SINO-AMERICAN FAMILY THERAPY INSTITUTE

Dr. John K. Miller, LMFT, Director

About Dr. Miller

Dr. John K. Miller is a former full professor of therapy in the US and China and is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in the US. He has been working in China since 2005 and has been in clinical practice for the past 30 years, specializing in individual, couples and family therapy. His philosophy and approach to treatment considers the context in which problems occur and the relationships between the people involved. With this in mind, he will occasionally ask for family and significant others to participate in treatment (only with your consent). This therapy embraces a “wellness” approach to treatment, and encourages clients to explore existing strengths and resources. Dr. Miller earned his Ph.D. in Child and Family Development with a specialization in Family Therapy from Virginia Tech. He also holds a MA in Couples and Family Therapy from the University of Louisiana, as well as a BA in Psychology. This education included coursework on couples therapy, family and child relationships, human sexuality, sex therapy, psychopathology, adult and child development, hypnosis, group psychotherapy, systems theory, and substance abuse counseling. He is a former US Fulbright Senior Research Scholar to China (2009-2010), former Research Associate of the Mental Research Institute (MRI), a former President of the Oregon Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (OAMFT) and a Clinical Member of American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT), and the International Family Therapy Association (IFTA). He is a Professional Member of the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT). He has served on the Board of Directors of the AAMFT, as well as other leadership positions in the US. Dr. Miller is also an Approved Supervisor (AAMFT), supervising other therapists’ clinical work leading to licensure. He is the Director of the Sino-American Family Therapy Institute (SAFTI).

Dr. Miller is a Clinical Member of the Shanghai International Mental Health Association (SIMHA). Click Here to visit Dr. Miller's SIMHA page

约翰·K·米勒博士

美国执业婚姻家庭治疗师

美国婚姻家庭治疗协会认证督导师

        米勒博士曾担任上海复旦大学教授，教学于社会发展与公共关系政策学院社会工作系，曾是美国国务院派遣来中国的富布莱特高级访问学者（2009—2010），俄勒冈州婚姻与家庭治疗协会前主席，美国婚姻与家庭治疗协会（AAMFT）董事会前董事成员，心智研究院(MRI)前副研究员，以及俄勒冈大学家庭治疗系研究生项目的前项目主任。 米勒教授目前担任美国著名的婚姻家庭期刊(JMFT)国际事务部的特别编辑。 

        米勒博士的学术研究范围包括伴侣、婚姻及家庭心理治疗在中国的运用、国际家庭心理治疗、单次简短治疗、伴侣治疗，和精神心理治疗的胜任力。自2007年起，米勒教授每年组织西方的专业治疗师与东南亚地区（包括中国，越南和柬埔寨）的同行进行学术交流。

        在25年的教育生涯中，米勒博士在国际心理咨询领域的代表性杂志期刊中发表了众多具有影响力的文章，并举办了多次国际性的培训。

Dr. WENDEL A. RAY, PROFESSOR

About Dr. RAY

Wendel Ray was born in Jacksonville, Florida on December, 29, 1953. Wendel Ray earned a BA in Sociology and Political Science in 1981 and a Master of Social Work in 1983, at the University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg ; he got his PhD. as Doctor of Philosophy in Marriage & Family Therapy in 1989 at Nova University, Ft Lauderdale, Florida. Dr Ray has been an individual, couple, and family therapist for more than 30 years, helping people find solutions to problems in living. His practice is specialized in brief therapy to solve intransigent relationship problems. He has an extensive experience working with couples, families with child and adolescent problems.
He’s also a Professor of Family System Theory at the College of Arts, Education, and Sciences at University of Louisiana in Monroe. He’s been teaching people how to be effective therapists as well as conducting workshops around the world and publishing extensively on how to help therapists be effective in helping people improve their marital, family, and business relationships.

Dr Ray is a Senior Research Fellow and former Director of the Mental Research Institute (MRI), and founding director of the Don D. Jackson Archive of Systemic Literature.

Author of 100+ juried journal articles and book chapters, and 10 books available in 8 languages, Dr Ray is frequently invited to teach Brief Therapy and applied system theory at forums nationally, across Europe, Asia, and Central America.

温德尔·瑞博士1953年12月29日出生于美国佛罗里达州的杰克森维尔。他1981年拿到了位于哈蒂斯堡的南密西西比大学的社会学与政治科学双学士学位，于1983年顺利拿到该校的社会工作硕士学位。1989年，瑞博士获得佛罗里达州劳德代尔堡市诺瓦大学的哲学博士学位，专攻婚姻与家庭治疗。瑞博士作为从事个人、伴侣和家庭治疗的治疗师长达30余年，帮助人们找到在他们生活中所面临的问题的解决方案。他的治疗工作主要集中在短期治疗方面，解决卡住的家庭问题，并且对伴侣、有孩子的家庭和青少年问题的治疗有着丰富的临床经验。

瑞博士现任路易斯安那大学（位于门罗市）文理教育科学院的家庭系统理论教授，他教导学生如何成为有胜任力的心理咨询师，在世界各地进行有关家庭治疗的讲座，并发表了大量的学术论文和书籍。瑞博士的这些努力和尝试旨在帮助心理咨询师能更有效地改善人们的婚姻、家庭和社会关系。瑞博士曾是心智研究院的的高级研究员和前主任，并是唐·D·杰克森系统理论文献档案馆的创始人和主任。

作为撰写100多篇评审期刊文章、书籍篇章和10本被翻译成8种语言的作家，瑞博士经常被邀请到世界各地各大峰会论坛教授短期治疗以及应用系统理论，横跨欧洲，亚洲以及中美洲

Dr. jason j. platt, PROFESSOR

About Dr. platt

Dr. Platt was born, raised and educated in the United States where he earned his Ph.D. in family therapy. Dr. Platt currently lives in Mexico and has served as the Director of the Graduate Program in Counseling Psychology at the Mexico City campus of Alliant International University. He was also the Director of The Certificate in Latin American Family Therapy program, and the MFT Mexico Satellite program.

The emphasis of his work is influenced by the ideas of Paulo Freire’s dialogical approach and the tenets of liberation psychology as described by Ignacio Martin Baro. Dr. Platt is an AAMFT Approved Supervisor and a leader in the field of western family therapy.

普莱特博士出生成长于美国，并在美国获得了家庭治疗博士学位。普莱特博士目前居住在墨西哥，担任阿利安特国际大学墨西哥城分校心理咨询项目研究生部主任。他同时还担任拉丁美洲家庭治疗认证项目主任，以及婚姻家庭治疗墨西哥卫星项目的主任。

他所擅长的工作领域是由Paulo Freire提出的对话策略（Dialogical Approach），以及由Ignacio Martin Baro所提出的解放心理学（Liberation Psychology）。Platt博士是美国婚姻家庭治疗协会的认证督导师，也是西方家庭治疗领域的领军人物。

Dr. lETICIA GONZALEz PILESKI, PROFESSOR

About Dr. PILESKI

Dr. Leticia Gonzalez Pileski is the Executive Director at San Diego State University’s Center for Community Counseling and Engagement, a community-based psychotherapy training facility. In addition, she is a Professor of Equity at SDSU where she works collaboratively with a team on tackling social justice issues and increasing equitable practices in higher education.

She is a California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, an AAMFT Approved Clinical Supervisor/Mentor and earned a Certificate in Latin American Family Therapy from Alliant International University’s Spanish Language and Cultural Immersion Program Mexico. She is a Co-Founder for the Liberation Psychology Intercambio annual training in El Salvador and has been actively involved in international educational efforts since 2005 in the United States, Mexico, Cambodia, Costa Rica, and El Salvador. The last two decades, she has worked with diverse community-based programs, school-based therapeutic services and in crisis clinics. Dr. Letty recently completed the Daring Way certification, a Dr. Brené Brown training focused on shame resiliency. Dr. Pileski has had advanced clinical Strategic Family therapy training from Dr. Jay Haley and Mental Research Institute & dedicated the last decade in practicing from a post-modern social justice lens.

莱蒂西亚·冈萨雷斯·皮尔斯基博士是圣地亚哥州立大学社区咨询与参与中心的执行董事，该中心是一家基于社区的心理治疗培训场所。此外，她还是SDSU的平等课目的教授，通过团队合作，处理高等教育中的社会正义问题，增加公平实践。

她是加州婚姻和家庭执证治疗师，AAMFT认证临床督员师/导师，并获得 Alliant 国际大学的墨西哥西班牙语语言和文化浸入式课程的拉丁美洲家庭治疗证书。她是萨尔瓦多解放心理学 Intercambio 年度培训的联合创始人。自 2005 年以来一直积极参与美国、墨西哥、柬埔寨、哥斯达黎加和萨尔瓦多的国际教育工作。在过去的二十年里，她参与了各种以社区为基础的项目、以学校为基础的治疗服务和危机诊所。 莱蒂博士最近完成了 Daring Way 认证，这是 Brené Brown 博士的一项专注于羞耻复原力的培训。 皮尔斯基博士接受了杰·黑利博士和心智研究所的高级临床策略家庭治疗培训，并在过去十年中致力于后现代社会正义观点的实践治疗。

Dr. CHRIS BURNETT, PROFESSOR

About Dr. BURNETT

Christopher F. Burnett, Psy.D., is director of Doctoral Programs/Assistant Professor at Nova Southeastern University (NSU) College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (CAHSS).  He joined the University in 1993; his clinical specialty is Bowen Family Systems Theory, an interest he has maintained now for over 20 years. Dr. Burnett is increasingly recognized for his work in the application of systems thinking to social and organizational systems.  

His work focuses on "Human Systems" in the areas of government, business, education, community development and health care, with the goal of illuminating and improving the quality of the human relationships necessary for success in each.  He was a featured presenter at the 2001 AAMFT Summer Institutes for Advanced Clinical Training in Vancouver, where he presented "Developing a Corporate Consulting and Systems Training Practice".

克里斯多夫 F. 贝尔内特博士是美国东南诺瓦大学文科，人类，社会科学学院的博士项目主任/副教授。他自1993年起任职于该大学。贝尔奈特博士临床专长于鲍温家庭系统理论，对该领域的研究兴趣持续了20多年至今。贝尔奈特博士将系统思维应用于社会与组织体系的工作使他广受学术界的认可与肯定。

他关注政府、商业、教育、社区发展、健康医疗等领域的“人类系统”，努力促进系统中人际间的关系质量，在一个系统中，人际关系质量作为个体成功与成就的必要因素，起着至关重要的作用。他曾在2001年，于温哥华召开的美国婚姻家庭治疗协会高级临床培训暑期研讨会中作为特邀发言人，作题为《商业公司咨询与系统理论培训工作的发展》。

Dr. JEFF TODAHL, PROFESSOR

About Dr. TODAHL

Dr. Todahl is an Associate Professor in the Couples and Family Therapy Program (Counseling Psychology and Human Services Department) and Director of the Center for the Prevention of Abuse and Neglect at the University of Oregon (USA). He has served as Director of the University’s Center for Family Therapy, as Director of the Couples and Family Therapy Graduate Program.

His research centers around violence prevention and community engagement as a vehicle for reducing child abuse. He is the primary investigator of several studies that investigated the complexities of intimate partner violence (IPV), IPV universal screening, and IPV and couples therapy, and is co-investigator of a clinical trial examining a prevention-oriented model for new parent couples. Dr. Todahl is an expert in couples therapy and domestic violence prevention.

特德尔博士是美国俄勒冈州大学伴侣与家庭治疗项目的副教授（心理咨询与人类服务系），并任美国俄勒冈州大学虐待与忽视预防中心主任。他常年担任大学家庭治疗中心主任，以及伴侣与家庭治疗研究生项目主任。

专长研究领域为通过社会的合作从而预防暴力及减少儿童虐待的发生。他是若干研究项目的首要研究者：亲密伴侣暴力（Intimate Partner Violence, IPV）的复杂性，亲密伴侣暴力(IPA)的普遍筛查，亲密伴侣暴力(IPA)与伴侣治疗;并担任一项针对初为人父母的伴侣们的，以预防为主的临床试验研究的协同研究者。特德尔博士是伴侣治疗与家庭暴力预防领域的专家。

Dr. ARNIE SLIVE, PROFESSOR

About Dr. ARNIE SLIVE

Arnie Slive, Ph.D. is a Licensed Psychologist, AAMFT Clinical Fellow and Approved Supervisor. His interests are in brief, strength-based, systemic psychotherapy, program development, supervision and teaching. He has published in the areas of family therapy, residential treatment, adolescence, and single session/walk-in therapy. He has worked in hospital mental health, residential treatment, children’s mental health, and private practice. In Calgary, he was a founder of the Eastside Family Centre, a walk-in single-session counseling center, and was Clinical Director of Wood’s Homes. He has a career interest in developing strategies to make mental health increasingly accessible. He is a past president of the Alberta Association of Marriage and Family Therapy. He is the recipient of the Divisional Contribution Award (AAMFT) and the Innovative Services to Families Award (Alberta Division, AAMFT). He was a Fulbright Specialist teaching walk-in/single-session services in Canada. He is co-editor of When One Hour Is All You Have: Effective Counseling for Walk-in Clients (2011) and One At A Time: Single-Session Therapy By Walk-In Or Appointment (2018). He is visiting professor at Our Lady of the Lake University and a part-time psychotherapist and consultant to Wellness Together Canada and Stepped Care Solutions.

阿尼·斯莱夫博士

AAMFT 的临床研究学者与认证督导师

执业心理学家

执业心理学家阿尼·斯莱夫博士是位执业心理学家和AAMFT 的临床研究学者与认证督导师。他的学术研究和临床实践范围包括简短治疗、聚焦优势治疗、系统心理治疗、项目开发、督导和教学。他在家庭治疗、住院心理治疗、青春期，以及单次/步入式治疗等领域发表了众多的学术论文。他的临床实践经验覆盖面广阔，涉及了医院心理治疗、住院心理治疗、儿童心理健康和私人临床执业等多方面。在加拿大卡尔加里，他是 Eastside Family Centre（步入式单次心理治疗中心）的创始人，并且是 Wood's Homes 的临床主任。他的职业生涯目标是发展有效的策略，使心理健康行业能越来越普遍地服务于大众。他是加拿大艾伯塔省婚姻和家庭治疗协会的前任主席，还获得AAMFT颁发的地区贡献奖和家庭治疗的创新服务奖（艾伯塔地区，AAMFT）。他是教授加拿大的无预约/单次心理咨询服务的富布赖特专家。他是《当你只可以腾出一小时的时候：为未预约客户提供有效的心理咨询》（2011 年）和《一步步来：通过未约或有约的单次心理治疗》（2018 年）的联合编辑。他是圣母湖大学的客座教授，也是加拿大 Wellness Together 和 Stepped Care Solutions 的兼职心理治疗师及顾问。

PHILIP MESSENT, FACULTY

About PHILIP MESSENT

Philip Messent MA (Oxon), CQSW, ACT in Family Therapy

Family Psychotherapist, London, UK

Editor, Journal of Family Therapy

I trained and worked as social worker, then as a systemic psychotherapist, in the 1980s, spending 30 years working in Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services in the East End of London. 

Since 2017, I work in an independent capacity, working with individuals, couples, families and organisations, and am committed to developing collaborative ways of working which acknowledge and hold in mind the complexities of people’s lives, and which seek to harness resources to overcome difficulties by building a sense of meaningful and effective connection with others.

I am of white UK heritage and have a long-standing interest in working across differences in culture (as has been an everyday necessity living and working in London), teaching and writing on this topic.  More recently I have been working with social care and mental health teams towards more collaborative and transparent ways of engaging with clients and their families around issues of concern and risk and have l have also published about this area of work.   

DR. CHRISTIAN JORDAL

About DR. CHRISTIAN JORDAL

Christian Jordal, PhD, is the interim chair and an Associate Clinical Professor of the Counseling & Family Therapy Department at Drexel University. He has been at Drexel since 2012.  He formerly taught foundational, contextual, and supervisory graduate and undergraduate courses in couple and family therapy, counseling psychology, and human development at the Northcentral University, University of Oregon and Virginia Tech.

Christian Jordal 博士是德雷塞尔大学咨询与家庭治疗系的临时主席和临床副教授。自 2012 年以来，他一直在德雷克塞尔工作。他曾在北中央大学、俄勒冈大学和弗吉尼亚理工大学教授夫妻与家庭治疗、咨询心理学和人类发展的基础、情境和监督研究生和本科课程。

Dr. Jordal is a licensed marriage and family therapist in the states of Pennsylvania and New Jersey and been clinically active for 15 years across a variety of university, agency and hospital-based settings, including the Drexel University Individual, Couple, and Family Therapy Services Clinic, Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine at the University of California at San Diego, the Family Therapy Center at the University of Oregon and the Marriage and Family Counseling Service in Rock Island, Illinois. He is trained in Emotionally focused Therapy and has a private practice in Center City Philadelphia, where he works with adult individuals, couples, and families.

Jordal 博士是宾夕法尼亚州和新泽西州持证婚姻和家庭治疗师，在各种大学、机构和医院环境中从事临床工作 15 年，包括德雷塞尔大学个人、夫妻和家庭治疗服务、加利福尼亚大学圣地亚哥分校儿科和青少年医学系诊所、俄勒冈大学家庭治疗中心以及伊利诺伊州罗克岛的婚姻和家庭咨询服务中心。他受训于情绪聚焦治疗，并在费城市中心拥有一家私人诊所，服务于成年人、夫妻和家庭。

Dr. Jordal is a Clinical Fellow and Approved Supervisor in the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.  Dr Jordal earned a post-graduate certificate in sex therapy from the Philadelphia Council for Relationships in 2014, and he completed a post-graduate certificate in transgender healthcare from Widener University in 2018.  He is a Certified Sex Therapist Supervisor by the American Society for Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists. 

Jordal 博士是美国婚姻与家庭治疗协会的临床研究员和督导师。 Jordal 博士于 2014 年获得费城关系委员会的性治疗研究生证书，并于 2018 年完成了威德纳大学的跨性别医疗保健研究生证书。他是美国性协会认证的性治疗督导师、教育主管、咨询师和治疗师。

Dr Jordal formerly served on the Commission for Accreditation on Marriage and Family Therapy Education from 2018-2021.  He currently serves on the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Board of Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists and Professional Counselors.

Jordal 博士曾于 2018-2021 年在婚姻与家庭治疗教育认证委员会任职。现任宾夕法尼亚州社会工作者、婚姻与家庭治疗师和专家咨询师。

Dr. Jordal's research agenda and scholarship includes the use of mixed methodology and encompasses sexual and gender identity and relationships, marital commitment, and behavioral health outcomes.  Dr. Jordal is the former editor of the Journal of Family Psychotherapy, affiliated with the International Family Therapy Association. He has co-authored several articles published in peer-reviewed academic journals and presented his work at national conferences including the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy; American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists; the International Family Therapy Association; National Council for Family Relations; and the Society of Behavioral Medicine.

Jordal 博士的研究过程和学术研究使用了整合式得方法，包括性和性别认同和关系、婚姻承诺和行为健康成果。 Jordal 博士是隶属于国际家庭治疗协会的《家庭心理治疗杂志》的前编辑。他与人合作编著了文章发表于同行评审的学术期刊上，并在一个包括美国婚姻与家庭治疗协会、美国性教育者、顾问和治疗师协会、国际家庭治疗协会、全国家庭关系委员会、和行为医学学会等在内全国性学大会上展示了他的工作成果。

 Christian Jordal, Ph.D., LMFT, CST-S

克里斯蒂安·乔达尔 博士，婚姻家庭治疗师，性治疗师

美国婚姻家庭治疗协会 临床研究员，认证督导师

美国性治疗协会认证，性治疗督导师、性治疗师、教育主管、咨询顾问

德雷塞尔大学咨询与家庭治疗系  临时主席、临床副教授

宾夕法尼亚州社会工作者、婚姻与家庭治疗师和专家咨询师

DR. BRIAN CANFIELD

About DR. BRIAN CANFIELD

Dr. Canfield was interviewed by Dr. Miller about his work using couples (dyadic) therapy for the treatment of individual therapy issues. He also also co-supervised our advanced online supervision group about their clinical work. He is one of the founders of the International Association of Psychology and Counseling (www.intapc.org) and encourages student and therapist to join!

TOPIC:  Dyadic-Based Therapy

(working with couples to address traditionally "individual" issues)

Dr. Brian S. Canfield specializes in marriage counseling and couple therapy.  As a licensed psychologist (AR) and licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (FL and LA), he has worked with more than 2,600 couples over the past several decades to help them bring about needed changes in their lives and relationships.

Dr. Canfield is former clinical director of the Ph.D. program in Marriage and Family Therapy at the University of Louisiana at Monroe, and currently holds appointment as Professor of Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida.  He received his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees from Louisiana Tech University; and his Doctor of Education degree in Counseling and Guidance, with a program emphasis in marriage and family therapy from Texas A&M University in Commerce. He is a Past President of the International Association for Marriage and Family Counselors (IAMFC) and a Fellow and Past President of the American Counseling Association (ACA).  Dr. Canfield serves as founding Board Member of the International Association of Psychology and Counseling (www.intapc.org)

Dr. Canfield is an internationally-recognized expert in the field of family counseling. He is the recipient of several prestigious awards, including the "Distinguished Leadership Award" of the International Association of Marriage and Family Counselors", the "Advocate of the Year" award of the Florida Counseling Association, and the "Life Time Achievement Award" of the Louisiana Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.  His clinical work and publications in the area of applied cybernetics - examining dyadic relationships and the inter-relationship of individuals within groups and relational systems, and his research in the area of "job and family stress" - are widely cited in the professional literature and used in a number of clinical training programs in the United States and abroad.  For the past 20 years, he has served as Director of the week-long annual Oxford Institute for Marriage and Couple Therapy which is held each Summer at St. Hilda's College, Oxford University (UK).  

renee yue yang, executive director

About renee yue yang

Renee Yue Yang is the Sino-American Family Therapy Institute (SAFTI) Executive Director.  She is a native of Shanghai and a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in the United States as a Regent Scholar.  She is fluent in both English and Chinese and has served as a translator for institute, foreign scholars, and international academic exchanges between visiting delegations from the USA and throughout the Western world.  She is the lead translator for the translation of the seminal textbook, “Family Therapy:  A Systemic Integration” which is being published by Fudan University Press in 2021.  She has translated numerous scholarly family therapy articles and manuscripts for professional publication.  She is certified by the Independent Educational Consultants Association (IECA) in the USA and has 25 years of expertise in US academic culture.round issues of concern and risk and have l have also published about this area of work.