I'm a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 45 years experience, primarily in community mental health working with couples and families as a clinician, supervisor and clinical director. My work is grounded in cognitive-behavioral therapy and systems theory with a heavy emphasis on changing dysfunctional patterns and behaviors in everyday life. My style is highly interactive, often humorous, and tends to be short-term — once we figure out what you need to do to better run your life, it's about doing it and then fine-tuning.

I'm also a writer. I've published 11 books including several new editions and even translations: Doing Couples Therapy: Craft and Creativity in Work with Intimate Partners Doing Family Therapy: Craft and Creativity in Clinical Practice Clinical Supervision: A Four-Stage Process of Growth and Discovery Clinical Social Work Supervision: Practice & Process Boot Camp Therapy: Action-Oriented Brief Clinical Approaches to Anxiety, Anger & Depression Brief Therapy with Couples & Families in Crisis The Art of the First Session Process-Focused Therapy: Guide to Effective Clinical Outcomes

In addition to my books, I write a regular online column for Psychology Today magazine entitled Fixing Families www.psychologytoday.com/blog/fixing-families, which has almost 300 articles and received over 7 million views, as well as a monthly parenting advice column for the regional magazine Bloom. I've also published over 300 magazine and journal articles, contributed several book chapters including the Encyclopedia of Couple & Family Therapy and Favorite Counseling Techniques: 55 Masters Share Their Secrets which graciously cited me among the top 100 therapists in the country. I've served as teen advice columnist for Current Health, a contributing editor to Your Health and Fitness, and am a contributing expert to Howtodate.com and Marriage.com. Along the way I've received 3 national writing awards for Best Consumer Health Writing.

I also love to teach. I travel nationally doing workshops for clinicians on couple therapy, family therapy, brief therapy, and clinical supervision. I'm a graduate of Rutgers University and the University of South Carolina, and have served as adjunct professor at several universities. I'm currently in private practice in Charlottesville, Virginia with Lewis Weber & Associates: weberpsychotherapy.com Now thoroughly revised, this practical, user-friendly guide has helped thousands of novice couple therapists and students to navigate the challenges of clinical work with couples in conflict. Robert Taibbi presents effective strategies for rapidly identifying a couple's core issues and conducting each stage of therapy, from the first sessions to termination. Rich with sensitive case material, the book features end-of-chapter exercises that help readers identify and develop their own strengths as practitioners. Appendices include reproducible client handouts that can be downloaded and printed in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size.