Executive Committee

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.

Steve Sobelman, Ph.D., a graduate of The American University, is a licensed psychologist who maintains a private clinical psychotherapy practice in Baltimore, Maryland and a telehealth practice through PsyPact.  Additionally, he serves as a consulting psychologist for the International Center for Spinal Cord Injury at Kennedy Krieger Institute, where he works exclusively with patients who have experienced medical trauma.  He is also an Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Loyola University, Baltimore, Maryland, where he taught undergraduate and graduate courses as well as conducted psychotherapy research which resulted in numerous books, book chapters, and professional articles being published.  At Loyola, he served as Chair, Graduate Programs in Psychology for more than 2 decades and was responsible for major changes and growth in the graduate programs of study, to include the creation of the doctoral program in clinical psychology.  

Dr. Sobelman chaired the Board of Examiners of Psychologists in Maryland, was President of the Maryland Psychological Association and currently serves as the Chair of MPA's Past President's Council, served on the Board of Directors of the National Register of Health Care Providers in Psychology, served on APA’s Division 29 (Psychotherapy) Board of Directors and was the Treasurer, and also served as the President of Division 49 (Group Psychotherapy).  He has received many profession awards as well as an award for “Outstanding Contributions to Psychology” by the Maryland Psychological Association.

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.