Rebecca Jorgenson, PhD

Rebecca Jorgensen, Ph.D. is a Certified Trainer of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFT), and one of the original International Centre for Excellence in EFT (ICEEFT) Certified Trainers. She is also an ICEEFT Certified Supervisor for EFT with Couples, Individuals and Families as well as an AAMFT Supervisor. Rebecca completed her training with Dr. Johnson, and had the good fortune of training with Sue regularly until the month preceding her death in 2024. 

Dr. Jorgensen holds a Faculty position at Alliant International University and is Director of the Alliant Training and Research Institute for EFT and the San Diego Center for EFT. She is a co-developer of Building A Lasting Connection® that provides products and workshops for couples and relationship educators and is co-owner of the EFT Counseling and Education Center that provides counseling and education to clients.  She developed the best selling training video EFT Step by Step with Psychotherapy.net and Emotionally Focused Therapy: A Complete Treatment endorsed by Dr. Sue Johnson. While Rebecca continues to provide training and supervision to clinicians around the globe, she also maintains a clinical practice seeing couples in an intensive therapy format.

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Rick Miller, MSW

Rick Miller, LICSW, is a psychotherapist with over 37 years of clinical experience whose career has evolved beyond practicing psychotherapy into becoming an acclaimed expert in interpersonal dynamics.

Clients and institutions he works with report tremendous satisfaction with their results as a result of his focus on the experiential aspects of day-to-day life and the enhancement of interpersonal connections. Attendees at his speaking engagements consistently rate him higher than most speakers based on his approachable style and inspiring messages.

He is also an author, business consultant, public speaker, and teacher working with individuals and groups across the globe.

He helps clients and audiences learn how to make life more fulfilling by paying particular attention to feelings and using one’s internal body experiences to achieve success. He emphasizes that everyone has every resource they need within themselves by utilizing this awareness rather than pushing it aside.
As a gay man, Rick uses a warm, relational style drawing on his own experiences to create a distinctive model for his clients emphasizing a practical, holistic approach. This paradigm gives attention to the unique ways gay men experience pain, their shared developmental challenges, and experiential opportunities to build comfort and alignment between mind and body. Not only has he written extensively on this topic, he has taught and inspired psychotherapists and medical professionals all over the world.

Rick is a pioneer in creating mind/body and hypnotic scripts for gay men, has trained medical and mental-health providers how to create and use them, and wrote the first-ever book on the topic.

Rick has brought this same model of enhancing richness in interpersonal interactions to the nonprofit organization he founded and of which he is executive director, Gay Sons and Mothers, educating groups, businesses, and individuals about the unique and powerful influence mothers have on their gay sons.

He’s also founded a series for clinicians, Secrets of the Masters, in which he interviews noted authorities in informal settings.

For information on Rick Miller visit rickmiller.biz!

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Lilian Borges, MA, LPC

Lilian Borges, LPC, is an experienced therapist, teacher, presenter, and
podcaster who has treated individuals and couples for more than thirty years.
Being binational herself, she can understand multicultural issues naturally, and
perform and teach psychotherapy in Portuguese, Spanish, and English.

She’s an expert in Ericksonian Hypnosis, which she teaches both nationally and internationally and uses with individuals and couples to become and live their higher selves, and she’s trained professionals in hypnosis around the world for more than two decades. Lilian is part of the Milton Erickson Foundation Intensive Hypnosis Training faculty since 2001 where she trains other mental health professionals in Ericksonian Hypnosis.

She is Certified PACT therapist, and uses her dynamic, experiential, and hypnotic work with couples.

She currently has a private practice in Arizona, where she uses an array of techniques to help her patients with anxiety, depression, relationship issues, pain management, weight management, smoking cessation, etc.

She is co-host (with Rick Miller, LICSW) of the popular podcast Modern Couples.

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Terry Real, LICSW

Terry has been a practicing family therapist for more than thirty years, and his
work has been featured on NBC Nightly News, Today, Good Morning America,
the CBS Early Show and Oprah, as well as in The New York Times, Psychology
Today, Esquire, and numerous academic publications.
His most recent book Us: Getting Past You & Me to Build a More Loving
Relationship is a New York Times Bestseller. In 2007 his first book I Don’t Want
to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression quickly
became a National Bestseller.
Terry founded the Relational Life Institute (RLI), which is dedicated to teaching
the general public how to live relational lives and to teaching mental health
professionals the practice of Relational Life Therapy. RLI uses Terry’s work to
advance the concept of “Relational Living” to help people address relational and
psychological health in three critical relationship areas: parenting, coupling, and
workforce effectiveness. The institute offers workshops for couples and
professional trainings around the country as well as support services, books, CD’s
and other products.

For more information on his work, please visit his website, www.terryreal.com.

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Ari Tuckman, PsD

Ari Tuckman, PsyD is a psychologist, certified sex therapist, and ADHD expert. He is a popular and dynamic presenter who routinely earns excellent reviews for his ability to make complex concepts understandable and useful. He has given more than 450 presentations, across America and in nine other countries. He is the author of four books on adult ADHD, including his most recent book, ADHD After Dark: Better Sex Life, Better Relationship.

For information on Ari Tuckman visit adultADHDbook.com!

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Tammy Nelson, PhD

Tammy Nelson, PhD, is a renowned expert in the field of sex and couples therapy. She is a TEDx speaker, the host of the podcast The Trouble with Sex, and the author of six books, including Getting the Sex You Want and Open Monogamy: A Guide to Co-Creating Your Ideal Relationship Agreement. She is a Board Certified Clinical Sexologist, a Certified Sex and Couples Therapist, and AASECT Certified Sex Therapist and Certified Imago Relationship Therapist and the founder and Executive Director of the Integrative Sex Therapy Institute. She has been featured in hundreds of press articles including in the NY Times, Washington Post, NY Times Magazine, Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, and a guest on radio, podcasts and on television in the US and around the world. She can be found at www.drtammynelson.com

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Martha Kauppi, MS, LMFT

Martha Kauppi, LMFT, is a marriage and family therapist, educator, author, speaker, and AASECT-certified sex therapist and supervisor. She has a lifelong career in health and sexuality, and is a senior trainer of the Developmental Model of Couples Therapy. Her private practice in Madison, Wisconsin, specializes in complex relational therapy, sex issues, and alternative family structures, including consensual non-monogamies. As the founding director of the Institute for Relational Intimacy, Martha offers unique trainings to help therapists all over the world become comfortable, confident, and competent working with relational intimacy challenges and sex issues. She is the author of Polyamory: A Clinical Toolkit for Therapists (and Their Clients).

For information on Martha Kauppi visit instituteforrelationalintimacy.com!

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William Doherty, PhD

Bill Doherty is a Professor in the Department of Family Social Science at the University of Minnesota where he directs The Minnesota Couples on the Brink Project and The Citizen Professional Center. Clinically, he focuses on couples on the brink of divorce, on relational ethics in the everyday lives of clients, and on political stress in relationships. Following the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, he co-founded Braver Angels, a citizen initiative bringing conservatives and liberals together to counteract political polarization and restore the fraying social fabric in American society. Braver Angels now has volunteers working in all 50 states. His latest book is The Ethical Lives of Clients: Transcending Self-Interest in Psychotherapy, published by the American Psychological Association. Among his awards is the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Family Therapy Academy.

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