Constance Ahrons, PHd
Dr. Ahrons is a renowned expert on the impact of divorce on families and the author of a number of highly praised publications, including We’re Still Family ( translated in Chinese and Japanese), The Good Divorce (published in Portuguese (O Bom Divorcio) ,Chinese, Japanese, Norwegian, German & Russian) and co-author of Divorced Families. Dr. Ahrons is Professor Emerita from the Department of Sociology and former Director of the Marriage and Family Therapy Doctoral Training Program at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles. She is also a Senior Scholar and founding Co-chair of the Council on Contemporary Families

 MARIA EMILIA COSTA
Dr. Costa is a full professor in the department of Psychology and Educational Sciences and president of the Institute of Psychological Intervention and Human Development at Porto University. She coordinates several post-graduate and doctoral programs in family systems and psychotherapeutic processes and has a vast experience in clinical practice. Professor Costa is the author of several publications, including Looking for Intimacy and Conflict: A Systemic Analysis, her present research interests include intimacy, divorce, family and sex therapy

Valentín Escudero, PhD
Dr. Escudero is a Professor of Psychology and Director of the family intervention postgraduate program at the
University of La Coruña (Spain), and visiting professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium). He is certified as psychotherapist and family therapist and currently serves as Vice President of the Spanish Association for Family Therapy Research (AEIDTF). Dr. Escudero is the author of a over 20 journal articles and most recently has published Therapeutic Alliances in Couple and Family Therapy: An Empirically Informed Guide to Practice

 LYNN HOFFMAN
Ms. Hoffman is one of the leading thinkers and practitioners in the field of family therapy and systems theory. She received the AAMFT Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Contribution. Lynn has presented at hundreds of conferences, workshops, panels, in the U.S. and abroad, over the past 40 years. She is the author of Techniques of Family Therapy (with Jay Haley), Foundations of Family Therapy, Milan Systemic Family Therapy (with Luigi Boscolo, Gianfranco Cecchin, and Peggy Penn), Exchanging Voices,  and most recently, Family Therapy: An Intimate History.

Esther Perel
Ms. Perel is a licensed marriage and family therapist and consultant who specializes in cultural identity, cross cultural relations and ethnic and religious intermarriage. She also serves on the faculty at Columbia University’s International Trauma Studies Program. Fluent in eight languages and a popular media commentator, Ms. Perel has been featured by The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Vogue, the Oprah Winfrey Show, CBC News, CNN, and many others. Ms. Perel is the author of Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic, which has received numerous accolades

Rosa Maria S. Macedo, PhD
Dr. Macedo is the Director of the Family and Community Nucleus, a Professor in the Department of Clinical Psychology, and Director of the Family and Couples Therapy training program Pontifical Catholic University in São Paulo, Brazil. She is the founding member of the Associação Brasileira de Terapia Familiar (ABRATEF) and Associação Paulista de Terapia Familiar. Dr. Macedo is the author of many publications including Psicologia e Instituição (Psychology and Institutions), Terapia Familiar no Brasil (Family Therapy in Brazil), and Psicologia na Comunidade (Psychology in the Community) wiih Carmen Moré

 Daniel Sampaio, MD, PhD
Dr. Sampaio is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Lisbon and the Lisbon Medical School. He is the founder and first President of Sociedade Portuguesa de Terapia Familiar (Portuguese Family Therapy Association). Dr. Sampaio is a prolific author with numerous publications to his name, including Vagabundos de nós (Vagabond of Us), which has been adapted for the theater, A Arte da Fuga  (The Art of the Escape), Ninguém Morre Sozinho (Nobody Dies Alone), and most recently Lavrar o Mar  (To Cultivate the Sea)