Leadership
GAINS Working Board of Directors
The Working Board stewards the organization's mission, programs, and operations. GAINS is run by volunteers; if you would like to help, get in touch.
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Kirke Olson, PsyD
President
“I’ve been applying IPNB (The science of being human!) in schools, psychotherapy, healthcare worker training, guided forest therapy, and through out my whole life since we started GAINS back in 2005.”
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Gregory John Czyszczon, PhD, LPC
Vice President
Gregory Czyszczon, Ph.D., LPC is a counselor, clinical supervisor, and educator. In addition to his private counseling practice, he is an Adjunct Professor at James Madison University where he…
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Lauren Culp, LMFT
Treasurer
Lauren Martin Culp, LMFT is a licensed marriage and family therapist in private practice in Santa Monica, California. With colleagues, she co-founded the non-profit Global Association for…
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Cherie Dikelsky, ACC, ECPC
Secretary
“Where outcomes matter, applied IPNB matters. I’m so grateful to the GAINS community, and I’m honored to serve on the board that sustains its work.”
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Jonathan Sibley, MSW, MBA
Board Member
Jonathan Sibley MSW, MBA is a psychotherapist, executive coach, team coach and coaching supervisor based in New York City. Across the spectrum of psychotherapy and coaching, Jonathan works…
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Deborah Armstrong, PhD, LMFT-S, RPT-S, REAT, REACE
Board Member
“I was introduced to IPNB at the 1999 Decade of the Brain Conference where I sat in the front row, listening deeply to this new and yet very familiar landscape of knowledge and wisdom that has…
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Lynda Klau, PhD
Board Member
Even as a young girl growing up in Brooklyn, New York, I knew I longed for something that escaped my knowing. One day, when I was 28 years old, I found what I was looking for, spontaneously, and it…
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Past board members and contributors
GAINS is grateful to the people who have served on the board and led its programs over the years.