Janet is a clinical psychologist, a clinical assistant professor at NYU Medical School Department of Psychiatry, and a Founding Scholar of the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute at the Stone Center, Wellesley College. She completed the Community Dharma Leader Training at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in 2008 and is currently teaching Insight Dialogue retreats worldwide through the Metta Programs Foundation with Gregory Kramer. Dr. Surrey has been consulting and teaching Relational-Cultural Theory nationally and internationally for over 30 years, and has been working to synthesize Buddhist and relational psychology. She has co-authored or co-edited a number of books, including Women’s Growth in Connection (Guilford Press), Women’s Growth in Diversity, Mothering Against the Odds: Diverse Voices of Contemporary Mothers (Guilford Press), We Have to Talk: Healing Dialogues Between Women and Men (Basic Books), a contributing author to Mindfulness and Psychotherapy, {First and} Second Edition, and the play Bill W. and Dr. Bob: The Story of the Founding of Alcoholics Anonymous (Samuel French). Her latest book The Buddha’s Wife: The Path of Awakening Together, coauthored with Samuel Shem, was published in June 2015.