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GAINS Board of Directors

Debra Pearce-McCall, Ph.D.
President
Journal Co-Editor

Lauren Culp, LMFT
Vice-President
www.laurenculp.com

Bonnie Badenoch, Ph.D., LMFT
Treasurer
Journal Co-Editor
www.nurturingtheheart.com

Kirke Olson, Psy.D.
Secretary
Education Committee

Ward Davis, Psy.D.
Website Committee
www.drwarddavis.com

Orli Peter, Ph.D.
Membership Committee
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Sue Marriott, LCSW
Austin IN Connection
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Richard Hill, M.A., M.Ed.
Business Committee
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Lynda Klau, Ph.D.
Business Committee
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Bonnie Badenoch, Ph.D., LMFT

clinician, author, speaker and consultant

Bonnie Badenoch, Ph.D., LMFTBonnie Badenoch, Ph.D., has been foundational in the creation and development of GAINS and the unique GAINS publication, for which she continues to serve as Editor. She is known for the wise and compassionate ways she integrates the discoveries of neuroscience into the art of therapy. Her conviction that wisdom about the relational brain can transform human experience led to writing Being a Brain-Wise Therapist: A Practical Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology and its companion workbook, both for the Norton Series. She co-founded Nurturing the Heart with the Brain in Mind, a non-profit agency, in 2008, and teaches in the Interpersonal Neurobiology certificate program at Portland State University. An international speaker and consultant, Dr. Badenoch also leads in-person and online study groups about applying IPNB principles both personally and professionally.

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Daniel J. Siegel, M.D.

theorist, author, clinician, UCLA professor, and international speaker

Daniel J. Siegel, M.D. Dan Siegel, M.D., is one of the innovators who synthesized the science of the brain, attachment relationships, and the emergent mind into the theoretical framework of Interpersonal Neurobiology. Having amplified the understandings originally published in his seminal book The Developing Mind (1999), through volumes including The Mindful Brain (2007), Mindsight (2010), and The Mindful Therapist (2010), Dr. Siegel is now dedicated to bringing the message of mindsight and integration as the cornerstone of mental health to people in many fields—psychotherapy, parenting, education, organizational development and others.

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Allan N. Schore, Ph.D.

theorist, author, clinician, and UCLA clinical faculty-member

Allan N. Schore, Ph.D.Over the last two decades, Dr. Allan Schore's interdisciplinary studies have been directed towards integrating psychological and biological models of emotional and social development across the lifespan. His work has been an important catalyst in the ongoing "emotion revolution" now occurring across all clinical and scientific disciplines. His Regulation Theory, grounded in developmental neuroscience and developmental psychoanalysis, focuses on the origin, psychopathogenesis, and psychotherapeutic treatment of the early forming subjective implicit self.

Clinician-scientist, author, mentor, on the editorial staff of 35 journals across disciplines, international speaker – he provides guidance to fellow clinicians while continuing to expand the theoretical foundations of interpersonal neurobiology. He currently serves as Editor of the acclaimed Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology.

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Louis Cozolino, Ph.D.

theorist, author, clinician, and Pepperdine professor

Louis Cozolino, Ph.D.Dr. Cozolino is a Los Angeles clinical psychologist, a Professor of Psychology at Pepperdine University and an Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA. He is the author of four books, The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy (with the second edition released in 2010), The Making of a Therapist, The Neuroscience of Human Relationships, and The Healthy Aging Brain, all published by W.W. Norton. He has authored and co-authored articles and book chapters on topics from child abuse and schizophrenia, to language and cognition. Currently, he is working on a book that will bring the principles of interpersonal neurobiology to education.

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Marco Iacoboni, M.D., Ph.D.

mirror-neuron investigator, UCLA professor, and author

Marco Iacoboni, M.D., Ph.D.Marco Iacoboni, M.D., Ph.D., is a neurologist and neuroscientist originally from Italy. Today he is Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and Director of the Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation laboratory of the Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center. He discussed mirror neurons at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2010 and with the Dalai Lama in Brisbane in 2011. Dr. Iacoboni describes the research on mirror neurons for the general reader in his book Mirroring People: The Science of Empathy and How We Connect with Others.

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Stephen Porges, Ph.D.

creator and pioneer of the Polyvagal Theory, researcher, and author

Stephen Porges, Ph.D.Stephen W. Porges, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychiatry and BioEnginneering and Director of the Brain-Body Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His work on the autonomic nervous system has led to a new understanding of mechanisms involved in behavioral regulation and social engagement behaviors. He is developing new biobehavioral assessment tools to monitor individual differences in physiological regulation of behavioral state. His research has led to an innovative intervention, The Listening Project, designed to exercise the neural regulation of middle ear structures to reduce auditory hypersensitivities and to improve the ability to listen and to attend to human speech. Dr. Porges speaks throughout the world about his Polyvagal Theory and its applications to typical and clinical populations.

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Pat Ogden, Ph.D.

creator and pioneer of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, clinician, author, consultant, and international speaker

Pat Ogden, Ph.D.Pat Ogden, Ph.D., is the founder and director of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, an internationally recognized school that specializes in training psychotherapists in somatic/cognitive approaches for the treatment of trauma, developmental, and attachment issues. Dr. Ogden is trained in a wide variety of somatic and psychotherapeutic approaches and has worked with a diversity of populations, including prison inmates, psychiatric inpatients and survivors of trauma. As a pioneer in somatic psychotherapy and the treatment of trauma, she has 34 years experience working with individuals and groups. She is the first author of the groundbreaking book, Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy.

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Diana Fosha, Ph.D.

creator and pioneer of Accelerated Experiential-Dynamic Psychotherapy, clinician, and author

Diana Fosha, Ph.D.Diana Fosha, Ph.D. is the innovator of AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy). Her work has centered around transformational processes in experiential psychotherapy and their connection to the discoveries of neuroscience, leading her to develop the methods of dyadic affect regulation and metaprocessing that are embodied in AEDP. The author of numerous articles and chapters on transformation and trauma, she is also the author of The Transforming Power of Affect: A Model for Accelerated Change (Basic Books, 2000), and the editor, with Dan Siegel and Marion Solomon, of The Healing Power of Emotion: Affective Neuroscience, Development, & Clinical Practice (Norton, 2009). She teaches, supervises, and is in private practice in her beloved New York City.

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Diane Ackerman

poet, essayist, naturalist, and highly acclaimed author

Diane AckermanDiane Ackerman shares her sense of wonder and skills as a researcher, creating absorbing and lyrical journeys into the natural world. An internationally renowned and award winning author, her acclaimed nonfiction works include A Natural History of the Senses; An Alchemy of Mind; Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden; The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story; and Deep Play. Whether through her prose, poetry, or children's books, she embodies mindful awareness, deep compassion, and delighted respect for our interdependence with nature, and invites the same in her readers.

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Carl D. Marci, M.D., M.A.

psychiatrist, researcher, and Harvard professor

Carl D. Marci, M.D., M.A.Dr. Carl Marci is an innovative, award-winning researcher and scholar whose overall research goal is to quantify the relationship between physiologic measures, emotions and social interaction in a variety of settings to help improve our understanding of empathy, learning, and human inter-relatedness.

His groundbreaking research on psychotherapy involves the use of innovative platforms for recording psychophysiology combined with voice features; behavioral measures; and psychosocial measures of social-emotional processes, empathy and alliance during actual sessions. Dr. Marci is the Director of Social Neuroscience for the Psychotherapy Research Program and a psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital, and serves on the faculty at Harvard Medical School.

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Eugene V. Beresin, M.D., M.A.

Harvard professor and innovative leader in medical education

Eugene V. Beresin, M.D., M.A.Eugene V. Beresin, M.D. is an internationally known psychiatry educator and clinician, and the Director of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Training Program at the Massachusetts General Hospital/McLean Hospital consolidated residency training program. He is the director the patient-doctor program that introduces reflective practice to medical students just setting out on their journey toward becoming healers. Dr. Beresin has been a production and content consultant to HBO for several of its children's productions (including the Emmy-winning programs "Classical Baby," "Through a Child's Eyes: September 11, 2001" and "Goodnight Moon and Other Sleepytime Tales"), as well as to prime-time commercial television programs such as "E.R.," "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" and "Family Law." He is the editor of the media column in Academic Psychiatry, and Associate Editor for Ten Year Reviews of Research for the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

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Patty Wipfler

child/parent advocate and founder of Hand in Hand

Patty WipflerPatty Wipfler is the mother of two sons, and the Founder and Director of Hand in Hand, a nonprofit organization serving parents and professionals working with parents and children. She has written two curricula for parents, "Building Emotional Understanding" and "Tantrum Training," written booklets that have sold over 600,000 copies in ten languages, and trains parents and professionals in Parenting by Connection, an approach based on her 35 years of work with parents and children in the US and 22 other countries. Over 60 of her articles and audio podcasts are available at www.handinhandparenting.org.

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James Finley, Ph.D.

clinician, author, renowned retreat-leader, and Merton scholar

James Finley, Ph.D.James Finley lived as a monk at the cloistered Trappist monastery of the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky, where he studied under the Christian monk and author Thomas Merton. He leads silent, contemplation focused retreats throughout the United States and in Canada and Europe. He is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Santa Monica, California, and is presently writing a book that presents a contemplative approach to the role compassion plays in the healing of trauma and all forms of suffering.

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John O'Donohue, Ph.D. (in memoriam)

author, poet and philosopher

John O'Donohue, Ph.D.In Memoriam

Poet, philosopher, scholar, and spiritually awake human being, John O'Donohue passed away peacefully and unexpectedly in his sleep on January 3, 2008. After retiring from the priesthood in 2000, John spent years as a full-time writer, an international speaker and advocate for social justice, and an inspiration to many. His presence on the advisory board of GAINS kept us grounded in the beauty of this world, while his strong and tender spirituality gave us certainty of realms unseen. We offer his words as a reminder of his teachings.

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