Judith Needham is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a Doctorate in Psychology and Organizational Systems from Saybrook Graduate and Research Institute. She has been practicing as a clinical therapist since January 1986 and specializes in relationship issues, traumatic life experiences, from divorce to death through illness or tragedy, as well as mediation/conflict resolution for churches and other Christian organizations. In addition to her clinical work, she is Director of the Department of Marriage, Family and Child Counseling at Western Seminary in Los Gatos. For many years Judith served as an adjunct professor at Fuller Seminary (Pasadena) and Azusa Pacific University in their graduate schools of Psychology. She has taught and trained therapists, clergy and laity in family therapy in many foreign countries including Russia, Kazakhstan, Singapore and Thailand.