Scott D. Miller, Ph.D. is a co-founder of the International Center for Clinical Excellence, an international consortium of clinicians, researchers, and educators dedicated to promoting excellence in behavior health. Dr. Miller offers training in the United States and broad, helping hundreds of agencies and organizations, both public and private, to achieve superior results.  He is one of a handful of invited faculty whose work, thinking, and research is featured at the prestigious Evolution of Psychotherapy Conference. His humorous and engaging presentation style and command of the research literature consistently inspires practitioners, administrators, and policy makers to make effective changes inservice delivery. Scott is the author of numerous articles and co-author of Working with the Problem Drinker: A Solution Focused Approach (with Insoo Berg [Norton,1992]), The Miracle Method: A Radically New Approach to Problem Drinking (with Insoo Kim Berg [Norton, 1995]), Finding the Adult Within: A Solution-FocusedSelf-Help Guide (with Barbara McFarland [Brief Therapy Center Press, 1995]), Handbook of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: Foundations, Applications, and Research (with Mark Hubble and Barry Duncan [Jossey-Bass, 1996]), Escape from Babel: Toward a Unifying Language for Psychotherapy Practice (with Mark Hubbleand Barry Duncan [Norton, 1997]), Psychotherapy with Impossible Cases: Efficient Treatment of Therapy Veterans (with Mark Hubble and Barry Duncan[Norton, 1997]), The Heart and Soul of Change (with Mark Hubble and BarryDuncan [APA Press, 1999] and Bruce Wampold [2 nd Edition, 2010]), The Heroic Client: A Revolutionary Way to Improve Effectiveness through Client-Directed, Outcome-Informed Therapy (with Barry Duncan [Jossey-Bass, 2000], and JacquelineSparks [Revised, 2004]), The ICCE Feedback Informed Treatment and TrainingManuals (ICCE Press, 2012), The Cycle of Excellence (Wiley, 2017), Feedback Informed Treatment (APA, 2017), and Better Results: Using Deliberate Practice to Improve Therapeutic Effectiveness (APA, 2020).

Birgit is a trained psychologist from NTNU and a specialist in clinical psychology (children and adolescents). Throughout her career, she has had a strong interest in feedback and has taught Feedback Informed Treatment (FIT)since 2006. She also has extensive experience giving lectures and teaching at conferences and seminars within the field of mental health. After completing her education in 2005, Birgit worked for the first five years in specialist health services, and later in municipal services. Until September 2019, she was the head of Stangehjelpa in Stange Municipality, a service built on the foundation of user feedback. In 2016, she received the Psychologist Award from the Norwegian Psychological Association for her work at Stangehjelpa and for challenging authorities and asking critical questions. She also received the Freedom of Speech Award in Mental Health Care in 2021. Birgit has written articles, opinion pieces, and newspaper columns. Her book Videre – Hvordan psykiske helsetjenester kan bli bedre was published in 2014. It was later published in English in collaboration with David Prescott in 2019 under the title Beyond BestPractice – How Mental Health Services Can Be Better. In 2022, she co-authored the book Hjelp som hjelper. Psykisk helsetjeneste med lavterskel together with her former colleagues at Stangehjelpa. Birgit teaches, supervises, and gives lectures. In addition, she holds a 20% position at Sortlandshjelpa in Sortland Municipality, where she coordinates the national Hjelpanettverket. She also has a small clinical practice in Hamar. She is the editor-in-chief of the online magazine Mad in Norway.

Susanne Bargmann has for many years been involved in the International Center for Clinical Excellence (ICCE) in leading roles. A clinical psychologist with over two decades of experience, she is internationally recognized for her expertise in helping practitioners and organizations implement feedback-informed treatment (FIT). Known for her engaging teaching style, clarity, and practical focus, she has inspired professionals across the globe to improve outcomes and deliver helpful services. She is the author of two best-selling Scandinavian volumes on FIT and Deliberate Practice, Feedback Informed Treatment: En Grundbog and Bliv Bedre – medfokuseret træning, and co-author of the newly released Feedback InformedTreatment: A Treatment, Training and Implementation Manual. In addition, she publishes regularly on both FIT and Deliberate Practice, bridging research and real-world clinical application.

Kim de Jong earned her doctoral degree in clinical psychology from Leiden University in 2012. Before that, she received her master degree in clinical psychology and in psychological methods at the University of Amsterdam in 2000. After graduating from the UvA, she started working as an applied researcher at GGZ Noord-Holland-Noord, a mental health care institution in the Netherlands. During that period, she visited Michael J. Lambert at Brigham Young University for four months. She started as an Assistant Professor in Clinical Psychology at Leiden University in 2013, but received the NWO Rubi congrant that year, which provided her with the opportunity of a VisitingScholarship at the University of Pennsylvania, where she worked with Robert J.DeRubeis. Since September 2014, she is back in Leiden as Assistant Professor in Clinical Psychology. She also has a small private practice. Her research focuses on understanding differences in treatment outcomes between organizations, therapists and patients, as well as developing and testing interventions that improve outcomes in routine clinical practice. Kim has two major research lines: personalized mental health care and therapist effects. In personalized mental health treatments are tailored towards the individual patient, based on their characteristics. Kim works with large databases of outcome measurements to predict which interventions work best for which patients. The therapist effects research line focuses on assessing why certain therapists perform better than others. She also investigates interventions that aid therapists to offer more effective care, such as Routine Outcome Monitoring (ROM) feedback, deliberate practice and training therapeutic skills.

Daryl Chow, MA, Ph.D. (Psych) is a practicing psychologist and trainer. He is a senior associate of the International Center for Clinical Excellence (ICCE). He devotes his time to training therapists worldwide and research on the development of expertise and highly effective psychotherapists, helping practitioners become deep learners and improve client outcomes.  Daryl is the author of several articles and books. Daryl and colleagues published the first ever study on deliberate practice in psychotherapy, a nominee for “mostvaluable paper” of 2015 by American Psychological Association. In 2025, his study on Improving Responses to Challenging Scenarios in Therapy appeared in APA’s Editor’s Choice, regarded as“...the best science in each area of our discipline, reflecting science that is exceptionally important, impactful, and deserves additional visibility for the whole field.”Daryl’s blog, Frontiers of Psychotherapist Development (darylchow.substack.com) is aimed at inspiring and sustaining practitioner’s individualised professional development. See Daryl’s keynote in Sweden. His other Substack is Full Circles (fullcircles.substack.com/):Reflections on the inner and outer life.

Wolfgang Lutz, Ph.D. completed his doctorate in Psychology at the University of Heidelberg, Germany (1997), post-doctorates at Northwestern University, USA and the University of Berne (1999), and a research professorship at the University of Berne, Switzerland (2004. He is full professor(since 2007) and chair of the Division of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at the University of Trier, Germany as well as director of the clinicaltraining program and outpatient research clinic at the University of Trier. He has authored more than 400 publications (peer- reviewed papers, chapters, and books) including work on demonstrating the benefits of classifying different trajectories of treatment change and illustrating how decision-support tools can be targeted to different patient groups. He is one of the pioneers of patient-focused and feedback research and has worked in the field of practice-oriented and practice based evidence in several countries for over 25 years. He has contributed over 600 presentations on the topic. He is a past editor of Psychotherapy Research (the official journal of SPR), a co-editor of the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology; Behavior Therapy and the German Journal of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, and has served or serves on the editorial board of several international journals in the field (e.g.,Clinical Psychological Science, Psychotherapy, Cognitive Therapy and Research, Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, Journal of Clinical Psychology). He was president of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR) from 2022-2023 and has been recognized by various awards and fellowships, including the SPR’s Early Career Contribution Award and distinguished research and leader recognition from the Association for Psychological Science (APS). Alongside Michael Barkham and Louis Castonguay, he is one of the editors of the 7th edition of Bergin & amp; Garfield’s Handbook of Psychotherapy and BehaviorChange.

Will Dobud, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) of Social Work with Charles Sturt University (Australia) and a co-founder of the Outdoor Therapy Centre for Research and Practice. Will began working with outdoortherapy organisations in 2005 across the United States and Australia, including experiences in Norway, and co-founded True North Expeditions, Inc., a non-profit in Adelaide, South Australia, providing therapy services for adolescents and families. He is an award-winning researcher and university educator. His research focuses on improving clients’ experiences in psychotherapy and care, and his writing spans improving outcomes, ethics, and safety. Will is the co-editor of Outdoor Therapies (Routledge,2020) and Solution-Focused Practice in Outdoor Therapy (2022, Routledge). Will is also the co-author of Kids These Days:Understanding and Supporting Youth Mental Health (2025, New SocietyPublishers).

Bruce E. Wampold Ph.D., ABPP, who received his PhD in counseling psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, is Emeritus Professor of Counseling Psychology at the University of Wisconsin—Madison and is Chief-Scientist and a founder of Skillsetter.com, an electronic platform for the deliberate practice of interpersonal skills.  He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, is Board Certified in Counseling Psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology, and is the recipient of the 2007 Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research Award from the American Psychological Association, the 2015 Distinguished Research Career Award from the Society for Psychotherapy Research, and the 2019 Gold Medal Award for Life Achievement in the Application of Psychology from the American Psychological Foundation.  He has proposed a Contextual Model of Psychotherapy, which is summarized in The Great Psychotherapy Debate: The Evidence for What Makes Psychotherapy Work.  

Magnus Johansson is a researcher. social worker, certified counsellor,certified FIT trainer as well as MINT trainer with a PhD in social work. He hasworked most of his career with addiction and is now working asmanager at e-stöd, digital interventions. His research has mainly beenfocused on the effects of digital interventions.
‍Niklas Waitong is a qualified social worker, ICCE certifiedtrainer as well as a solutionfocused trainer. He has been workingwith troubled youth in 24 hour care for almost 40 years and has been usingFIT since 2000.