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15 Annual Report

Supporting Professionals, Educating Consumers, and Connecting Individuals with Truly Effective Care Table of Contents

Contents

President’s Message...... 4 2015 Aaron T. Beck Award Winner...... 6 New Diplomates 2015...... 8 New Certified Trainer Consultants...... 22 2015 Donors...... 24 2015 ACT Board...... 25

3 President’s Message recognition of the Academy and has helped establish “professional home.” I hope that you will consider Dear Colleagues: its certification as the gold standard in cognitive maintaining your certification and renewing your On behalf of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy behavioral therapy. In April of 2016, ACT will membership at this time. This renewal will keep (ACT), I want to thank you for your continued showcase its achievements with respect to CBT your certification in good standing, allow you to support of and involvement with ACT. Collectively, training and certification to all California public continue to receive benefits that help you strengthen ACT’s members make the Academy a strong, diverse departments. Our goal: replicate your capacity as a therapist, keep you abreast of organization, which is capable of effective delivery the work we are doing in Los Angeles throughout emerging research and news in the field, keep you and dissemination of cognitive therapy to the California and across the nation. connected to ACT’s listserv and build your practice growing number of individuals who seek evidence- through referrals. Your continued membership based treatments and professionals working to ACT continues to grow and consistently have more will help ACT maintain standards of excellence deliver the highest quality care. Diplomates year over year. As I write this letter for cognitive therapists and ensure that consumers in October of 2015, ACT has certified a 100 new in every community have access to high quality, I am proud to report that ACT continues to grow, Diplomates. ACT has also receive a record number effective mental health treatment. You may renew both in terms of membership and influence in the of applications for membership, nearly double the your membership by completing and returning the field of cognitive therapy. Last year, ACT began previous record! What’s more ACT received its first attached forms to the ACT office. You may also its collaboration with the Los Angeles County applications for Diplomate status from Bahrain and renew securely online by visiting https://members. Department of Mental Health to train its many Indonesia as well as its second applications from academyofct.org/members. mental health clinicians in cognitive behavioral Indian and Iran. In addition to the growth in the therapy. So far, ACT has trained over 300 clinicians number of Diplomates, the Academy has also grown Please accept my thanks if you have already renewed in a rigorous 16-week protocol. In total, some in our granting of the Certified Trainer Consultant your membership through 2016. Please know 2,000 clinicians in community mental health will designation and in our general membership. We that you can contact me via the office at info@ undertake training in CBT and achieve a level of have established a large tent geographically, by academyofct.org or directly at jpw@mainlinefamily. proficiency in the delivery of cognitive therapy. type of license, and by type of affiliation with the com. I am always ready to listen. Academy. Although CBT has long been available in Sincerely yours, university settings and private practice, it has not This year, ACT continues the tradition of honoring been as thoroughly disseminated in community leaders in the field, and will present the 2015 Aaron mental health settings. The Los Angeles County T. Beck Award to Stefan Hofmann, Ph.D. for his represents an important example of how innovative significant and enduring contributions to cognitive partnerships can ensure that even the most behavioral therapy. underserved populations receive the benefit of state-of-the art psychotherapeutic treatment. This I know how important and meaningful an John Williams project has done much to enhance the brand affiliation with the Academy is for most members. Many consider the Academy their

4 5 S 2015 Aaron T. Beck Award Winner t subgroups? e Stefan G. Hofmann, PhD f is a professor in the clinical program, where he His research focuses on the mechanism of treatment a directs the Social Program at the Center for change, translating discoveries from neuroscience n Anxiety and Related Disorders. His main research into clinical applications, emotions, and cultural questions include the following: expressions of psychopathology. He is president H of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive o . Why are psychological treatments, such as Therapies, and the International Association for f cognitive-behavioral therapy, effective for Cognitive Psychotherapy. He is also editor in chief m anxiety disorders? What is the mechanism of Cognitive Therapy and Research and is Associate a of treatment change, and what are the active Editor of Journal of Consulting and Clinical ingredients? How can these treatments be Psychology. Of his most recent books includes An n improved further? Introduction to Modern CBT. n . How can we translate knowledge from basic neuroscience into clinical techniques to en- hance therapies for anxiety disorders? . What are the culture-specific expressions of mental disorders, and how can psychological treatments be made more culturally sensitive in order to enhance their efficacy, dissemina- tion, and acceptability? . What are the effects of emotion regulation strategies on anxiety and subjective well-be- ing? . What is the psychopathology of Social Anxiety Disorder? Are there any meaningful

6 7 y name is Dr. Maria Alice Fontes. I am Dec 25, 1999; 1421-6. Therapy (CBT) as an efficient, practicable, and New Diplomates the Director of Clínica Plenamente, a evidenced-based method to treat psychological multi-disciplined mental health practice In 2000, while still working at Einstein, I disorders. The benefits were obvious, with higher Min São Paulo, Brazil www.plenamente.com. coordinated the creation of a website focusing on rates of success, shorter treatment times, and higher br. We are a team of 10 professionals attending drug and alcohol abuse (http://apps.einstein.br/ levels of patient satisfaction. patients of all ages. We offer neuropsychological alcooledrogas/novosite/index.htm). This training evaluations, psychological diagnosis, and treatments also sparked my initial interest in neuropsychology, In 2013, I decided to take my CBT training to the in the area of ​​mental health, cognitive behavioral and I began specialization in this subject. next level, enrolling for the first time in the Beck psychotherapy, psychiatric care, and associated Institute for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. They In 2001, as demand from my private practice services for learning disorders and development. continue to be a source of advanced learning, and expanded, I left the hospital to dedicate myself I have consulted Dr. Beck’s team repeatedly in My career started in 1991 when I graduated from full time to . I began to the resolution of difficult cases. I attend the Beck the Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC). My believe that psychodynamic therapy no longer Institute annually to expand my technical expertise. training emphasized clinical psychology with a attended the demand for faster and more accurate The more practicable and direct approach of CBT psychodynamic approach. From the beginning, diagnoses, effective treatments, and measurable continues to produce quicker and more lasting I was interested in the writings of Freud, and results. As my practice grew, I became increasingly results as well as higher levels of satisfaction for my concentrated my approach on the diagnosis of intrigued by neuropsychology, the effects of patients and my own team of professionals. my patient’s subjective structures. I also followed drugs and psychiatric diseases on the brain, the teachings of Lacan and my practice included neuropsychological evaluations, and the possibilities In my effort to pursue continuing education in the analysis of the speech, Freudian slips, and of intervention with cognitive rehabilitation. CBT for myself and team, I strived to become unconscious formations. certified by the Academy of Cognitive Therapy. I In 2005, oriented by a group of renowned Brazilian thoroughly enjoyed the certification process and From 1991 to 1996, I specialized in Health neuroscientists, I entered doctorate studies at grew significantly through the process. Psychology at the Heart Institute (INCOR) of the UNIFESP, researching the effects of cannabis on the University of São Paulo (FMUSP). We attended neuropsychological functioning of the brain. My Once certified, I began to benefit from one of Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patients as well as thesis was entitled “Cognitive Impairments due the largest aid networks in the field. It is quite a their families. In 1997, I was hired as the first to Chronic Cannabis Use”. My team managed to powerful sensation to know that this extensive psychologist for ICU patients at the Albert Einstein publish four scientific papers, including one in the network of professionals worldwide is at my Israeli Hospital in São Paulo. This experience British Journal of Psychiatry. This specific paper immediate disposure, not to mention the prestige motivated me to pursue my Master’s Degree at the showed how early onset of heavy cannabis use and respect that my practice has gained from my Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), where had an impact on executive functioning later in certification. I studied stressors in the ICU and their impact on life. “Cannabis use before age 15 and subsequent I would like to thank the Academy of Cognitive patients, families, and medical staff. I authored executive functioning”. Br J Psychiatry. 2011 Jun; 198 Maria Alice Fontes, PhD Therapy for its excellent, ongoing support of mental two papers on the matter: “Stressors in ICU: patient (6): 442-7. We received a nomination for a national health professionals worldwide, and I highly evaluation”, Intensive Care Med, Dec 23, 1997; 1282- health award for this work. recommend certification to all my colleagues. 5, and “Stressors in ICU: perception of the patient, In 2007, I began to investigate Cognitive Behavioral relatives, and health care team”, Intensive Care Med,

8 9 have started my clinical practice as an occupational Cognitive Therapy as follows, “……Some therapists New Diplomates therapist in mental health service in Hong Kong, may identify themselves as cognitive therapists even if a metropolitan in Asia since 1990. I have worked Ibasically in two major mental hospitals with a wide they have not received thorough training in cognitive spectrum of services, from adult to elderly and from therapy, or even if they only use selected elements of in-patients to ambulatory care in the community. cognitive therapy in their practices without actually Since 1994, I have been working in Kwai Chung “practicing” cognitive therapy…..” In the past, I worked Hospital, until now. Throughout the years, I got my Advanced Diploma in Administrative Management with my altruistic attitude. My intention was to help in 1997 and Post-graduate Diploma in Epidemiology people going through crisis once in their life but not and Biostatistics in 2001. I was conferred with my to seek academic qualification or certification. Yet, as Master Degree in Science (Vocational Rehabilitation) in 2003. I worked with more and more clients, I think I should work systematically and receive proper training in In my clinical practice for over 25 years, I came across Cognitive Therapy. I started to learn CBT more than people with psychiatric disabilities with diversified clinical diagnoses. We, focusing on the core areas a decade ago. Being enriched with clinical of concern as occupational therapists, often applied experience, this year, I eventually sought all different kinds of psychological intervention the process of certification and got and therapeutic techniques, like CBT, MI, solution- focused brief therapy and etc. No matter what certified as a Diplomat in Cognitive diagnosis people are labelled, I often tried to seek Therapy by the Academy of Cognitive an effective way to help them walk through their Therapy which is the only certifying Hon-wai Chu, MSc recovery journey. I found CBT was one of those organization specifically for cognitive psychological interventions coming with concrete and sound evidence to prove its effectiveness. From therapists that actually evaluates my personal experience, it’s widely applied to people applicants’ knowledge and ability before with mood problems, personality problems, anxiety, granting certification. This year ACT certified and so on. I witnessed the impact of CBT on guiding their changes in their problems. It was amazing to Learning process never ends. As a Certified Diplomat, 120 Diplomates. see how they responded to the cognitive behavioral techniques. I’ll work hard and take every opportunity to learn in the application process of Cognitive Therapy. With a Like most people working in the mental health background of training on evidence-based practice, service around us, many clinicians claim they apply and practice cognitive therapy. Once upon a time, I would like to learn further through research and I read something from the website of Academy of clinical practice in systematic ways.

10 11 y motivation to pursue a career in psychodynamic (relational) focus, I developed a in New York. My clinical work and interactions New Diplomates psychology stems from a life event. strong interest in CBT after taking an introductory with distinguished CBT clinicians at AICT Growing up in Germany, I participated class in my first year. Realizing that CBT is more (including ACT diplomates and fellows) allow Min language exchange programs that stimulated a compatible with my research interests as well me to keep honing my skills as a CBT therapist desire to become an international affairs journalist. as personal preference for a collaborative, goal- and have been integral to my teaching at Pace However, two years into my undergraduate studies oriented and structured approach in psychotherapy, University. Specifically, I have developed a new in social and political sciences at Cambridge I decided to specialize in CBT. My initial experience course on evidence-based practice for the PhD in University, I became paralyzed in a horseback riding included supervision by Dr. Bruce Hubbard, Mental Health Counseling and a CBT course for accident. Determined to refute the prognosis of Director of the Cognitive Health Group in New the MS in Counseling. Many of my students work dependency on a wheelchair, I embarked on an York during my student clinical practica at Teachers in community settings serving ethnically diverse intensive physiotherapy program taking place in College, and co-leading a manualized CBT group patients with severe psychological disorders and three different hospitals in England and Germany. for as part of an externship in the comorbid substance use disorders and/or chronic When I returned to Cambridge to complete my Bilingual Treatment Program at Bellevue Hospital. health problems. Knowing that what students learn studies, I was able to walk (with a limp) and had I subsequently completed an internship at St Luke’s in my classes has the potential to make a difference become fascinated with the mind-body relationship. Roosevelt Hospital where I conducted individual impels my efforts to provide them with a solid I wanted to study how psychological, social, and and group CBT and dialectical behavior therapy. introduction to empirically supported treatments. biological factors interact in resilience. Why do During a postdoctoral fellowship at Mount Sinai some people give up in the face of adversity while Hospital, I provided CBT in the Mood and Anxiety I find the information and materials available others bounce back and move on with their lives? Disorders research program and conducted the through the ACT website tremendously helpful in A special issue on positive psychology published exposure therapy component of a clinical trial this endeavor and have incorporated several into in the American Psychologist in 2000 provided testing a psychopharmacological treatment of PTSD. my courses. For example, a core assignment in my inspiration on how this question might be examined I continued working with PTSD patients during my CBT classes is writing a history, case formulation, scientifically. I proceeded to gain experience clinical and research activities at New York State and treatment plan based on the format required for in health psychology by working as a research Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI), taught CBT labs at the ACT credentialing process. I also distribute the assistant for Dr. Elissa Epel at the University of Yeshiva University, and provided CBT supervision at CTRS in class and have students identify areas for California, San Francisco, followed by a PhD in NYSPI, Yeshiva University and Columbia University. current improvement and future training. In short, I clinical psychology at Teachers College, Columbia am delighted to be a Diplomat and certified member University. Under the mentorship of Dr. George I currently work as an assistant professor at Pace of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy. I greatly value Bonanno, I examined individual differences and University in the Department of Psychology the platform for communication with experienced psychosocial processes that help explain variability (Pleasantville campus) where I continue to pursue clinicians and researchers across the world that in response to adversity. This research included the my research program in emotion regulation and ACT provides as well as its unifying function in Maren Westphal, PhD experimental study of emotion regulation, testing resilience to adversity. My most recent work has promoting training and upholding standards in CBT adaptive benefits of flexibility in expressing and examined the role of mindfulness as a buffer against across different professional groups. My goal as a suppressing emotions. stress in health care professionals. I also serve as a diplomate of the American Academy of Cognitive voluntary faculty in the Department of Psychiatry Therapy is to recruit new ACT members from the Although the doctoral program in clinical at Columbia University and see patients at the increasing population of licensed mental health psychology at Columbia University has a American Institute of Cognitive Therapy (AICT) counselors.

12 13 specialist) does their job. Consequently, there is a problems, as a core ingredient of school reform. New Diplomates general lack of supervision, oversight and profes- sional development for School Social Workers. In the fall of 2014 an opportunity arose to develop orking as a Social Worker in the fast- and teach a CBT fundamentals course for Simmons paced environment of an exurban public During my pursuit of relevant professional learning College’s online School of Social Work. There is high school demands the ability to opportunities, I attended Carol Singer’s workshop, nothing like having to teach a subject that com- Wrespond to a huge variety of situations. While this CBT for children and adolescents, in 2012. Finally, mands you to learn it deeply and with fidelity. We makes for an exciting place to work, you sacrifice I had discovered a pathway to uncovering why launched CBT fundamentals in May of 2015, reach- experiential depth for breadth, becoming a ‘jack and how my student’s emotional health was the ing MSW students across the country as they pursue of all trades and a master of none’. Such had been way it was, and a clear methodology towards an education grounded in evidence-based practice. the case with me before I began to explore CBT understanding the specific cognitive, emotional and discover its power to deliver deep and lasting and behavioral processes at work within them. I I am now teaching CBT to emerging social workers, psychological benefits. began to tentatively try out some of the techniques. and I can see that my efforts have come full circle. Early results were good. I became encouraged and Each student that learns CBT ends their clinical During my time in social work school in the early motivated to learn more. I pursued additional training better equipped and prepared to serve 2000’s, there simply was no discrete training in CBT. workshops, and completed the CBT certification others well. Moreover, my students are telling their The best my program had to offer was an overview course taught by Dan Beck at Boston University. own supervisors and colleagues about what they of several therapeutic techniques. I left feeling Two years later I was transformed as a clinician. are learning, piquing their interest and at least in unprepared and unsure, and it was difficult to I finally had the things I had been searching for one case leading to an agency-wide professional reconcile this feeling with my professional identity. my entire career: a theoretical underpinning to development seminar on CBT. understanding human psychological distress, I developed a passion for working with young and powerful tools and strategies to alleviate that I am grateful to Dan Beck and Carol Singer for people in school systems, especially students with distress. their instruction and inspiration in learning challenging behaviors that were often underserved and practicing CBT technique. Through Dan’s and over-disciplined by their schools. It is a role Once learned, I began to see how CBT is applicable encouragement in particular, I made the choice to I am proud to have maintained throughout my to all members of even a very complicated system apply for acceptance into the Academy of Cognitive career thus far. As one of the few staff members such as a school. Parents, Educators and Students Therapy. It is, at the same time, a capstone on with a mental health background, I became the each carry within them their own schemas, my last several years of effort, a mandate to ‘go-to’ person for consultation and intervention for distortions and rigid patterns of thinking that are practice at the highest level, and an emblem a community of over 2000 students, faculty and amenable to CBT treatment. Over the past few of competence and professional integrity. families. years I have been able to interject CBT theory into I am proud to be a member of the parent talks, classroom demonstrations and faculty Academy and to be considered part of Schools are complicated systems to work within. collaboration projects in a way that helps illuminate this community of skilled clinicians. Francis Kuehn, LICSW There are a multitude of disciplines and specialties destructive thought patterns and enlighten overseen by a group of hardworking professional individuals and groups. I see this development of educator-leaders who don’t necessarily know the meta-awareness, leading to the ability to engage intricacies of how a social worker (or any other in reflection and craft a considered response to

14 15 y interest in psychology stemmed from my readings. passion has evolved from a population-specific goal New Diplomates love for the veteran population, and my to providing quality CBT services to a wide range of desire to give back to a community who Throughout my training, I was a student member patient populations and diagnoses. Mhas given so much themselves. This drive spurred of ACT, and I knew that upon licensure, becoming my application to graduate school, where I was certified was a major goal of mine. Seeing the I also find it extremely important to spread the fortunate to receive an excellent education from the thought-provoking discussions on the listserv, ripe knowledge of CBT in the community, both within California School of Professional Psychology in San with quality providers and reliable information, psychology and to allied professions. As such, I Francisco. I sought training experiences and other made me eager to become a part of this community. regularly participate in speaking engagements opportunities which would allow me access to the I worked hard to ensure my work was of the where I teach others about CBT and its applications veteran population, which therein gave me a great quality that would meet ACT standards. Becoming to various populations. I enjoy speaking with deal of exposure to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy certified by the Academy is easily one of the primary physicians to provide education about the ways in (CBT) and the importance of evidence-based highlights of my professional career thus far. which CBT may assist their patients with a wide practice. I recognized very quickly that CBT was variety of problems. I have also become actively I feel so fortunate to have trained amongst clinicians the orientation that most resonated with me. Not involved in my local psychological association, the who I would confidently say are some of the best only was it research-based and practical, but it fit Orange County Psychological Association (OCPA). CBT practitioners in Orange County. Not only do well with the way I personally thought about things. Effective January 2016, I will fulfill the position we engage in weekly case consultation, but on at With each training experience, including my time of President of OCPA, which is another major least a monthly basis, if not more often, experts in the PTSD clinic at the San Francisco VA and in highlight of my professional development and career in the area are brought into the practices. This my APA-accredited internship at Pacific Clinics, I thus far. I am eager to provide leadership and bring allows us to continue to train and hone our CBT refined my CBT skills and interest. a CBT perspective to the organization. skills. I am grateful to have participated in intimate However, my greatest training and training settings with Dr. Christine Padesky for case I am proud to call myself a CBT specialist, which I development in CBT came through my consultation, Dr. Jon Grayson for OCD, and Dr. feel confident in doing upon receiving my Academy postdoctoral training and beyond. I Paul DePompo for PCIT, to name a few. certification. I am humbled to be associated with was happily offered an opportunity others who are just as committed to providing high- Taking from the strong practices of my colleagues to work as a psychological assistant quality, evidence-based work. I look forward to what Bridgette Atallah, PsyD in my professional circles, I branched out into my in a thriving CBT practice under Dr. the future holds for CBT and being an integral part own private practice almost immediately upon Kathryn Manetta (also a recent ACT of that movement. being licensed in February 2014. While I remain Diplomate). I was able to hone my CBT connected to the two practices which gave me skills and engage in practical applications my start, I have built a successful CBT private of CBT with my patients in her practice. I practice of my own. I am currently training my own could not get enough of CBT, and remember psychological assistant to excel in CBT and promote reading just about every book recommended to this modality throughout our region. I also provide me in order to better serve my patients. Dr. Manetta evaluations for a VA-contracted organization, soon connected me to Dr. Erik Abell, also ACT- keeping me connected to my original passion for certified, who trained me via supervision, audio this field. However, it is clear to me that my true trainings from Dr. Christine Padesky, and copious

16 17 Aaron Ellington, PhD Carlos Gonzalez, LCSW Wid Kattan, MBBS New Diplomates Akron, OH Long Beach, CA Montreal, QC Soner Erol Lindsay Greene, PhD Rebecca Kraatz, PhD Adana, Turkey New York, NY Portland, TX Please join me in congratualting all new Diplomates! Lucy Faulconbridge, PhD Silvia Guerra, LMFT Jeffrey Krassner, MSW Wayne, PA La Verne, CA New York, NY

N S ! Gladys Aguilar, LCSW Helena Bloomingdale, LICSW Tina Chung, LCSW Lindsey Fitch Torres, LCSW Nicole Gutman, MSW Francis Kuehn, LICSW Tarzana, CA Brookline, MA Hawthorne, CA Los Angeles, CA Los Angeles, CA Newton, MA O Naser Ahmadi, MD,PhD Francine Broder, PsyD Michael Colton, LMFT Maria Alice Fontes, PhD Ragaa Hanna Debie Kyles, LCSW Bakersfield, CA Bala Cynwyd, PA Oxnard, CA Sao Paulo, Brazil West Covina, CA Sugar Land, TX

T I Mehmet Ak Elizabeth Brokamp, MA, EDM, LPC Steven Cospewicz, LCSW Catherine Forbes, PhD Lorna Hawley, LCSW Dena Lampert, LCSW Konya, Turkey Alexandria, VA Los Angeles, CA Los Angeles, CA Simi Valley, CA Rockville Centre, NY A Natalie Anderson, LMFT Lindsay Brooks, LMFT Thomas D’Alessandro, MSW Sarah French, LCSW Margo Hendrickson, DSW, LCSW, Kate Lazier, MD Long Beach, CA Long Beach, CA Middleton, MA Houston, TX CCDPD Toronto, ON West Chester, PA Bridgette Atallah, PsyD Danielle Carrillo, LMFT Manik Dande, Kaivalya Funnye, LMFT Hee Seung Lee, LCSW San Clemente, CA Long Beach, CA Pune, India Rancho Cucamonga, CA Anaissa Ibrahimi, LMFT Gardena, CA T U L Long Beach, CA Esat Fahri Aydin, MD Cynthia Cassil, LCSW Elena Dasgupta-Tsinikas, LCSW Lizbeth Gaona Adele Leinbach, MSSW A Erzurum, Turkey Los Angeles, CA Cerritos, CA Torrance, CA Yoko Ikeda, LMFT San Antonio, TX Beverly Hills, CA Emily Becker-Weidman, PhD Abby Chappell, LCSW George Davidson, LCSW Krystal Smith, LMFT Joey Shuk Yan LEUNG, New York, NY Los Angeles, CA Hawthorne, CA San Dimas, CA Alison Iong-Szeto, PhD MRCPsych, FHKCPsych

G R Covina, CA Hong Kong Karla Bennett, LCSW Susan Che, LCSW Thomas Devine, MEd, LPC Ashleigh Golden, PsyD Los Angeles, CA Long Beach, CA Oklahoma City, OK St. Louis, MO Jeremy Jinkerson, MS Anna Lock, PsyD N Memphis, TN Beverly Hills, CA April Bickoff, PsyD Hon Wai Chu, MSc Hikmet Doymus, BEd Lee Gomberg, PhD

O Springfield, NJ Hong Kong Ankara, Turkey Long Beach, CA Heather Johnson, LMFT Elizabeth Lockhart, LMFT Ventura, CA Los Angeles, CA Nelson Gomez, PhD

C Michelle Bilotta-Smith, PsyD Hsiao-Ching Chu, PsyD Katie Duffin, LCSW Los Angeles, CA Avon, CT Ventura, CA US Diamond Bar, CA Tiffany Kallhovd, LCSW Faviola Lopez, MSW New York, NY Whittier, CA

18 19 New Diplomates Norma Lopez, LCSW Virna Merino, PhD Kim Nguyen Pierce, PhD Veronica Siffert, MSW Cheung Wing Yip, MsN Oxnard, CA Oxnard, CA Gardena, CA Houston, TX Hong Kong Elizabeth Macedo, LMFT Diana Mesrobian, LCSW Carrie Powell, MEd, RSW Matthew Sloan, MD Pei-Ying Wu, MFT Redwood City, CA Hattiesburg, MS Elliot Lake, ON Montreal, QC Rancho Cucamonga, CA Amy Maiman, LCSW Robin Mindnich, LCSW Kimberly Prendergrast, LMFT Steven Sohnle, PsyD Esra Yancar Demir Thousand Oaks, CA Harbor City, CA Oxnard, CA New Brunswick, NJ Ordu, Turkey Alyssa Mancao, LCSW Sarah Monson, LMFT Sandra Quezada, MSW Jaime Stanley, MSc Robert Yeilding, PsyD Van Nuys, CA Long Beach, CA Sherman Oaks, CA Halifax, NS Newport Beach, CA Kathryn Manetta, PhD Nancy Moran, LCSW Mark Reader, PhD Jennifer Steinberg, PhD Irem Yelken, MA Long Beach, CA Springfield, NJ Baltimore, MD White Plains, NY Istanbul, Turkey Brandy Manzano, LCSW Esmeralda Murga, LMFT Demitri Richmond, LCSW Lim-Chi Tsao, BSc(OT); MSocSc Naoki Yoshinaga, RN, PhD Ventura, CA Los Angeles, CA Los Angeles, CA Hong Kong Miyazaki, Japan Shauneet Marduk, LCSW Leonard Myers, DMin Sally Riggs, DClinPsy Nese Ulusan Santa Clarita, CA Wallaceburg, ON Brooklyn, NY Istanbul, Turkey Brandon Markel, PsyD Sonia Nikolova, MsN, ARNP Kathy Rojas, LCSW Asiye Usta Milwaukee, WI Seattle, WA Los Angeles, CA Istanbul, Turkey Patrick Martin, LCSW Serhat Onculer Erica Russell, MA, LPCC, LMFT John Vail, LMFT Arcadia, CA Ankara, Turkey Saratoga, CA Long Beach, CA Lyndsay McEwen, MSc Caitlyn Oscarson, MS Yasir Safak, MD Lesly Van Sloten, LMFT Kilmarnock, Great Britain Saratoga, CA Ankara, Turkey Los Angeles, CA Brenda Melgoza, LMFT Jane Park, LMFT Sohila Sakuei, LMFT Lizzie West, PhD, LPC San Dimas, CA Los Angeles, CA Sherman Oaks, CA Houston, TX Eva Sofia Mendoza, LCSW Sue Jong Park, LCSW Peter Schreiner, LCSW Maren Westphal, PhD Long Beach, CA Los Angeles, CA Ojai, CA New York, NY

20 21 New Certified CBT Trainer Consultants

Please join me in congratulating ACT’s newest certified trainer consultants!

ACT Certified CBT Trainer Consultants meet in Chicago to discuss the Los Angeles County Sue Schonberg, PhD, ABPP Summit, NJ Individual CBT Training Protocol. This initiative has so far trained 1,000 public mental health clinicians in cognitive behavioral therapy. Roberto Mainieri, PhD Panama

Jesus Salas, PsyD Allentown, PA

22 23 2015 Donors 2015 Board of Directors Yumi Nakano, MD Erik Abell, PhD Lisa Napolitano, PhD, JD Laird Bridgman, PsyD, CEAP John P. Williams, MD Lata McGinn, PhD Thomas Ollendick, PhD Gertrude Brooks Joel Pava, PhD President Board Member at Large Young Hee Choi, MD, PhD Raechel Pefanis, MSW Noah Clyman, LCSW Patricia Prescott, PhD Noah Clyman, LCSW Lynn McFarr, PhD Arabelle Rowe, MSW R. Trent Codd, III, Ed.S., LPC Eric Crowther, MSW Jesus Salas, PsyD President-Elect Keith Dobson, PhD Board Member at Large Constance Salhany, PhD Elaine Elliott-Moskwa, PhD Sue Schonberg, PhD, ABPP Madonna Fasula, MSN Christopher Tammariello, LCSW Dennis Greenberger, PhD Marci Fox, PhD Elaine S. Eliott-Moskwa, PhD Michella Velasquez, MA Past-President Jon Anton Haugum Scott Waltman, PsyD Board Member at Large Steven Hollon, PhD Cynthia Winski, MSW Ikar Kalogjera, MD Jesse Wright, MD, PhD Leslie Sokol, PhD Ellen Tobey Klass, PhD Secretary Bradford Richards, PhD, ABPP James Korman, PsyD Board Member at Large Maria Kostakos, MA Virginia Lafond, MSW Allen Miller, PhD, MBA Robert Leahy, PhD Treasurer Liane Browne, Esq Souad Maadarani, MSW Peter Manzo, MSW, LICSW, CEAP Lay Board Member at Large Daniel Mattila, MDiv, LCSW-R Thank you for Lata McGinn, PhD Suzanne McKann, PhD, MEd, LCPC your support Thank you James Korman, PsyD for your many years of Shelley Milestone, PhD Allen Miller, PhD service on the ACT Board of Directors. Dixon Mitchell, EdD and generosity.

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