Executive Committee

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.

Jeffrey J. Magnavita, Ph.D. is a psychologist, psychotherapist, and author who is known as an innovator in the treatment of mental health disorders. Jeffrey has been in private practice for over four decades and is the recipient of numerous awards for his work. He is an internationally recognized speaker who has published twelve professional volumes on personality disorders, personality theory, psychotherapy, clinical decision making and technology in mental health practice. He has been described as “perhaps the most prominent psychologist in the broad area of mental health practice” and was featured in two acclaimed APA psychotherapy videos demonstrating his approach to psychotherapy. He served on the APA Clinical Practice Guidelines Advisory Steering Committee and is the past president of the Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy. He is president elect (2026) for the Society of Psychotherapy Integration and is the CEO of Strategic Psychotherapeutics, LLC and the creator of StratPsych ®, an online learning platform for psychotherapists.

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).

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.