Making Real Love Happen: The New Era of Intimacy

Joyce Buckner, Ph.D., is internationally recognized as a leading authority on relationships, intimacy, and the dialogical process. A licensed psychologist and marriage and family therapist in private practice for more than 30 years, Dr. Buckner has worked extensively with hundreds of couples in intimate relationships and individuals struggling with relationship issues. Having made seminal contributions to the theory and practice of Imago Relationship Therapy, she has now developed her own modelThe New ERA of Intimacy. In the last 20 years, Dr. Buckner has trained mental health providers from around the globe in relationship therapy. She appears as a relationship expert on international radio and television talk shows, including The Oprah Winfrey Show. Dr. Buckner is also a former professor and academic department head at the University of Texas at Arlington. She is certified by the Council for the National Registry of Health Service Providers in Psychology, is past president of the international Association for Imago Relationship Therapy, and is listed in Whos Who of the World. She and her husband, Sanford Reitman, M.D., have six adult children and eight grandchildren and live on a ranch west of Fort Worth, Texas. Dr. Buckner can be reached at joyce@joycebuckner.com.