Author Biographies

DR. DEBRA HOLLAND

Dr. Debra Holland, a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, received a master’ s degree in Marriage and Child Therapy and a Ph.D in Counseling Psychology from the University of Southern California.  She has nineteen years of experience counseling individuals, couples, and groups. 

As a critical incident stress debriefer (CISD) Dr. Debra worked for American Airlines after 9-11, counseling flight crews and staff.  She also consults as a CISD for businesses laying off employees, experiencing robberies, the sudden death of an employee, or other traumatic incidents.  In September of 2005, she spent several weeks in Louisiana doing mental health relief work for the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

A popular speaker on communication and relationship issues, Dr. Debra also conducts workshops on overcoming obstacles to success, trauma, family issues, management/business issues, and stress.  She has recently given a series of trainings for CBS at Paramount Studios in Hollywood, and is booked for several more.  Dr. Debra is a member of Romance Writers of America and gives talks at writers conferences and meetings on “Understanding the Male Psyche” and “The Writer’ s Life: Dealing with Stress.”

Dr. Debra teaches extension classes at the University of California, Irvine on the topics of Understanding the Male and Female Psyche, and Understanding and Healing Trauma.

In addition to her psychotherapy practice, (which has a high number of clientele in the entertainment and music industry) Dr. Debra is hired by companies to coach their difficult managers, and she also consults for production companies and music bands.  She travels to the set of movies and television productions to deal with difficult people.

She wrote the “Ask the Love Doctor” column for the romance magazine, Arabella.  She also writes the “Ask Dr. Debra” column for the women’ s ezine, wetnoodleposse.com. Visit her personal website at www.drdebraholland.com.

STEVEN GUERRERO

From the time Steven Guerrero was old enough to have a crush on a girl he was a hopeful romantic, which equates to 29 years that he’ s been romancing women.  Steven has put his years of experience to good use and expanded on many of them by studying the romantic and domestic needs and desires of hundreds of different types of women.

Many of Steven’ s family, friends and co-workers constantly asked Steven how he had such a great marriage.  When they learned of (and saw) the way he treated his wife, Angelica, they wanted to know how he thought up the many creative things he did to make her happy.  Their curiosity resulted in Steven’ s former web site, StartHerHeart.com. 

For years now, Steven has been the “romance mechanic,” teaching men how to be more romantic and how to interact more successfully with women, using what he likes to call reformed romance.

Steven enjoys speaking to hundreds of men and women on the subject of how to create and preserve a romantic marriage and relationship.  Steven’ s website, his romance and relationship strategies and techniques have all been highly recommended by other industry notables such as: 

Michael Webb, best selling author of The Romantic’ s Guide, Hyperion, 2000

Greg Godek, #1 best selling author of 1001 Ways to be Romantic

Larry James, author of How To Love The One You’ re With and many other relationship classics. 

Rebecca Johnson, # 4 Amazon reviewer, has dubbed Steven, “The New Romance Guru.”   

Steven has been very happily married to his wife, Angelica, for seven years.  Every year Steven admits to becoming more romantic and knowledgeable about his wife’ s needs, desires and dislikes.  Steven believes that the harmonious, passionate, loving relationship he and his wife share is the result of his ongoing commitment and strategy to know and grow. It is his desire to share his knowledge and success with men and women everywhere, so couples can experience the love, joy and happiness they were meant to.

 

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