Arash Javanbakht, MD., is the director of the Stress, Trauma, and Anxiety Research Clinic (STARC) at Wayne State University. Dr Javanbakht and his work have been featured on the National Geographic, The Atlantic, CNN, Aljazeera, NPR, Washington Post, Smithsonian, PBS, American Psychiatric Association, Anxiety and Depression Association of America, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and tens of other media. His clinical and research work is mainly focused on anxiety trauma related disorders.

Patricia Thornton, PhD specializes in the treatment of anxiety disorders and OCD. She practices in New York City.

Dr. Lindsay Israel is a board-certified psychiatrist. Her goal is to help patients feel empowered, because their symptoms can leave them feeling powerless. She specializes in Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) therapy for the treatment of various psychiatric disorders. TMS is FDA-approved for depression and is a non-invasive, non-medication alternative to traditional treatments. Dr.

ADAA Member Shane Owens is an award-winning, board-certified behavioral and cognitive psychologist. Dr. Owens specializes in treating young adults and parents with anxiety problems, anger issues, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. He is the Assistant Director of Campus Mental Health Services at Farmingdale State College, a campus of the State University of New York.

Dr. Stefanie Russman Block is a postdoctoral fellow at Michigan State University.  She completed her doctoral training at the University of Michigan and her clinical internship at Brown University here she received specialized training in the treatment of anxiety, OCD, hoarding, PTSD, and substance use.

Dr. M. Katherine Shear is the Marion E. Kenworthy Professor of Psychiatry and the founding Director of the Center for Prolonged Grief at Columbia University School of Social Work. Dr. Shear is a clinical researcher who first worked in anxiety and depression. For the past 25 years, she has focused on understanding and treating people who experience persistent, intense grief, which is now an official diagnosis called Prolonged Grief Disorder in the ICD-11 and DSM-5.

Dr. Natalia Skritskaya is a researcher and clinical psychologist who was a member of the team that started the Center for Complicated Grief at Columbia University. Natalia is a cognitive-behavioral therapist who has been involved in research on complicated grief for a decade with a particular interest in the role of maladaptive thoughts.

Jennifer Shannon, LMFT is a cognitive-behavioral therapist and author specializing in anxiety disorders. She is the co-founder of the Santa Rosa Center for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and the author of The Anxiety Virus, Don't Feed The Monkey Mind, The Anxiety Survival Guide for Teens and The Shyness and Social Anxiety Workbook for Teens. All published by New Harbinger Press. 

Angelina F. Gomez, M.A. is a doctoral student in clinical psychology at Boston University, working with Dr. Stefan Hofmann.

Stefan G. Hofmann, PhD is Professor of Psychology at the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Boston University.