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with mental health agencies in the Los Angeles area. He has been
a California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist for more than 13
years, specializing in sexual minorit y mental health, couple therapy, and
working with same-sex couples.
Brent Bradley, PhD, is assistant professor of counseling and director of the
marriage and family therapy track in the Graduate Counseling Depart ment
at Indiana Wesleyan Universit y. He received his doctorate in Marriage and
Family Therapy from Fuller Seminary School of Psychology in 2001. He is
a clinical member of the American Association for Marriage and Family
Therapy. Dr. Bradley has published original research in emotionally fo-
cused couples therapy ( EF T ), and actively r esearches, writes, and presents
the approach.
Stephen Cheung, PsyD, is an interim core faculty of clinical psychology at
Antioch Universit y in Los Angeles. He is teaching Brief Therapy, Family
Therapy, Group Therapy, and Psychological Testing. Before he joined An-
tioch Universit y in 2004, Dr. Cheung had been a program director and
clinical psychologist at Asian Pacific Counseling and Treat ment Centers
(APCTC) in Los Angeles coordinating and supervising their children and
adult programs for 12 years. For almost three decades, he has been
providing short-term and longer-term psychotherapy to a wide variet y of
clients. He has specialized in: Eating, Substance-related, Personalit y,
Mood, and Anxiet y Disorders; grief therapy; and psychological testing.
Since 1996, he has been teaching at Phillips Graduate Instit ute, California
State Universit y at Los Angeles, and Pepperdine Universit y. He has also
been presenting training in strategic and solution-focused brief therapy,
an integrated treat ment approach to eating disorders, and psychotheray
with childhood abuse survivors in local, national, and international men-
tal health conferences.
Kahni Clements received her BA in psychology from t he Universit y of Cal-
ifornia at Los Angeles. She is currently a graduate st udent in clinical psy-
chology at Indiana Universit y-Bloomington. Her r esearch interests are
relationship violence and couples communication interactions.
Yolanda de Varela , PhD Candidate, is a clinical psychologist with a master’s
degree in educational psychology and is completing her doctorate. She has
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been president of the Panamanian Psychological Association, a founding
member of the International Instit ute of Object Relations Therapy, and direc-
tor of the Panama Satellite Program of IIORT. She is author and co-author of
many articles on object relations and on couples therapy.
Coreen Farrisreceived her BA in psychology from Brandeis University. She
is a graduate st udent in clinical psychology at Indiana Universit y-Bloom-
ington. Her research interests are in substance use and agg ression.
Ellen Faulk, MA,is a facult y member at Phillips Graduate Instit ute in En-
cino, California. She is a member of the California Association of Marriage
and Family Therapists, the American Association for Marriage and Family
Therapy, and a st udent member of the American Psychological Association.
Ms. Faulk provides training, workshops, and consultation for mental health
providers on working with adult survivors of sexual abuse. She has been a
consultant to the Los Angeles Police Depart ment and the Los Angeles Fed- eral Bureau of Investigation. Ms. Faulk is a practicing marriage and family
therapist specializing in traumatized populations.
Lori H. Gordon, PhD, is founder/president/training director of the PAIRS
Foundation, Inc. and serves as chief executive off icer of the executive board.
She conducts a private clinical practice through the Family Relations Insti-
t ute, Falls Church, Virginia, and consults through Tequesta Consulting
Services, Ltd. in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She is the author of three popular
books: Love Knots, Passage to Intimacy, andIf You Really Loved Me. She is also
co-author of two professional articles on the PAIR S program as well as a
range of professional training curricula, articles, and materials. She contin-
ues to develop relationship programs through the PAIR S Foundation that
are designed to sustain healthy marriages and stable fa milies. Dr. Gordon
trains health care professionals and selected public worldwide to teach the
range of PAIR S programs.
Michele Harway, PhD, ABPP, is a member of the core facult y in the Psy-
chology Depart ment at Antioch Universit y, Santa Barbara. She is also a
member of the consulting facult y at the Fielding Graduate Instit ute and
she maintains a private practice in Westlake Village, California. Dr. Har-
way has written and presented extensiv ely on domestic violence, trauma
survival, gender, and family issues. She is the author or editor of eight
books including Treating the Changing Family: Handling Normative and Un-
usual Events andSpouse Abuse: Assessing & Treating Battered Women, Batterers,
and Their Children (Second Edition). Active in governance of the American
Psychological Association (APA), she is past-p resident of the Division of
Family Psychology and current treasurer of the Societ y for the St udy of
Men and Masculinit y. She is a fellow of three divisions of APA and is also
a board-certif ied family psychologist (ABPP).
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Amy Holtzwor th-Munroe, PhD,is a professor of psychology at Indiana
Universit y, Bloomington. She received her doctorate in clinical psychology
from the Universit y of Washington. For almost 20 years, she has