Kevin P. Lyness, PhD, LMFT is Professor and Director of the Couple and Family Therapy PhD Program at Antioch University New England, where he has been on the faculty since 2004. Previously he was on the faculty in Colorado State University’s Marriage and Family Therapy Program. He studies various aspects of couple and family functioning with a focus on diversity issues. His work has been published in the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, Family Process, The Family Journal, the Journal of Feminist Family Therapy, and the Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy, among others, along with numerous book chapters and he serves as the Monograph Series Editor for the Groves Conference on Marriage and Family. He serves on the Editorial Boards for the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, the Journal of Feminist Family Therapy, the Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy, and the International Journal of Systemic Therapy. He received his PhD in Marriage and Family Therapy from Purdue University and his MS and BS from Texas Tech University.