Michael Miller

Michael M Miller, MD, is a board-certified general and addiction psychiatrist and is board-certified in Addiction Medicine by the American Board of Preventive Medicine. He is a skilled individual, family and group psychotherapist along with being expert in the medication management of addiction and co-occurring psychiatric disorders, treating patients of all ages. He also works an independent consultant to a wide range of non-profit, governmental, and health care clients, serves as an expert witness, and is widely respected as a teacher. Dr. Miller was a clinician and educator specializing in addiciton medicine in Wisconsin for 40 years before relocating to California. He now serves as an addiction psychiatrist at the Jerry L Pettis VA Medical Center in Loma Linda, California, where he is active in clinical teaching in the addiction medicine fellowship program of Loma Linda University. He is a full professor in the medical schools at LLU and UC-Riverside, teaching residents from varoius specialties along with medical students. Dr. Miller is past president of the American Society of Addiction (ASAM), has served as co-author and editor of the ASAM Criteria, and led the development of the 2011 ASAM Definition of Addiction. He was a founding board member of both the American Board of Addiction Medicine (ABAM) and the American College of Academic Addiction Medicine (ACAAM). He has been a leader in organized medicine and public health, including serving over 25 years in the AMA House of Delegates and as chair of the AMA Council on Science and Public Health

Michael M Miller, MD, is a board-certified general and addiction psychiatrist and is board-certified in Addiction Medicine by the American Board of Preventive Medicine. He is a skilled individual, family and group psychotherapist along with being expert in the medication management of addiction and co-occurring psychiatric disorders, treating patients of all ages. He also works an independent consultant to a wide range of non-profit, governmental, and health care clients, serves as an expert witness, and is widely respected as a teacher. Dr. Miller was a clinician and educator specializing in addiciton medicine in Wisconsin for 40 years before relocating to California. He now serves as an addiction psychiatrist at the Jerry L Pettis VA Medical Center in Loma Linda, California, where he is active in clinical teaching in the addiction medicine fellowship program of Loma Linda University. He is a full professor in the medical schools at LLU and UC-Riverside, teaching residents from varoius specialties along with medical students. Dr. Miller is past president of the American Society of Addiction (ASAM), has served as co-author and editor of the ASAM Criteria, and led the development of the 2011 ASAM Definition of Addiction. He was a founding board member of both the American Board of Addiction Medicine (ABAM) and the American College of Academic Addiction Medicine (ACAAM). He has been a leader in organized medicine and public health, including serving over 25 years in the AMA House of Delegates and as chair of the AMA Council on Science and Public Health

Michael D. Yapko, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist residing near San Diego, California. He is internationally recognized for his innovative work in applying clinical hypnosis in outcome-focused strategic psychotherapy, especially in the active, non-pharmacological treatment of depression. He has been invited to present his innovative ideas and methods to colleagues in more than 30 countries across six continents, as well as throughout the United States. He is a critic of the medical model of depression and instead advocates for a social perspective, suggesting the problem is less about neurochemistry and more about circumstances and perspectives in how you manage them. His highly practical YouTube lecture on How to Recover from Depression has been viewed more than 5.2 million times.

Dr. Yapko is the author of 16 books, including the new 6th edition of his classic hypnosis text Trancework, his award-winning book for professionals, Process-Oriented Hypnosis, and his popular books for a general audience, Depression is Contagious and Breaking the Patterns of Depression. His works have been translated into 10 languages. He is also the developer of the popular digital hypnotherapy mental health app called Claria in association with Mindset Health (www.mindsethealth.com). More information about Dr. Yapko is available on his website: www.yapko.com.

On the personal side, Dr. Yapko is happily married to his wife, Diane, a pediatric speech-language pathologist. Together, they enjoy hiking in the great outdoors in their spare time.

STEPHEN GILLIGAN, Ph.D., is a psychologist in Encinitas, CA. He was one of the original NLP students at UC Santa Cruz, where Milton Erickson and Gregory Bateson were his mentors. After receiving his psychology doctorate from Stanford University, he became one of the premier teachers and practitioners of Ericksonian hypnotherapy. This work evolved into his original approaches of Self-Relations and Generative Self and was further developed with Robert Dilts into Generative Coaching. In response to the unprecedented meta-crisis we are currently facing, all this work is now woven into a Creative Mind meta-structure that honors and seeks to realize the interconnection of all life—friends and enemies, nature and humans, spirit and matter.

He has taught in many different cultures and countries over the past 30 years and has published extensively. His numerous books include The Hero’s Journey: A Voyage of Self-Discovery (co-authored with Robert Dilts), the classic Therapeutic Trances, The Courage to Love, The Legacy of Erickson, Walking in Two Worlds (with D. Simon), Generative Trance: The Experience of Creative Flow, four volumes of Generative Coaching, and his ongoing six-volume series on Creative Mind.

Donald Meichenbaum, PhD in Clinical Psychology is currently the Research Director of the Melissa Institute for Violence Prevention, Miami (www.melissainstitute.org). He is one of the founders of cognitive behavior therapy and was voted one of the most influential psychotherapists of the 20th century. His latest books include Roadmap to Resilience (www.roadmaptoresilience.com) and Evolution of Cognitive Behavior Therapy: A Personal and Professional Journey.

Michael M Miller, MD, is a board-certified general and addiction psychiatrist and is board-certified in Addiction Medicine by the American Board of Preventive Medicine. He is a skilled individual, family and group psychotherapist along with being expert in the medication management of addiction and co-occurring psychiatric disorders, treating patients of all ages. He also works an independent consultant to a wide range of non-profit, governmental, and health care clients, serves as an expert witness, and is widely respected as a teacher. Dr. Miller was a clinician and educator specializing in addiciton medicine in Wisconsin for 40 years before relocating to California. He now serves as an addiction psychiatrist at the Jerry L Pettis VA Medical Center in Loma Linda, California, where he is active in clinical teaching in the addiction medicine fellowship program of Loma Linda University. He is a full professor in the medical schools at LLU and UC-Riverside, teaching residents from varoius specialties along with medical students. Dr. Miller is past president of the American Society of Addiction (ASAM), has served as co-author and editor of the ASAM Criteria, and led the development of the 2011 ASAM Definition of Addiction. He was a founding board member of both the American Board of Addiction Medicine (ABAM) and the American College of Academic Addiction Medicine (ACAAM). He has been a leader in organized medicine and public health, including serving over 25 years in the AMA House of Delegates and as chair of the AMA Council on Science and Public Health

Jean Shinoda Bolen, MD, is a Psychiatrist, Jungian analyst and an internationally known author and speaker. She is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, a former clinical professor of psychiatry at Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, University of California Medical Center and a past board member of the Ms. Foundation for Women, the International Transpersonal Association, and the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco.

She is the author of thirteen books in over one hundred foreign editions. She is a NGO Permanent Representative to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women from the Women’s World Summit Foundation (Geneva), also represents Pathways To Peace, The Millionth Circle, Earthchild Institute, Women’s Perspective, and the International Public Policy Institute. She is in three acclaimed documentaries: the Academy-Award winning anti-nuclear proliferation film “Women – For America, For the World,” the Canadian Film Board’s “Goddess Remembered,” and “Femme: Women Healing the World.

Michael M Miller, MD, is a board-certified general and addiction psychiatrist and is board-certified in Addiction Medicine by the American Board of Preventive Medicine. He is a skilled individual, family and group psychotherapist along with being expert in the medication management of addiction and co-occurring psychiatric disorders, treating patients of all ages. He also works an independent consultant to a wide range of non-profit, governmental, and health care clients, serves as an expert witness, and is widely respected as a teacher. Dr. Miller was a clinician and educator specializing in addiciton medicine in Wisconsin for 40 years before relocating to California. He now serves as an addiction psychiatrist at the Jerry L Pettis VA Medical Center in Loma Linda, California, where he is active in clinical teaching in the addiction medicine fellowship program of Loma Linda University. He is a full professor in the medical schools at LLU and UC-Riverside, teaching residents from varoius specialties along with medical students. Dr. Miller is past president of the American Society of Addiction (ASAM), has served as co-author and editor of the ASAM Criteria, and led the development of the 2011 ASAM Definition of Addiction. He was a founding board member of both the American Board of Addiction Medicine (ABAM) and the American College of Academic Addiction Medicine (ACAAM). He has been a leader in organized medicine and public health, including serving over 25 years in the AMA House of Delegates and as chair of the AMA Council on Science and Public Health