Gregory A. 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, Portland State University in continuing professional education, and Marylhurst University in humanities.

Pierre Morin, MD, PhD is a certified process work diplomate, trainer, and psychotherapist, who has 25 years of experience as a practicing physician and counselor specializing in integrative health and psychosocial medicine. Dr. Morin serves as the director of clinical services at a local community health center and works with chronic pain management, chronic disease self-management, coma and end-of-life care, community and minority health. His research interests include current trends in creating partnerships between consumer groups and professionals and their potential for reducing barriers and increasing sustainability and positive outcomes. Dr. Morin is an active member of the interdisciplinary Chronic Pain Society of Oregon.

Ron Unger, LCSW, is a therapist specializing in cognitive therapy for psychosis, who works with both individuals and groups. After studying a variety of psychological approaches to psychosis over several decades, he decided on cognitive therapy due to its revolutionary yet down-to-earth and well-researched approach. Mr. Unger has been a pioneer in bringing cognitive therapy for psychosis into Oregon and has given numerous presentations and workshops about this type of therapy. He has also presented on other psychosocial approaches to psychosis and on the psychological impact of trauma, including the frequent relationship between trauma and psychosis. Mr. Unger’s presentations emphasize simple, practical, and humanistic ways of understanding and relating to human difficulties that can too easily be perceived as being "beyond understanding."

Reid Vanderburgh, MA, LMFT, has been interested in issues pertaining to gender identity and sexual orientation for years. Mr. Vanderburgh's therapeutic specialty is helping clients cope with major life transformative events, such as death of a spouse or child, shifting sexual orientation, spiritual crises, and transition from one sex to another. His work often utilizes expressive arts along with more traditional psychodynamic methods. Mr. Vanderburgh also volunteers at the Trans/identity Resource Center (TiRC). TiRC is affiliated with Outside In, a Portland organization that works with street youth, though TiRC’s services are available to transgendered people of all ages. Through TiRC, he helps transgendered people obtain legal identification and name changes that are gender congruent. He is the author of Transition and Beyond: Observations on Gender Identity, 2006.