Sandra’s Bio

Sandra L. Brown, M.A., CEO of The Institute for Relational Harm Reduction & Public Pathology Education holds a Masters Degree in Counseling with a former specialization in personality disorders/pathology. She is a program development specialist, lecturer, community educator, and an award-winning author. Her books include the award winning Women Who Love Psychopaths: Inside the Relationships of Inevitable Harm with Psychopaths, Sociopaths & Narcissists as well as How to Spot a Dangerous Man Before You Get Involved, and Counseling Victims of Violence: A Handbook for Helping Professionals.

Sandra is recognized for her pioneering work on women’s issues related to relational harm with Cluster B/Axis II/Sociopathy/Pyschopathy disordered partners. She specializes in the development of Pathological Love Relationship training based on her books/products and helps womens organizations modify their survivor support services to include recognizing pathological love relationships.

Her books, CD’s, DVD’s, and other training materials have been used as curriculum in drug rehabs, women’s organizations and shelters, women’s jail and prison programs, school and college-based programs, inner city projects, and various psychology and sociology programs and distributed in almost every country of the world.

Her collaborative research on Women Who Love Psychopaths was presented at the Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy as well as The Ruth Ginsberg Lecture Series Women and The Law on Domestic Violence, and Domestic Violence Provider and Batterer Intervention Training in which her unique focus on Pathological Love Relationships has been featured.

She is a writer for Psychology Today and has been interviewed in magazines such as Seventeen. She has also provided consultation to film producers regarding Pathological Love Relationships dynamics based on her books.

Under her direction The Institute has developed a comprehensive online psychopathology magazine interviewing some of the country’s leading researchers on personality disorders and neurobiology, and an Advanced Community Education Program for professionals in Pathological Love Relationships utilizing The Institute’s Model of Care Approach with our team of Licensed Mental Health Professionals.

Sandra’s previous work included the founding and directing of Bridgework Counseling Center, a multi-faceted mental health treatment center with a team of Licensed Mental Health Counselors for Trauma Disorders, Treatment of Personality Disorders, and one of the country’s first long-term residential programs for women with Dissociative Identity Disorder. She was also worked as a specialist on a Woman’s Trauma Inpatient Hospital Program.

She is currently a writer for several large women’s websites, Psychology Today, Times Up! and The Institute’s magazine www.saferelationshipsmagazine.com. She is working on a new book about Cognitive Dissonance and Pathological Love Relationships.