Don Elium, MA MFT, is a licensed Marriage & Family Psychotherapist in Walnut Creek, CA (San Francisco Bay Area, usa) specializing in post-traumatic stress and dealing with difficult emotional issues that interfere in relationship and parent/child situations. He uses Be Set Free Fast [BSFF] and EMDR-Eye Movement Desensitizaion and Reprocessing to reduce and eliminate recurrent emotional and physical upset and discomfort.

Don brings his therapy training experience and story-telling humor to national keynote speeches/workshop and is a regular contributor to TV, Radio, newspaper, and magazine shows and articles (including CNN, CBS, NBC, ABC, Dick Clark's "The Other Half", Discovery Health Channel's Berman & Berman, CBS Gordon Elliot Daytime Talk Show, NY Times, LA Times Magazine, Washington Times, Dallas News, Newsweek, Wall Street Journal). He is a consultant to corporations in the field of critical incident debriefing and treatment. He also trains adults in rapid relief of emotional distress using BSFF-Be Set Free Fast. Don also is a JFK University psychology and therapy instructor, as well as a father to a son and angel to a step-daughter.

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Don@DonElium.com

Jeanne Elium, M.A., is a California Distinguished Woman Writer Award winning author and  a parent/child development specialist.  She has been a parenting and family expert for America Online/iVilliage's Parent Soup, the world's largest and most visited parenting website.   She has also written for the website project Cheerios' Kids, sponsored by General Mills.  She is the lead writer with her husband Don, of four bestselling parenting books.

She is quoted in many articles in Redbook, Family Life Magazine, Newsweek, Family Circle, Sesame Street Magazine, and newspapers around the country.  She has been an instructor at John F. Kennedy University; worked as a trainer for the state of Idaho; and was an elementary school teacher, and a women's health and personal growth counselor.  While she researches material for the Elium's next book, she also coaches writers wishing to publish their work. You can contact her at

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Jeanne@JeanneElium.com