Executive Committee

I am a Professor of Psychology at the University of North Texas, where I serve as co-Director of the Center for Psychosocial Health Disparities Research. I am board certified in Clinical Psychology and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) for Division 29 (Psychotherapy). My program of research primarily centers on improving psychological services and client outcomes among under-served and disadvantaged populations via careful inquiry elucidating client and therapist variables, as well as the contributions of training and supervisors. Reasonably complete listings of my published works can be view via:
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The quality of my work is implied via multiple awards for mentorship and selection for the U.S.A National Institutes of Health (NIH) Loan Repayment Program for Individuals from Disadvantaged Backgrounds. I have also been awarded grants from the American Psychological Foundation as well as the Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centers (APPIC) to facilitate work on assessment of competencies. I was also co-PI on a Norine Johnson Psychotherapy Research Grant for work on improving psychotherapist effectiveness. To date, I have authored more than 150 publications and am the current Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Psychotherapy Integration. I am also an Associate Editor for the journal Training and Education in Professional Psychology and a Consulting Editor for the journals American Psychologist and Practice Innovations. Finally, I am an Associate Editor for the forthcoming Handbook on Psychotherapy to be published by the American Psychological Association (APA).

Kristin A. R. Osborn, LMHC founded the Certified APT™-Training Program in 2009 and presents internationally, offering ongoing training in Boston, London, Stockholm and Amsterdam. She is a lecturer (part-time) in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School (HMS) at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and is the Director of the HMS Psychotherapy Research Program. Her passion is teaching clinicians how to integrate research in their clinical training and she developed the ATOS-Therapist Scale, Accessibility Scale, and Congruent/Incongruent Scale, which are featured in a book she co-authored, Paraverbal Communication in Psychotherapy: Beyond the Words, Rowman & Littlefield (2016) Kristin is President Emeritus of the International Experiential Dynamic Therapy Association (IEDTA), on the advisory board of the AffectFokus Institute and Stockholms Akademi for Psychkoterapiutbildning (SAPU) and a member of the continuing education faculty at William James College and RINO-Noord Holland. She has published articles and chapters on training clinicians including, Learning how to rate video-recorded therapy sessions: A Practical Guide for Trainees & Advanced Clinicians, Psychotherapy Journal (2011); On-line Supervision in Affect Phobia Therapy, Using Technology to Enhance Counselor Supervision, American Psychological Association (2016); and Creating Change Through Focusing on Affect: Affect Phobia Therapy, Working on Emotions in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Techniques for Clinical Practice, Guilford Press (2014). To learn more about Kristin and her work, go to www.affectphobiatherapy.com.

Dr. Jeffery Smith is a board certified psychiatrist in private practice with a focus on psychotherapy, based on principles and processes of change rather than specific brands of therapy. He decided to become a therapist as a freshman at Stanford and attended medical school at UCLA. He did an internship in internal medicine at SUNY, Syracuse, NY, and psychiatry residency at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY. He has practiced in Scarsdale, NY since then. In 2004 his teaching of psychotherapy at New York Medical College expanded to include psychotherapy integration, which led to membership in SEPI and, in 2015, to designing and re-launching SEPI’s Integrative Therapist. That same year, “Psychotherapy: A Practical Guide (Springer, 2015) became one of few textbooks of psychotherapy not aligned with any orientation or therapy but compatible with all. He has held a career-long interest in the neurophysiological infrastructure of psychotherapy and has lectured and published on the clinical application of underlying principles. He is author of Howtherapyworks.com, a website and blog dedicated to integrated psychotherapy and has launched an accelerated learning program accompanied by a psychotherapy coaching community providing therapist support in a novel format. He continues to write and speak on the clinical application of foundational principles and processes of psychotherapy compatible with all therapies and orientations.

Dr. Özakkaş is founding president of the Psychotherapy Institute,Turkey and founding president of Psychotherapy Institute Association. He has taught the four-year post-doctoral training program on Integrative Psychotherapy since 2005 and is a pioneer in bridging the gap between Turkey, Balkans, Caucasia, Middle Asia, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas. He is the head of Turkish chapters of SEPI and IsEFT, and Turkish institutional member of IAPSP. As the Regional Network Coordinator, he received Arnkoff & Glass Award for Regional Network of the Year from SEPI in 2017. He led the organization of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th National Integrative Psychotherapy Congresses in Turkey and the 1st International Integrative Psychotherapy Congress in Turkey. He teaches at workshops for mental health professionals, public & private employees, and general public. He presents extensively in national and international conferences on psychotherapy integration, hypnotherapy, personality disorders, and anxiety disorders. He has many articles and several books on these subjects, including Integrative Psychotherapy (12th edition).

Dr. Ken Critchfield is a tenured Associate Professor and Program Director of the Clinical Psychology Program of the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology. Dr. Critchfield’s research, teaching and clinical work all emphasize interpersonal and attachment-based principles of change implemented in Interpersonal Reconstructive Therapy (IRT: Benjamin, 2003; 2018). IRT is an integrative, psychosocial treatment that uses an attachment-based case formulation to tailor treatment for patients having severe and chronic problems characterized comorbid depression, anxiety, PTSD, bipolar disorder, and/or chronic suicidality, often accompanied by personality disorder. Dr. Critchfield earned his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Utah in 2002, with an internship at the San Francisco VA Medical Center, and post-doctoral training at Weill-Cornell Medical College. He was co-director of the IRT clinic at the University of Utah Neuropsychiatric Institute and was most recently directed the Combined-Integrated Clinical and School Psychology program at James Madison University. Dr. Critchfield is a Fellow of APA’s Society for Advancement of Psychotherapy (Div. 29). He has held leadership roles with the Society for Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration (SEPI), and has long been a member of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR). He maintains a psychotherapy practice and frequently consults on issues of methodology, design, and analysis for work at the interface between interpersonal measurement (especially Structural Analysis of Social Behavior), personality, and psychopathology.

Connor Adams PsyD is a Clinical Assistant Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine. She completed her doctorate in psychology at the George Washington University, her internship training at Harvard Medical School/Cambridge Health Alliance, and her postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University. Her clinical and research interests center on therapeutic interventions that support recovery for individuals living with serious mental illness. Connor grounds her work in a psychodynamic perspective, assisting individuals in understanding why they think, feel, and behave the way they do, in order to increase agency and choice. Connor also has training in comprehensive Dialectical Behavior Therapy and provides treatment for individuals with emotion regulation difficulties. She additionally has specialized training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Psychosis (CBTp). Connor provides individual and group psychotherapy, as well as psychological assessments, across the outpatient and inpatient treatment settings. She is broadly interested in increasing access to person-centered and recovery-oriented care, utilizing an integrative approach. Connor is also passionate about teaching, supervising, and mentoring. She enjoys teaching a course titled An Overview of Modern Psychotherapy Techniques and helping students develop integrative therapy skills in supervision.