About the Author

Anne K. Fishel, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Psychology, part-time, at the Harvard Medical School and Director of the Family and Couples Therapy Program at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, where she has won many teaching prizes from psychiatry residents and psychology interns. She also has a private practice focusing on clinical supervision and individual, couples, and family therapy.

Dr. Fishel is a cofounder of The Family Dinner Project, a nonprofit group that works online and in person to help families overcome the obstacles that get in the way of family dinners. She speaks, consults, and publishes widely on a range of issues to do with families and couples.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard University, she earned her doctorate in clinical psychology at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.

Dr. Fishel is the author of Treating the Adolescent in Family Therapy: A Developmental and Narrative Approach (Jason Aronson, 1999). She writes a blog on Psychologytoday.com, “The Digital Family,” and has also blogged about family issues for NPR and PBS. She is an editor for the Harvard Review of Psychiatry and Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice. She lives outside Boston with her husband and is the mother of two young adult sons.