Russ Harris is an internationally acclaimed acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) trainer, and author of the bestselling ACT-based self-help book, The Happiness Trap, which has sold more than one million copies and been published in thirty languages.
Alexandra Kennedy, MA, LMFT, is a psychotherapist in private practice forty-eight years; and author of Losing a Parent, The Infinite Thread, and How Did I Miss All This Before?. She has taught at John F. Kennedy University; the University of California, Santa Cruz Extension; and the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology.
Sameet M. Kumar, PhD, is a psychologist at the Memorial Healthcare System Cancer Institute in Broward County, Florida; with over a decade of experience working with end-of-life and bereavement. He is author of Grieving Mindfully, as well as The Mindful Path through Worry and Rumination.
Mary Beth Williams, PhD, LCSW, CTS, is an author, researcher, lecturer, and trainer in the area of trauma. She also treats trauma survivors in private practice at the Trauma Recovery Education and Counseling Center in Warrenton, Virginia. Williams is former president of the Association of Traumatic Stress Specialists.
Soili Poijula, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, licensed psychotherapist, and director at Oy Synolon Ltd., a center for trauma psychology in Finland, where she has done pioneering work as a developer of post-trauma psychotherapy.
An award-winning actor, narrator, and singer, Richard Trinder has worked on stage, screen, and behind the microphone for nearly thirty years. On screen he has been a Harry Potter movie villain, fought alongside Doctor Who, smoldered as various soap-opera love interests, and appeared in over fifty TV commercials.