Advisory Committee

Keith Armstrong, LCSW

Director of the Family Therapy Clinic and member of the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Clinical Team at the VA in San Francisco; Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco; the co-author of Courage After Fire, a self-help book for returning Iraq and...

John Briere, PhD

Associate Professor in the departments of Psychiatry and Psychology at the University of Southern California, and Director of the Psychological Trauma Program at LAC-USC Medical Center.  He is a past president of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS). Designated as...

Kristin Henderson

Author, journalist, military spouse, she has written frequently on military issues for the Washington Post Magazine and other publications. She is the author of While They're at War: The True Story of American Families on the Homefront, and Driving By Moonlight, an account of...

Alicia Lieberman, Ph.D.

Irving B. Harris Endowed Chair in Infant Mental Health
Professor and Vice Chair for Academic Affairs
UCSF Department of Psychiatry
Director, Child Trauma Research Program
San Francisco General Hospital

Dr. Lieberman is currently the Director of the Early Trauma...

David Rabb, MA, ACSW, LICSW

Currently serving on active duty as the Director of Psychological Health and Wellness, 63rd Readiness Support Command, Western Region of the U.S., headquartered at Moffett Field, Mountain View, CA. Formerly Western Regional Medical Command Military-VA Liaison, with oversight of Army Service...

Sharon Salzberg

One of America’s leading spiritual teachers and authors, Sharon Salzberg is cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) in Barre, Massachusetts. She has played a crucial role in bringing Asian meditation practices to the West. The ancient Buddhist practices of vipassana (mindfulness) and...

Allan Schore, Ph.D.

Clinical faculty of the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, and at the UCLA Center for Culture, Brain, and Development. The editor-in-chief of Norton's series on Interpersonal Neurobiology, his activities as a clinician-scientist span his...

Stephen Xenakis, MD, Brigadier General (Ret)

Dr. Xenakis is the Senior Adviser to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs for Wounded Warriors and Survivors.  Retiring at the rank of brigadier general, he served 28 years in the United States Army as a medical corps officer in a variety of assignments as a clinical psychiatrist, staff officer...