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Bonnie Badenoch, PhD, LMFT, is an in-the-trenches therapist, supervisor, teacher, and author who has spent the last five years integrating the discoveries of neuroscience into the art of therapy and now enjoys sharing this information at conferences, with agencies, and in consultations with fellow therapists. She is also the co-founder of the Center for Brain-Wise Living, an Oregon-based nonprofit agency that promotes brain wisdom to foster a more awake and compassionate world. After receiving her PhD in comparative religions from the University of Oriental Studies and her MA in marriage and family therapy from Azusa Pacific University, she co-founded the Center for Hope and Healing (CHH) in Irvine, California in 1991, to serve families struggling with intergenerational legacies of abuse, neglect, and emotional chaos. She served as its senior clinical director/supervisor until 2008, taking particular joy in training and mentoring MFT interns. In 2003, she heard Daniel Siegel speak, became fascinated by the power of interpersonal neurobiology (IPNB) to enhance therapy, and was privileged to join his ongoing study group in 2004. As a result of her growing interest in IPNB, she became one of the founders of the nonprofit organization, Global Association for Interpersonal Neurobiology Studies (GAINS), a group that fosters application of IPNB in all walks of life. She is editor-in-chief of the GAINS Quarterly publication. Out of this study, combined with her 19 years of working with survivors of trauma and attachment struggles, came her book, Being a Brain-Wise Therapist: A Practical Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology, published in 2008. Therapists say that this book fills the gap between science and practice with compassion and heart. She has a gift for translating the complexities of brain science into words and examples that allow people to internalize the principles so they can use them in the counseling room.
Karin Bausenbach MD, is a developmental bBehavioral pediatrician affiliated with the Northwest Early Childhood Institute and Kaiser Permanente Northwest in Portland. She initially studied fine arts and Navajo culture as an undergraduate. In her mid 20s she became intrigued with the medical field and developed a desire to help people. She completed her registered nurse program and worked for eight years as a medical intensive care unit nurse in Oakland, California. She wanted to have a more direct role in decision making and more in depth knowledge of medicine, and decided at age 30 to become a physician. She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of California at Berkeley, medical school at Medical College of Wisconsin, and pediatric residency at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She worked as a primary care pediatrician for seven years, and developed an intense interest in pediatric development and behavior, and its neuroscientific basis. Since 2005 she has specialized in pediatric development and behavior in her clinical practice and finds this work extremely satisfying. She also over the past four years, has been teaching classes on interpersonal neurobiology and neuroscience in the Portland community at PSU, Mt Hood Community College, and Multnomah Department of Public Health.
Greg Crosby, MA, LPC, CGP, is a clinical group coordinator for Kaiser Permanente's northwest region. He has a national consulting and training practice in group therapy. Mr. Crosby is on the national board of Certified Group Psychotherapists and is an adjunct faculty member at Lewis & Clark College graduate school in counseling psychology, at Portland State University in continuing professional education, at Marylhurst University in humanities, and at Oregon Health & Science University in the department of psychiatry.
Rachel Cunliffe Hardesty, PhD, is a college instructor, researcher, and freelance writer. She received her BA and MA from Cambridge University, England, her teaching degree from Manchester University, England, her MEd in educational psychology from University of Minnesota, and her PhD from University of Arizona in special education and rehabilitation. The first six yeas of Rachel's career were in deaf education in a school where half of the children were from non-English speaking homes. At University of Arizona, she taught Teacher Research Methodology and a Literacy and Deafness course, and supervised student teacher interns. Her dissertation was the culmination of a ten-year study on the use of dialogue journals between student teachers and university supervisors during teaching internships. During her years in deaf education, she became interested in what happens to youth with disabilities when they come in contact with the criminal justice system. For several years she has taught a three-course series on restorative justice at the Hatfield School of Government, Portland State University, and is an adjunct faculty member for three universities. Mostly teaching online, she has developed a caring methodology for cyber classrooms.
Debra Pearce-McCall, PhD, integrates and applies information about the mind, relationships, and neuroscience in her work as a clinician, consultant, and educator. She has embraced a systemic, interdisciplinary perspective for over 30 years, through experiences as a clinician, supervisor, executive, and consultant in a range of settings, including nonprofit agencies, group practices, and corporations. Dr. Pearce-McCall has taught a variety of classes as an adjunct professor at PSU over the past decade and has been instrumental in the development of the IPNB program. She is a charter member and board member of GAINS (Global Association for Interpersonal Neurobiology Studies) and an editor for their Quarterly. A licensed psychologist and licensed relationship therapist, she maintains a private consulting and clinical practice in Portland, Oregon, working with adults and organizations.