Dr. Ellen F. Wachtel

Dr. Ellen Wachtel, author of two highly influential books for professional therapists, is widely known in the field of marriage and family therapy. She has a Ph.D. in psychology and a law degree from Harvard Law School. She has taught at the Ackerman Institute for Family Therapy, New York University, the City University of New York, and New York City's St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital. Married for more than thirty years and the mother of two grown children, she lives in New York City.