Dr. Frances K. Trotman received her PhD in Counseling Psychology from Columbia University, and has been in private practice for over twenty-five years. She has been a teacher, social worker, and community organizer. Dr. Trotman is currently an Associate Professor, and Director of the Graduate Program in Psychological Counseling for the Psychology Department at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey. She is also the founder/director of A Contemporary Counseling and Psychotherapy Institute, with offices in New Jersey. Dr. Trotman has been president of New Jersey Association of Black Psychologists and the Bergen County Association of Licensed Psychologists. She has served in many… offices and on numerous boards of the American Psychological Association and its divisions. She has been a consulting reviewer for "Psychotherapy", the journal for division 29 of the American Psychological Association, and for the "Journal of Black Psychology "for the National Association of Black Psychologists. She has received the Psychologist's Recognition Awards, and has numerous national and international professional awards, presentations and publications.