Dr. Derrick Paladino is the author and co-writer for a 2022 Introduction to Counseling text with Springer Publishing Company, which focuses on advocacy, social justice, and intersectionality. In addition, he has a recently released video series with Psychotherapy.net. This video focuses on the Hybrid Model of Crisis Counseling – where he demonstrates this brief counseling model with a real client. Dr. Paladino both teaches and practices, in the field of brief counseling, as a full professor of counseling and department chair at Rollins College as well as a private practitioner. His clinical practice centers around brief counseling practices and he teaches brief theory, principles, and practice in his counseling, practicum, and internship courses. He also serves as an executive board member of the American College Counseling Association. Finally, he is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) and qualified supervisor (QS) of Florida, and a nationally certified counselor (NCC).

Caitlyn McKinzie Bennett is an Associate Professor of Counseling at Rollins College. She also serves as the Director of the Rollins College Cornell Counseling Clinic (CCC) whereby she provides supervision and guidance to graduate student interns who are providing brief counseling services to college student clients. Dr. Bennett also owns her own private practice where she works with individuals, couples, and relationships, through emotionally focused therapy (EFT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and family systems therapeutic approaches. She has publication experience including work that focuses on using ACT to meet the developmental and emotional needs of transgender adolescents. Dr. Bennett has served as an editorial board member for the American College Counseling Association (ACCA). She is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC), licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) and qualified supervisor (QS) of Florida, a licensed professional counselor (LPC) of Texas, and a nationally certified counselor (NCC).