Psychjourney and Dr. John Riolo "The Insider" proudly present the Laurel Honorees.
Laurel Winner: Mike Skinner, songwriter, singer, activist
He donates his time as a professional guitarist and drummer to fundraising events in N.H., especially those sponsored by organizations raising money to address mental health related issues. His performing helps erase erroneous public images of mental illness and serves as a type of self-help therapy. Last year, Mr. Skinner performed live during registration for the Sexual Assault Support Services (SASS) Annual Walk-A-Thon, held in Portsmouth on April 22, 2001. This event succeeded in raising more than $20,000 for SASS.
Website: Mike Skinner Music
URL: http://www.mskinnermusic.com
Laurel Winner: John Sommer, LMSW-ACP Private Practice, Brownwood Texas
Renown: For a common sense approach to collecting fees, which is not as common as one, might hope.
Email address: joden@web-access.net
Laurel Winner: Heather G. Miller, LCSW, Warminster, Pennsylvania
Renown: For refusing to diagnose an adolescent with a condition that was not present simply so insurance would pay for therapy.
Website: Homepage of Heather Miller, LCSW
URL: http://mywebpages.comcast.net/heathergm
Email address: heathergm@comcast.net
Laurel Winner: Amy L. Hill Coordinator of Silence Speaks Org.
Renown: For giving people without a voice the support, skills, and equipment they need to create original multimedia pieces about the impact that violence has had on their lives.
Website: Silence Speaks
Website URL: http://www.silencespeaks.org
Laurel Winner: Richard Shulman, Ph.D, licensed Clinical Psychologist, President of Volunteers in Psychotherapy, Inc.
Renown: He is the founder and President of a non-profit organization that offers affordable and truly private psychotherapy for the community, in exchange for volunteer work clients donate to the charity of their choice
Website: Volunteers In Psychotherapy
Website URL: http://www.ctvip.org/scripts/index.asp
Email Address: CTVIP@hotmail.com
Laurel Winner: Carol Tavris, Ph.D. A Social Psychologist is on the board of the Council for Scientific Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry, a consulting editor of The Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice, and a member of the editorial board of Psychological Science in the Public Interest.
Renown: Carol Tavris, Ph.D. for her excellence in writing for a popular audience on the growing dichotomy between mental health practitioners and scientists
Website: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Website URL: http://chronicle.com/free/v49/i25/25b00701.htm.
Laurel Winner: Martin E.P. Seligman, Ph.D. conducts research on Positive Psychology learned helplessness, depression, and on optimism and pessimism. He is currently Fox Leadership Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is well known in academic and clinical circles and is a best-selling author.
Renown: For his outstanding clinical and academic achievements and his promotion of the field of Positive Psychology.
Website: The Martin Seligman Research Alliance
Website URL: http://www.positivepsychology.org
Email Address: seligman@psych.upenn.edu
Laurel Winner: Anthony Butler, MSW is the Associate Executive Director of the BCHS Brooklyn Community Housing and Services. Anthony has now worked in the field of social service and community organizing for over 25 years. During this time, all of his work has been of a community-based nature.
Renown: For his visionary leadership, unwavering commitment to social service and his pioneering programs to bridge the digital divide.
Website: BCHS Brooklyn Community Housing and Services
Website URL: http://www.bchands.org
Email Address: AnthonyB@bchands.org
Laurel Winner: Regina Kelly, a writer, reporter, and consumer advocate
Renown: Regina Kelly a Bay Area, consumer advocate for people with Attention Deficit Disorder and their families. Regina has been a tireless advocate for her cause educating the public but most importantly professionals. She had courageously educated the professional on the importance of looking at neurological factors in assessment of patients. Some therapists are receptive and some not. Regina is willing to go in to the lion’s den so to speak and go on internet discussion groups that were once the inner sanctum of therapist where they would talk about patients and lament their hardships. Some have tried to run her out of some groups and or put her in her place. Fat chance! That is the Right Stuff.
Email Address: ReginaK56@RCN.com
Laurel Winner: Resources For Living, an organization dedicated to helping individuals measurably transform their lives and as a result, transform the environments in which they work and live.
Renown: RFL has adopted a Client Driven/Outcome Informed approach to wellness. This approach puts RFL on the cutting edge of delivering services that are measurably helping their clients to change.
Website: Resources For Living
Website URL: http://www.rfl.com/index.cfm
Email Address: info@rfl.com.
Laurel Winner: Dr. Elizabeth Topp
Renown: Mara McWilliams says, "Elizabeth taught me how to stop and ground myself, which proved to be more valuable than most lessons I have learned in therapy. She was firm yet completely supported my growth and emotional development. Elizabeth taught me that I hold the keys to all the doors in my life.
Laurel Winner: Dr. Alene Strahan
Renown: Dr. Alene Strahan, in all of the years of my interactions and meetings with psychiatrists and psychopharmacologists, stands out as being the brightest and most effective one I have ever met. She's a brilliant diagnostician, works hand in hand with her patients and makes herself available unlike any other doctor. Her care, concern and kindness in dealing with mental health patients is extraordinary and for all of these reasons, I have nominated her for the Laurel awards.
Laurel Winner: Sherlock Holmes
Renown: This is to the computer expert who insists on remaining anonymous but who was extremely helpful in assisting me, Dr. John Riolo, learn the identity of a cyber stalker by tracing ISP addresses. It not only helped me but possibly helped someone whose identity may have been stolen.
Laurel Winner: Dale Mitchell, M.A., Clinical Social Worker
Renown: For his staunch support of the public sector's role in promoting
economic and social justice. Dale Mitchell has been Ethos Executive Director since 1993.Prior to this, he was Assistant Administrator for the Boston Housing Authority and a public interest lobbyist and policy analyst specializing in welfare and tax reform
Website: Ethos
Phone: (617) 522-6700
Laurel Winner: Diane Sollee, MSW
Renown: She is founder and director of the Coalition for Marriage, Family and Couples Education, (CMFCE) and director of the annual Smart Marriages/Happy Families conference and of Smart Marriages. Before founding CMFCE in 1996, Sollee, a marriage and family therapist, spent ten years at the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) as Associate Executive Director for Professional Education and Public Information. She serves as a consultant to national, state and community leaders and appears regularly in the media as an expert on marriage education and marriage strengthening initiatives
Website: Smart Marriages
URL: http://www.smartmarriages.com
Email:Diane@smartmarriages.com
Phone: 202-362-3332
Laurel Winner: Rosemarie Rossetti, Ph.D
Renown: Rosemarie Rossetti is a powerful inspirational speaker and expert on coping with change, presentation and communication skill development, writing, and publishing. After a life changing event, this survivor, and fighter is a model of courage. On June 13, 1998 she was paralyzed when an 80' tree fell on her while she was riding her bicycle. In her keynote motivational speeches, Rossetti shares the lessons she has learned in order to recover after a crisis and live with conviction
Website: Rosemarie Speaks
URL: http://www.RosemarieSpeaks.com
Email Address: Rosemarie@Rosemariespeaks.com
Phone:614-471-6100
Laurel Winner: Dr. Maura Cohen
Renown :Dr. Maura Cohen is a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice in South Florida. Her area of specialization is the treatment of Traumatic Loss in particular and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in general, including adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse, combat veterans, survivors of natural and manmade disasters. In addition to her private practice, she works for American Airlines in disaster response and for The Journey Institute of South Florida, which treats sexual abuse survivors She has helped thousands of families, couples, and individuals improve their lives greatly. She continues to develop her own intuitive knowledge, so she may impart her wisdom and give to others. She has an incredible way of getting to the heart of the issue, and moving through it powerfully. Dr. Maura Cohen is an incredible woman with many healing gifts
Laurel Winner: Reb Chaim
Renown: Life Coach. In all my travels and studies, I have never met such a powerful, generous, loving person. He is a man with incredible gifts of spirit yet he never goes around speaking of them. He is in action knowing where and what to do next always giving of himself to help others. He has helped thousands upon thousands of people around the world let go of what is holding them back. He insisted that I write those letters to my mother which is why with the recovery of my mother, the Letters From the Heart Project was born. He now lives in Israel with his wife. He has created a new meaning of Shabbat in the Israeli community. There is a waiting list to get in on Friday evenings. He invites all people religious and not, any religion to share in the celebration. They come from all over the world. It is difficult to express in words what an incredible man he is. This is Reb Chaim, my life coach, my great friend, and most of all, my teacher of wisdom. I am forever grateful for him
Website: Reb Chaim
Laurel Winner: Lew Mills, PhD, LMFT
Renown: Dr. Mills is a gifted therapist who devotes countless volunteer efforts to the Northern California CHADD chapter. His organization skills, professional expertise, and promotional efforts have empowered countless people with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD) and their loved ones.
Website: Mills Consulting
URL: http://www.millsconsulting.com
Website: CHADD of Northern California
URL: http://www.chaddnorcal.org/adhd%5Fpartner
Email: LewMills@MillsConsulting.com
Toll Free Number: 888-792-2858
Laurel Winner: Brandon Gaudiano, Ph.D.
Renown: for his work in debunking Thought Field Therapy and other pseudo sciences.
Website: Pseudo Science
URL: http://www.geocities.com/pseudoscience_2000
Email: pseudoscience_2000@yahoo.com
Laurel Winner: James Herbert, Ph.D
Renown: For his work as a clinical psychologist specializing in cognitive-behavior therapy, mood and anxiety disorders, and the distinction between science and pseudoscience in psychology and related fields
Website: James Herbert, Ph.D
http://www.psychology.drexel.edu/herbert.htm
Email: james.herbert@drexel.edu
Laurel Winner: Dr. Scott Lilienfeld
Renown: For his body of work and for founding and being editor of The Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice, a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to evaluating both scientific and potentially pseudoscientific claims in clinical psychology and related disciplines.
Website: The Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice
URL: http://www.srmhp.org
Email Address: slilien@emory.edu
Laurel Winner: Dr. Richard J. McNally
Renown: For his work in cognitive psychology including his studies of trauma and of memory in people reporting histories of childhood sexual abuse Website: Remembering Trauma
URL http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/MCNREM.html