Sandra L. Brown, MA, CEO
Sandra holds a Masters degree in Counseling and is a program development specialist, lecturer and community educator on pathological love relationships and domestic violence, and is 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 for professionals and survivor support services based on her books. 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.
Sandra’s Links:
Sandra’s Books:
- Women Who Love Psychopaths – print
- Women Who Love Psychopaths – e-book
- How to Spot a Dangerous Man – print
- How to Spot a Dangerous Man – workbook
- Counseling Victims of Violence – print
Institute Mission Collaborators
Sherri Renner, J.D.
Sherri Renner is a former litigator and a survivor of intimate relationships with Cluster-B disordered individuals. Sherri is the founder of LawYou America and its members-only Association for Pro Se Advancement. She dedicates her education and years of experience to assisting pro se (self-represented) litigants, especially other survivors who are caught up in legal battles with their former partners. She is a column writer for The Institute’s website and newsletter in which she addresses legal issues and pathological love relationships.
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Support Staff
Our support staff is a behind-the-scenes team comprised of survivors who have used our many products and services throughout their healing journey. With a number of years in recovery under their respective belts, they now wish to pay it forward by using their understanding of the harm done by pathological love relationships through helping us bring to you the specialized products and services that they feel were instrumental in their own recoveries. Their compassion and understanding comes through in all that they do — for us and for you.
Kathleen, Product Services Coordinator
Kathleen assists our clients on their path to recovery by coordinating our product distribution with all the places from which clients order our products–through our website, Amazon, etc. If you are finding hope and healing through utilizing Institute products, Kathleen made sure they fell into your hands. Rest assured, those products have been accompanied by Kathleen’s shared hope and prayer for your recovery.
Linda, Social Media Coordinator
Linda helps lead our clients on their path to recovery by coordinating their social media experiences and by assuring they can find Institute support online through numerous social media outlets. Linda chooses social media materials, creates memes, and posts the Institute’s educational and theory based material through Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Psychology Today and a number of other venues. If you have found support through our social media presence, Linda has posted every last bit of encouragement there for you!
Julie, Public Educators Partnership (PEP) Coordinator
Julie will be helping survivors find their path to recovery by coordinating our new and upcoming program created for professional and peer educators which will assist those seeking recovery to find consistent, correct, and complete pathology educational materials wherever they look on the web, not just on the Institute’s sites. We know you will find our Public Educators Partnership program to provide education and support in your recovery through many outlets and pages of other peer and professional educators. Julie will be collaborating with our social media neighbors to widen the reach of pathology education for all, so when the internet becomes saturated, it will be Julie who has brought that effort to survivors.
Nancy, Editing Coordinator
Nancy assists our clients get started on their path to recovery by making the messages by The Institute easy to read and crystal clear. Not an easy project–Nancy has been editing our huge Archived Library of Articles over the past couple of years bringing clarity to our (often) jumbled thoughts. If you find recovery principles you can use in our articles, it’s Nancy that has made them easy to grasp.
<Currently vacant> Counseling Center Coordinator
Our Counseling Center Coordinator directs our clients on their path to recovery by coordinating their care from the time of initial contact, through the assessment process, and into service and support placement whether it be via phone, 1:1 Intensives, or retreats. She provides administrative assistance to Jennifer Young for Survivor Support Services. If you are receiving services from The Institute, the Counseling Center Coordinator probably held your virtual hand to get you there!
Our Survivors, Grassroots Coordinators
Our readers of our website, articles, books, materials, Psychology Today and blog columns, and listeners to our radio, tv, and documentary shows direct other survivors searching for recovery help by creating the entire grassroots movement to bring light to pathological love relationships and cluster B disorders. It’s YOU, the survivors, who reach more survivors than any organization ever can and so we count you as a vital part of our team. If you have found life saving information on pathology, a survivor was probably part of how you came to find it.
