Meet Our Authors

During a decade spent living in Germany, Martine Robinson Beachboard was public relations manager with The University of Maryland Global Campus. In her previous career as a journalist, she won first place in column writing in an Arizona Press Club competition. She has taken top honors from Arizona Press Women multiple times and was a finalist in a Penney-Missouri Newspaper...

Nancy Mintie is an attorney, poet, and founder of two nonprofit organizations that serve low-income communities: the Inner City Law Center on Los Angeles’ Skid Row, and Uncommon Good in Southern California’s Pomona Valley. She has received many awards for her work from entities such as the U.S. Congress, the State of California, the American Bar Association, and her alma...

Mariusz Wirga, MD, is medical director for the PsychoSocial Oncology program in the Todd Cancer Institute at Long Beach Medical Center. He is a board certified psychiatrist specializing in Cognitive Behavioral medicine.

As program director in the department of psychiatry at the University of New Mexico, she supports psychiatric trainees to the University of Arizona’s integrative medicine online module, mentoring future psychiatrists integrative healing methods for those they are serving. She has practiced as a psychiatrist for twenty-eight years in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she is on the faculty at the University...

Julie K. Staples received a doctorate in Cell and Molecular Biology at St. Louis University. She is the Research Director at the Center for Mind-Body Medicine in Washington, D.C. and adjunct assistant professor at Georgetown University School of Medicine. She has been a certified Kundalini Yoga teacher since 1996. Julie teaches online courses on the basics of research and the...

Mr. Mintie is an adjunct faculty member at Georgetown University's School Of Medicine. He has a private practice in Taos New Mexico, USA and teaches cognitive-behavioral therapy at universities and training centers worldwide.

Jacob Towery, is an adolescent psychiatrist in private practice in Palo Alto, California. He currently serves on the Adjunct Faculty at Stanford University School of Medicine. He enjoys seeing patients, snowboarding, scuba diving, traveling, reading fantasy novels, meditating, spending quality time with other humans, making gratuitously long lists, and writing about himself in the third person.

Robert Schachter is a psychologist and an assistant clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry of Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, where he teaches stress management and cognitive therapy. He is also the director of Stress Centers of New York and has worked extensively in the area of stress management and motivation.

Donna Fish, L.C.S.W.-R., is a licensed clinical social worker based in Manhattan, where she runs a private practice and is on the Faculty of the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy’s CSAB division.