Harvard-trained Psychiatrist and world-recognised authority DR JAMES GORDON is a former researcher at the National Institute of Mental Health and a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine at Georgetown Medical School. He writes regularly for numerous publications including The New York Times and The Washington Post - he is a sought-after expert for such outlets as The Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, Nightline, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, 60 Minutes and many leading national newspapers and magazines.

In his role as the founder and director of The Center for Mind-Body Medicine (CMBM), the world's largest and most effective program for healing trauma, Dr James Gordon has taught a curriculum that has alleviated trauma to populations as diverse as refugees and survivors of war in Bosnia, Kosovo, Israel, Gaza, and Syria, as well as Native Americans on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, New York city firefighters and their families, and members of the US military. Dr Gordon and his team have also used their work to help everyday professionals, stay-at-home mothers, White House officials, medical students and people struggling with severe emotional and physical illnesses.