MindMax Team

Rob Abaje

Founder

Petra Yung

Course Director

Isaak Gordon

Business Manager

Psychology & Behavioral Science Research

Dr. Jay Belsky

UC Davis

Influential in child development, early environment, and parenting research.

Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn

U Mass

Professor emeritus of medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

Dr. Tiffany Field

U Miami

Director of the Touch Research Institute in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Miami School of Medicine

Psychotherapy & Clinical Frameworks Research

Dr. Grazyna Kochanska

U Iowa

Renowned for studies on early temperament, self-regulation, and social development.

Dr. Andrew Weil

U Arizona

Doctor and advocate of alternative and integrative medicine.

Dr. Phillip Shaver

UC Davis

Acclaimed in the field of adult attachment influences & understanding of relational/sexual compulsivity.

Dr. Susan Mcconnell

Stanford

Susan is a certified therapist and has taught Internal Family Systems around the world since 1997. 

Dr. Martha Sweezy

Harvard

Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and a clinical and program development consultant at Cambridge Health Alliance.

Neuroscience & Somatic System Research

Dr. Valerie Voon

Cambridge

Neuroscience researcher on compulsive sexual behavior.

Dr. Jaak Panksepp

U Mass

Neuroscientist and psychobiologist who coined the term "affective neuroscience", the name for the field that studies the neural mechanisms of emotion.

Dr. Laurie Mintz

U Florida

American psychologist, sex therapist, and professor emerita in the Department of Psychology at the University of Florida

Creative & Expressive Therapies Research

Dr. Hariet Wadeson

Northwestern

Pioneer in the art therapy profession, and an author, researcher, and educator, who established and directed the Art Therapy Graduate Program at Northwestern.

Dr. Janine Santos

APR

Psychologist and art therapist. Instructor of Yoga and Tantra for 20+ years.

MindMax Support Staff

Kate Ng

Emma Dubois

Sam Eisner

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