Karin Bausenbach M.D. is a Developmental/ Behavioral Pediatrician affiliated with the Northwest Early Childhood Institute and Kaiser Permanente Northwest in Portland.  She initially studied Fine Arts and Navajo Culture and Art as an undergraduate. In her mid 20’s she became intrigued with the medical field and a desire to help people. She completed her Registered Nurse diploma and worked for 8 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 7 years, and developed an intense interest in pediatric development and behavior, and its neuroscientific basis. For the last 4 years she has specialized in Pediatric Development and Behavior in her clinical practice and finds this work extremely satisfying. She also over the past 4 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 and finds formal teaching a wonderful outlet as well.

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, LP, LMFT, has embraced a systemic, interdisciplinary perspective for over 25 years. Her work as a clinician, supervisor, executive, and consultant has taken place in a range of settings, including nonprofit agencies, group practices, and corporations. She has taught undergraduate and graduate classes at several universities and is an adjunct instructor at Portland State University. She has also given professional and public workshops in relationships and mental health. Currently, she is a licensed marriage and family therapist, a licensed psychologist, and an AAMFT approved supervisor, and provides therapy, consultation, and supervision through her private practice in Portland.