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Johanna D. Sagarin, PhD, is currently a professor of practice at Assumption University and psychologist in private practice. After working at Boston Children’s Hospital, Dr. Sagarin was Vice President of Children’s Friend, Inc., in Worcester, MA where she directed their community mental health clinic specializing in youth and families for close to two decades. There she was also involved in program development, helping to create specialized programs in grief and in working with LGBTQIA+ youth and their families. She was awarded the Worcester Business Journal 40 Under 40 award based on her work at Children’s Friend. She has co-authored book chapters and peer reviewed articles, as well as Working with Parents in Child Psychotherapy, with Elisa Bronfman, PhD. She has presented at conferences and provided trainings for both professional and lay audiences. Over the years one of her great joys in her work has been supervising and consulting with talented clinicians and students

Elisa Bronfman, PhD, is a senior staff psychologist at Boston Children’s Hospital, where she specializes in supporting children, teens, and families coping with medical illness. In her 25 years at the hospital, she has provided training, supervision, and individual and family psychotherapy, as well as conducted numerous patient and caregiver groups targeting a range of child issues, including coping with medical illness, managing behavioral issues, building executive functioning, coping with anxiety and emotional dysregulation, and transitioning to adult care. Dr. Bronfman is also Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School; first author of the Atypical Maternal Behavior Instrument for Assessment and Classification (AMBIANCE), a research tool used to assess parent−infant attachment, on which she provides training nationally and internationally; and coauthor of publications appearing in both peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed journals and books on a range of topics.