotting, Hakomi, Process Work, Focusing, EMDR, Coherent Narrative Therapy, Emotion Focused Therapy, Somatic Experiencing and more.    Dr. Geoghegan is in private practice in Berkeley, CA.  He received his Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the Wright Institute in Berkeley in 2005 and has been a student of the Ridhwan School of Spiritual Development since 2001.

Click here to view his 4-part YouTube series on Coherence Therapy

https://www.experiential-psychotherapies.com

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Roy Richard Grinker is Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Grinker was born and raised in Chicago where his great-grandfather, grandfather, and father worked as psychoanalysts. He graduated from Grinnell College in 1983 and received his Ph.D. in Social Anthropology at Harvard University in 1989. 

He is the author of Nobody’s Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness (NY: W.W. Norton, January 2021), Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism (NY: Basic Books), In the Arms of Africa: The Life of Colin M. Turnbull (Chicago: University of Chicago), Korea and its Futures: Unification and the Unfinished War (NY: St. Martin’s), and Houses in the Rainforest: Ethnicity and Inequality among Farmers and Foragers in Central Africa (Berkeley: University of California). He is co-editor of Perspectives on Africa: Culture, History, and Representation (Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell) and Companion to the Anthropology of Africa (Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell). Grinker was a 2008 recipient of the National Alliance on Mental Illness KEN award for “outstanding contribution to the understanding of mental illness” and the 2010 recipient of the American Anthropological Association’s Anthropology in the Media award for “communication of anthropology to the general public through the media.”

Twitter: @roygrinker

https://anthropology.columbian.gwu.edu/roy-richard-grinker

www.royrichardgrinker.com

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Heather Wokusch's career in organizational development, education, cross-culture, and media has spanned five continents and multiple sectors. An expert in virtual learning, she has spent the pandemic establishing an Impact Tech project promoting mental health and building capacity for psychosocial support in conflict zones.

Heather's recent TEDx Talk ('Protecting Mental Health in Crazy Times: A To-Do List') asks: How can we counteract the increasing rates of mental injury (and correlating issues such as burnout, depression, anxiety, and addiction) accompanying COVID-19? This TEDx Talk shares a checklist for handling trauma on personal and collective levels while promoting healing for ourselves and for our societies.

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Simon Cole is a psychological therapist with over 30 years experience and has worked in medical (NHS UK) and private settings in the UK, France and online.  He has worked with a very wide range of client difficulties, ages and backgrounds.  Almost 15 years ago he moved to France with his wife where they set up a retreat centre in the foothills of the Pyrenees mountains.  Here they offer individual and group retreats and therapy, which incorporate mindfulness, meditation, creative therapies and walking.

He has written several books on meditation and mindfulness, the human experience, and relationship, and sees the insights of Martin Buber on human relating and existence as one of the foundation stones of his philosophy.

Having been a musician since childhood he brings musical elements - the form, the immediacy, the flow - into all his work, and makes it a theme which anyone can use.  He calls it “musicking” - with a “k”, but it needs no previous musical experience.  His latest book “just BE here - the guide to Musicking Mindfulness” explains: “The ‘k’ is there because it may be, but it doesn’t have to be about making music in the way we conventionally think of it in any of our various cultures."

Email : [email protected]Books : www.stillnessinmind.comRetreats : www.retreats.life-counselling.co.ukCounselling : www.life-counselling.co.uk

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Brant Cortright, Ph.D., is the author of the Amazon #1 bestseller: Holistic Healing for Anxiety, Depression, and Cognitive Decline. His previous bestseller is The Neurogenesis Diet and Lifestyle. He is professor emeritus with the California Institute of Integral Studies. Dr. Cortright is a licensed clinical psychologist with a private practice in San Francisco as well as online. He also has an online coaching and consultation practice focused on brain health, anxiety, and depression. He is the author of two previous books, Psychotherapy and Spirit and Integral Psychology: Yoga, Growth and Opening the Heart (published by SUNY Press.)

Website: (http://brantcortright.com)

Facebook: (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100009036433305)

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Jon Frederickson, MSW, is on the faculty of the Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) Training Program at the Washington School of Psychiatry. Jon has provided ISTDP training in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Poland, Italy, Switzerland, India, Iran, Australia, Canada, the U.S., and the Netherlands.  He is the author of over fifty published papers and four books, Co-Creating Change: Effective Dynamic Therapy Techniques, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Learning to Listen from Multiple Perspectives, The Lies We Tell Ourselves, and Co-Creating Safety: healing the fragile patient. His book, Co-Creating Change, won the first prize in psychiatry in 2014 at the British Medical Association Book Awards, and it has been published in Farsi, Polish, and Slovak, and is currently being translated into Hebrew and Spanish. His book The Lies We Tell Ourselves has been published in Polish, Farsi, Norwegian, and Danish, and is currently being translated into German. He has DVDs of actual sessions with patients who previously failed in therapy at his websites www.istdpinstitute.com and www.deliberatepracticeinpsychotherapy.com  There you will also find skill-building exercises designed for therapists. He writes posts on ISTDP at www.facebook.com/DynamicPsychotherapy . His forthcoming skill-building book for therapists, Healing Through Relating, will come out in 2021

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Chaz Franke, MSW, LCSW has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from McKendree University, and a Master of Social Work degree from Saint Louis University (SLU). Chaz has been a practicing LCSW since 2009.

Chaz is the owner of Light Source, a private practice in Belleville, Illinois.

Chaz has been practicing therapy full time since 2007.  Since the beginning of his career as a therapist, Chaz has worked with trauma and its long reaching effects. This work has included extensive work with all ages and all walks of life. Chaz specializes in psychodynamics, self compassion, and integrating Eastern thought and philosophy into the therapeutic process .Chaz has participated in training with important figures in the field of therapy and psychology such as Dr. Ira Chasnoff,  and Dr. Bruce Perry. Chaz has presented on topics including, but not limited to Trauma, Wisdom and Self Compassion, Mindfulness,  Self Care, Transference and countertransference, and Early Intervention and Listening skills. Chaz is also currently employed as a faculty member in the Masters in Social Work program at Saint Louis University.

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Betsy Byler, MA, LPC-SAS, ICS, LPCC decided when she was 16 to become a therapist. A difficult teenager she'd seen and fired therapists until she found a therapist that could get through to her. That experience inspired her to work with angry teenagers and work to give others that same experience of being really "heard."  Working with dual diagnosis clients has been a passion of hers since the early days of her career and she has spent the years since running outpatient mental health and substance abuse programs, in addition to training therapists to work in the dual diagnosis space. 

She makes her home with her family in the woods of Northern Wisconsin. It's a very different scene than growing up in Chicagoland and she wouldn't have it any other way. In her work life, it was a difficult choice to leave agency life for private practice, but the time seemed right. The move into private practice and the following pandemic provided time to work on a new venture, the podcast. Betsy is passionate about bridging the gap between our training and the need for mental health therapists who know how to treat addiction. The podcast, All Things Substance, is the place for therapists to gain the information they need to treat substance abuse in addition to mental health.

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