Dr. Foojan Zeine is an International Speaker, Author, and Psychotherapist. She has her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology and is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist. She has obtained a graduate certificate in the Topic of Human Behavior from the Harvard Extension School (HES). Her expertise is in Intimate Relations and Addictive Behaviors. She has extensive experience treating Depression, Anxiety, Traumas, and Domestic Violence. Foojan presents internationally and is a leading expert in Online Therapy. She has published numerous research articles in psychology and human behavior. She is the originator and the author of Awareness Integration Theory (AIT), a multi-modality Psychology and Educational approach and intervention toward minimizing Depression and anxiety while improving Self-esteem and Self-confidence. She founded the International Awareness Integration Institute, which conducts training workshops to educate and certify psychotherapists, coaches, and teachers in this approach. She is the co-founder of “Foojan” App offering AIT to the public globally. She teaches AIT as a lecturer/ professor at the California State University Long Beach and Université Paris Cité. She is the author and co-author of 6 books and ten peer-reviewed journal publications. She hosts the Inner Voice – A Heartfelt Chat with Dr. Foojan Podcast. She is a guest speaker at many universities, including Harvard, MIT, UCLA, USC, UC Santa Barbara, Chicago University, and Cal State Long Beach.
Dr. Jafari is an associate professor in the Department of Applied Clinical Psychology at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology. Her teaching experience spans multidisciplinary and cross-cultural developmental psychology and humanities courses from prenatal to life span. She has published and co-authored numerous research articles and textbooks in various scientific and academic journals. Dr. Jafari is the founder and president of the Global Growth Institute (GGI), Inc., in Southern California, offering counseling, coaching, mentoring, and consulting services. Her professional training as a professional and master coach in developmental areas enables her to offer services to all age groups, including topics on parenting and individual growth. She is an international public speaker on children, youths, and families in today’s multi-cultural and multi-contextual environment. She addresses developmental milestones, mass media and addiction, globalization, cultural competency, diversity, and effective parenting. Her active involvement in developmental psychology is further demonstrated by her weekly radio, television, and media broadcast programs on developmental, social, and psychological topics. In other capacities, she has worked or is currently serving as a scientific and /or advisory board member on several prestigious organizations, including 1) Scientific Advisory Board Member: @ JC House Recovery & Counseling Centers, 2) Editorial Board Member @ ACCScience Publishing, 3) Scientific Advisory Board Member @ TRANSPLICEGEN, LLC, and 4) Advisory Board Member – TREAT California.
Dr. Madani earned a Doctorate degree in Clinical Psychology in Los Angeles, California. She is licensed by the California Board of Psychology, and a licensed Medical Doctor from TUMS, Iran. With the background in Medicine, she earned strong clinical observation skills and established diagnoses based on reasoning foundation. Her approach is empathic, compassionate, collaborative and evidence based. She helps people access and build on their strengths, develop resiliency and increase emotional intelligence. Her unique therapeutic style let the clients tap into their strengths and develop their internal resources. Dr. Hila finds great beauty and joy in the work that she does. She works collaboratively with you to create an empowering, positive and life-altering therapeutic experience, towards LASTING CHANGES. Qualifications: Doctorate degree in Clinical Psychology, Certified Supervisor and Psychotherapist in Awareness Integration Theory (AIT), Emotion-Focused psychotherapist (EFT), Member of the Awareness Integration Institute (AIT), Member of the International Society for Emotion-Focused Therapy (ISEFT)
Dr. Manoukian is an international parenting coach/mentor, an early childhood educator in private practice, and the founder/director of Gem Educare, a childcare establishment/preschool in Los Angeles, California. She has more than 15 years of experience in business coaching, banking, and finance. She found her calling in life while she volunteered as a teacher and caregiver in a facility for low income, homeless, or orphaned children in South Africa. After realizing her calling, she began researching and observing early childhood programs and teaching methods during her travels around the world. Dr. Manoukian earned her doctoral degree from Walden University specializing in Early Childhood Education. She is a member of Mensa, NAEYC, NAFCC, and Zero to Three. She was involved as a youth mentor with the Big Brother – Big Sister organization for over 10 years and Girl Scouts for over 15 years. Dr. Manoukian values diverse educational programs due to having lived and worked in five countries and speaking five languages as she engaged in the community. Her research interests include the importance of emotional intelligence in young children, social-emotional learning (SEL) skills in young children, and how early childhood educators support children’s school readiness skills. She is the co-hosts for a television and radio parenting show and frequently appears as an expert consultant on several other shows.
Nastaran Adibrad, Psychotherapist, author, Public Speaker, host of podcast has her doctorate in counselling and psychothe rapy from ITT in 2004. She is a Registered Psychotherapist in Ontario Canada, CRPO, APA, OAMHP and Certified Canadian Counselor and Psychotherapist (CCCP). She has experience in Intimate Relations, Premarital Counselling, Pre and Post-Divorce Counseling. She has also specialty in Parenting, Self- Esteem, Anger Management, Depression, Anxiety and Traumas, Lost and Grief, Stress Reduction, Conflict Resolution Career and Education. Dr. Adibrad is a Certified Awareness Integration Therapy (AIT). She is also expert in Transactional Analysis, Acceptance and commitment Therapy (ACT), Healing Inner Child, Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), Behavior Modification, and Emotional Intelligence.
She is the founder of “Familyschool.ca” which is a virtual Psycho-educational Website.
She has published more than 100 articles and 150 presentations in international and local community groups and conferences.
Dr. Alaei is a global health policy expert who has been working in conservative social settings for two decades in several countries in the Middle East and Central Asia. He studied medicine, epidemiology, international health, health policy, and international human rights law at prestigious universities such as Harvard and Oxford. He and his brother Arash co-founded the first ‘Triangular Clinic’ for three target groups in Iran (drug users, HIV patients, and STD cases), documented by the World Health Organization as a ‘Best Practice Model’. Dr. Alaei has authored and co-authored numerous peer-reviewed journal articles in prestigious publications including the Lancet Global Health, the British Medical Journal and AIDS. He has been featured and interviewed by major academic journals such as Nature, Science, and The Lancet.
Dr. Barkhordari is a dedicated and compassionate professional bringing more than thirty-five years of education and rich experience working with children and families from initial employment in preschools as both teacher and director to the culmination of mastery as a Child and Adolescent Development Specialist and Marriage and Family Therapist. She is passionate about working with individuals, couples, and families to help them resolve any issues arising from mental, emotional, and or relational challenges. The work close to her heart is to help clients heal from childhood and past traumas and preventing children from enduring traumatic everyday life experiences. Therefore child, adolescent, and individual well-being; and couple and parenting therapy is at the center of her practice.
Kenneth Blum is a well-known American Scientist recognized for his work related to Psychopharamcology and Psychiatric Genetics. He received a B. Sc. degree in Pharmaceutical Science from Columbia University (NYC); a master’s in medicine from New Jersey College of Medicine (Rutgers) and a PhD in Neuropharmacology from New York Medical College. He is the recipient of many honors and awards including the Marquis Who’s Who -Distinguished Top Professional to be featured in the Wall Street Journal. DR. Blum has published over 730 peer reviewed articles, book chapters and meeting abstracts with 17 books with over 17,000 citations and 185,000 reads worldwide. He has distinguished himself and credited with the first genetic association of the Dopamine D2 receptor gene and severe alcoholism published in JAMA, 1990. He is considered by some to be the Father of Psychiatric Genetics. In 1995, Dr. Blum coined the term “Reward Deficiency Syndrome(RDS)” and developed the USA and Foreign patented “Genetic Addiction Risk Severity”(GARS) test. Dr. Blum has also developed patented Pro-dopamine regulators int USA and Europe. His overall patent portfolio consists of 100 patents worldwide. Dr. Blum is the Editor -in-Chief on a number of academic journals including Current Psychopharmacology , Addiction Psychiatry, and Theranostic and Pharmacological Sciences. He also serves as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Psychiatry and Frontiers in Public Health both related to the section on Substance Use Disorder and Genes, Protein & disease. He is also serving as guest EIC on a collective for Psychology & Psychological Management and Cellular Molecular Neurobiology. He serves on 23 peer reviewed journals and is regional editor for Current Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology. Dr. Blum is also the founding President of the United Scientific Group, an academic publishing house. His work has been featured in all the major media outlets worldwide and in 1990 his work on genetics was in the top 25 most important discoveries in science by Discovery Magazine. He is the recipient on NIH grants and has been awarded Lifetime Achievements, distinguished Honorary Doctors of Humane Letters ; Life-time Honorary Professor at ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary and Distinguished Honorary Professor at Adelson School of Medicine, Ariel University, Israel. Currently, besides faculty positions as adjunct professor (Western University , University of Vermont, Wright School of Medicine), he is the Executive Chairman and CEO of TranspliceGen Therapeutics, Inc. Standford university credited him as top 2% World Best scientist list (2023). DR. Blum also serves on a number of scientific boards including the Center for Advanced Spine Care of Southern Arizona, Cross-Cultural Research and Educational Institute, Awareness Integration.
Foojan Inc. CTO/Co-founder
Sam Changizi has more than 30 years of diverse technical and strategic leadership in the areas of highly engineered systems, cloud technologies, ecommerce, product/application development and financial management. A winner of the 2017 Oracle Technology Innovation Excellence award, he has played an important role in many technological and engineering achievements.
Dr. Mohammad Nami is the Director of the Brain, Cognition, and Behavior Unit at BrainHub UAE. He currently functions as Assistant Professor of Cognitive Neuropsychology and Neuroscience at the Department of Social Sciences, Canadian University Dubai. Dr. Nami is an associate member of the Harvard Medical School Alumni, and member of the Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs. His main areas of research and clinical practice are medical/cognitive neuroscience, cognitive neuropsychology, neuroscience of sleep, neuro-cognitive fitness, neurological aspects of sleep disorders and related interventions. He believes that mental health and sleep health awareness need to be copromoted as one does not come without the other. As such, his career has been dedicated to helping people awaken to their true nature and infinite brain/cognitive, and affective potentials to maintain better sleep and mental aptitude. Number of Peer Reviewed Publications: 163, Number of Citations 2452
Mary Barbara Trube is an Educational Consultant with the Mentoring Institute at The University of New Mexico. She is the co-founder of Platonium Mentoring and Coaching Consultants in Los Angeles, CA, and a dissertation mentor at Walden University in the US. She is an academic contributor and editor for English Immersion curriculum and resources sponsored by the China, Canada, United States English Immersion research collaborative in the PRC. She is professor emerita of education at Ohio University. Dr. Trube has more than 50-years of experience in the field of education as a classroom teacher, curriculum specialist, and administrator; higher education faculty, program coordinator, and Assistant Dean for Academic Engagement and Outreach in a research-active college of education. Her academic background in education, leadership, and mentoring, includes doctorate and masters’ degrees from The University of Texas at Austin and UT system campuses. Her publications, conference presentations, and workshops for the past two decades have focused on mentoring, coaching, writing, creativity, education diplomacy, and transformational leadership in national and international contexts.
