Bruce Ecker and Laurel Hulley are the originators of coherence therapy and coauthors of the Coherence Therapy Practice Manual and Training Guide and Depth Oriented Brief Therapy: How to Be Brief When You Were Trained to Be Deep and Vice Versa. Ecker is codirector of the Coherence Psychology Institute, has taught graduate courses for many years, is an internationally prominent conference speaker, and has been in private practice since 1986. Hulley is director of education and paradigm development of the Coherence Psychology Institute and cofounder of the Julia Morgan Middle School for Girls in Oakland, California. Robin Ticic is director of training and development of the Coherence Psychology Institute and is in private practice near Cologne, Germany, specializing in clinical supervision and training of trauma therapists. She has conducted clinical workshops internationally, served as a psychologist for the Psychotraumatology Institute of the University of Cologne for many years, provides a low-fee counseling service for parents, and is author of the parenting guide How to Connect With Your Child, published in English and German.