Wendy T. Behary, MSW, LCSW, is the founder and director of The Cognitive Therapy Center of New Jersey and The Schema Therapy Institutes of NJ-NYC-DC. She was also the President of the International Society of Schema Therapy (ISST) from 2010-2014. She is the author of Disarming the Narcissist: Surviving and Thriving with the Self-Absorbed (New Harbinger Publications). She has been treating narcissist clients, their partners and associates, and couples experiencing relationship problems; training professionals; and supervising psychotherapists for over 20 years. She lectures internationally to professional and general audiences on schema therapy and on narcissism and relationships.
Joan M. Farrell, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and Adjunct Professor of Psychology and Research Director of the Center for Borderline Personality Disorder Treatment and Research at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. She directs the Schema Therapy Institute Midwest-Indianapolis. She has been training psychologists and psychotherapists internationally for 40 years. She developed a group model of schema therapy with Ida Shaw, and they wrote two books on this model for borderline and other personality disorders (Wiley Blackwell). Their latest book is Experiencing Schema Therapy From the Inside-Out: A Self-Practice/Self-Reflection Workbook for Therapists (Guilford Press). Visit https://www.schematherapy-training.com/.
Alexandre Vaz, PhD, is cofounder and director of training of the Sentio Counseling Center. He provides deliberate practice workshops and clinical training and supervision around the world. Dr. Vaz is the author/coeditor of many books on deliberate practice and psychotherapy training and two book series: The Essentials of Deliberate Practice (APA Books) and Advanced Therapeutics, Clinical and Interpersonal Skills (Elsevier). He has held multiple committee roles for the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration (SEPI) and the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR). Dr. Vaz is founder and host of Psychotherapy Expert Talks, an acclaimed interview series with distinguished psychotherapists and researchers.
Tony Rousmaniere, PsyD, is cofounder and executive director of the Sentio Counseling Center. He is the author/coeditor of many books on deliberate practice and psychotherapy training and two book series: The Essentials of Deliberate Practice (APA Books) and Advanced Therapeutics, Clinical and Interpersonal Skills (Elsevier). Dr. Rousmaniere is incoming president of Division 29 of the American Psychological Association. In 2017, he published the widely cited article in The Atlantic Monthly, What Your Therapist Doesn't Know. Dr. Rousmaniere supports the open-data movement and publishes clinical outcome data on his website drtonyr.com.
