Jamie Lee Curtis is a film actress with starring roles in such acclaimed films as Freaky Friday, True Lies, Trading Places and A Fish Called Wanda.

In television, Ms. Curtis co-starred opposite Richard Lewis in the sitcom Anything But Love, as well as the title role in TNT’s adaptation of Wendy Wasserstein’s play, The Heidi Chronicles, and the CBS telefilm.
Ms. Curtis is also an author of best-selling children’s books, having sold over five million books under the banner Books To Grow By:My Mommy Hung The Moon, A Love Story , BIG WORDS for Little People, Is There Really A Human Race?, It’s Hard To Be Five, Learning How To Work My Control Panel,  I’m Gonna Like Me, Letting Off A Little Self Esteem, Where Do Balloons Go? An Uplifting Mystery, Today I Feel Silly and Other Moods That Make My Day, Tell Me Again About The Night I Was Born, and When I Was Little, A Four-Year-Old’s Memoir of Her Youth.
 
Ms. Curtis has a deep and active connection to many children’s charities including, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and Childrens Hospital of Pittsburgh as well as being the official spokesperson for CAAF (The Children Affected by Aids Foundation), and on whose Executive Advisory Board she is a serving member, and The Starlight/Starbright Foundation.  Ms. Curtis is a recovering alcoholic/addict and was honored to have served on the Board of Directors of CASA (The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University).  She currently serves on the board of The Scott Hitt Foundation.

She is the mother of Annie, age 24 and Thomas, age 15 and has been married for 27 years to actor/director Christopher Guest.

Jerry Moe, MA, is Vice President, National Director of Children’s Programs at the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, California, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Texas, and Denver, Colorado.  An Advisory Board Member of the National Association for Children of Alcoholics, he is internationally known as an author, lecturer, and trainer on issues for young children from addicted families.  Jerry received the 2005 America Honors Recovery Award from the Johnson Institute, the 2000 Ackerman/Black Award from NACoA for his outstanding work on behalf of children of alcoholics, and in 1993 he was awarded the Marty Mann Award for outstanding communication in the alcoholism and addiction field.  He is featured in the documentary Lost Childhood: Growing Up in an Alcoholic Family, currently showing on PBS stations across the United States.  Jerry’s books include:  Kids’ Power: Healing Games for Children of Alcoholics; Conducting Support Groups for Elementary Children; Discovery… Finding the Buried Treasure; Kids’ Power Too: Words to Grow By; The Children’s Place… At the Heart of Recovery, the Beamer Series for Kids, and Understanding Addiction and Recovery Through a Child’s Eyes.

Stephanie Brown, Ph.D. is a clinician, author, teacher, researcher, and consultant in the field of addictions. She is the Director of The Addictions Institute in Menlo Park, California, an outpatient psychotherapy clinic based on her developmental model. As a Research Associate at the Mental Research Institute (MRI) in Palo Alto, she co-directed The Family Recovery Research Project during the 1990s and has applied this research to the development of family recovery treatment services.

A psychologist, she is the author, co-author, or editor of ten books including Treating the Alcoholic (Wiley, 1985), Treating Adult Children of Alcoholics (Wiley, 1988) and The Alcoholic Family in Recovery: A Developmental Model (Guilford, 1999). A Place Called Self: Women, Sobriety and Radical Transformation was published by Hazelden, 2004.     She has completed a popular book on the culture’s addiction to speed -- the fast pace of life. 

Dr. Judith Beck is the President of the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy (www.beckinstitute.org), a non-profit organization in suburban Philadelphia, which she co-founded with Aaron T. Beck, M.D., in 1994. Through the Institute, she has trained thousands of health and mental health professionals, nationally and internationally.  She is also Clinical Associate Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania.  She received her doctoral degree from Penn in 1982 and currently divides her time among teaching and supervision, administration, clinical work, program development, research, and writing.  

                Dr. Beck has written nearly 100 articles and chapters and made hundreds of presentations, nationally and internationally, on a variety of topics related to cognitive behavior therapy.  She is the author of the widely adopted textbook, Cognitive Behavior Therapy: Basics and Beyond, translated into over 20 languages, a new edition of which was published this year. Her other books include Cognitive Therapy for Challenging Problems: What to do When the Basics Don’t Work; Cognitive Therapy of Personality Disorders and the Oxford Textbook of Psychotherapy. She has written extensively on a cognitive behavioral approach to weight loss, including The Beck Diet Solution and two other books for consumers. She is the co-developer of the Beck Youth Inventories and the Personality Belief Questionnaire and has produced several DVDs of CBT therapy sessions. She educates the professional and lay public through mainstream media (print, radio, and television interviews) and social media, including CBT newsletters and blogs, Facebook, You-Tube, Twitter, and LinkedIn and the Beck Institute websites, which have over a hundred thousand visitors a year.   

     Dr. Beck is a founding fellow and past president of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy, a non-profit organization that certifies mental health professionals in cognitive therapy, and has been a consultant for several NIMH research studies.

Renée M. Popovits is a practicing corporate health care attorney who received her law degree from DePaul University College of Law, with honors. Her law firm provides services to behavioral health providers across the country.  She has lectured and published extensively on healthcare on issues and is a popular speaker at national conferences.  Her focus is primarily on substance abuse confidentiality, HIPAA, child welfare issues, ethical issues and corporate compliance.  

Her publications include: Critical Incidents; Disclosure Dilemmas: Legal Compliance for Counselors, Addiction Counseling Review (2005); portions of NAATP Managed Care Toolkit (2006); Ethical Guidelines for the Delivery of Peer-based Recovery Support Services (2007); Adolescent Substance Abuse: Psychiatric Co-morbidity & High Risk Behaviors (2008); a three volume set of HIPAA guidelines; and a video on federal confidentiality regulations.  She is a Board member for (“NAATP”) and she serves on the Governor’s State University Addiction Studies Advisory Board, the Illinois Division of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Women’s Committee, and is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association.  She is a recipient of the Compassion in Action Award.