The Inner Critic Workbook

About the Author

Shawn Costello Whooley, PsyD, is a psychologist, behavior change coach, and peer-reviewed acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) trainer in private practice in Baltimore, MD. She also serves as a staff psychologist in the Trauma Recovery Program at the Baltimore VA Medical Center. Costello Whooley specializes in the use of evidence-based treatments for anxiety, trauma, and interpersonal relationship problems. She is also founder of Stillpoint Journeys, a coaching and training practice focused on moving the work of behavior change out of the office and into life by using extended hiking, horseback riding, and sailing treks to experience the processes of ACT in real time. Shawn provides ACT and contextual behavioral science (CBS) training internationally and in academic settings.

Holly Yates, MS, LCMHC, has been in private practice in North Carolina since 2004. She is trained in functional analytic psychotherapy (FAP), ACT, and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). She is a founding facilitator of the online ACT Peer Intervision Group sponsored through the Association of Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS), and a Certified FAP Trainer through the University of Washington. Yates has been a presenter of FAP and ACT at ACBS World Conferences since 2016, and continues to train both internationally and domestically. Yates was a plenary speaker at the ACBS Brazil Conference in 2021. She has coauthored a chapter on FAP and couples counseling which will be released in Argentina at the upcoming ACBS World Conference. Yates is on the board of ACL Global Project, and is a member of the Functional Analytic Psychotherapy International Board for Certification (FAP/CEP).

Foreword writer Mavis Tsai, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and senior research scientist at the University of Washington Center for Science of Social Connection. She is cofounder of FAP.