ADVISORY Board Members

• Susan Gere
  Co-Director of the Institute for Body, Mind and Spirituality
  Professor and Division Director of Counseling and Psychology
• Mitchell Kossak
  Co-Director of the Institute for Body, Mind and Spirituality
  Assistant Professor and Division Director of Expressive Therapies
• Julia Byers, Ph.D.
  Professor and Coordinator of Art Therapy Specialization, Division of Expressive Therapies, Lesley University
• Rafael Campo, M.D.
  Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
• Susan DeCristofaro, R.N., M.S., O.C.N.
  Susan DeCristofaro, RN, MS, OCN, is the Director of Patient Family Education at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Susan provides leadership for institute Patient Family Education initiatives, which often include national initiatives. She also oversees the Creative Arts program which hosts drama, music, humor, creative writing and visual art. As a reiki practitioner, she currently is a co-investigator for a reiki study with the Lenny P. Zakim Center for Integrated Therapy. Susan is a past chair for the National Cancer Institute, Cancer Patient Education Network and a member of the present NCI CPEN Steering Committee. On a national level Susan has received the Oncology Nursing Society Amgen Excellence in Patient/Public Education Award. Her international presentations include Sydney, Australia and Venice, Italy. Susan most recently received recognition for her community outreach initiative introducing the Blum Resource Center thirty-nine foot van. The Blum Family Resource Center van serves the greater Boston community offering education to prevent cancer. The Blum van, in it’s first year, offers prostate cancer PSA testing and skin cancer screening for persons of all ages.
• Lily Fessenden
  Assistant Professor and Program Director of Enivironmental Studies, Division of Interdisciplinary Inquiry, Lesley University

• Jared Kass, Ph.D.
  Professor and Coordinator of the Holistic Studies Specialization, Division of Counseling and Psychology, Lesley University
• Joan Klagsbrun, Ph.D.
  Joan Klagsbrun is a licensed psychologist with a private psychotherapy practice. She is the director of The Wellspring Center for Life Enhancement, a non-profit center which provides psychological support for individuals and families facing life-changing illness. She has also served for decades as part-time, and then adjunct faculty of Lesley University in the Graduate Counseling Psychology Division, and is also an adjunct faculty member at Andover Newton Theological School. Joan is a coordinator of the International Focusing Institute and presents Focusing, a mind/body method, nationally and internationally to psychotherapists, healthcare providers, and the public. She has published articles on Focusing in professional journals. She is on the advisory board of both The Focusing Institute and the National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine.
• Eric Leskowitz, M.D.
  Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
• Vivien Marcow Speiser, Ph.D.
  Dean, Lesley University
• Nathaniel Mays, Ph.D.
  Dean of Student Life and Academic Development, Lesley University
• Marion Nesbit, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor, Division of Interdisciplinary Inquiry, Lesley University
• Glenn Rothfeld, M.D.
  Whole Health New England
• Nancy Waring, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor, Division of Interdisciplinary Inquiry, Lesley University