Speaker
Bill Doherty, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Family Social Science at The University of Minnesota. He directs the Minnesota Couples on the Brink Project, which developed “discernment counseling” for couples on the brink of divorce, and The Citizen Professional Center, which does community engagement projects on health care and divisive public issues. Following the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, he co-founded Braver Angels. This citizen initiative uses couples therapy principles to bring conservatives and liberals together to counteract political polarization and restore the fraying social fabric in American society. Among Bill’s awards is the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Family Therapy Academy. His latest book is The Ethical Lives of Clients: Transcending Self-Interest in Psychotherapy, to be published in October 2021 by the American Psychological Association.