In addition to the contributing authors, a variety of colleagues and friends have given us feedback, support, and encouragement: Shirley Anderson, Michael Cavanagh, Barclay Hudson, Jenny Schwartz, Leni Wildflower, Patrick Williams, Richard Zackon. Thank you all for your contributions that have made this a better book. Our students at Fielding Graduate University and University of Sydney have given us important feedback, asked great questions, and generally pushed our thinking.

Another important source of support we would like to acknowledge involves those at John Wiley & Sons. David Bernstein not only believed in this project, he also provided keen insights, great encouragement, and those all important reality-checks when things were topsy-turvy or looking grim. Ester Mallach was a source of calm, steady support in the midst of infinite details. Micheline Frederick demonstrated her great capabilities of keeping things rolling along smoothly through production of this book (no small feat!). And the staff at Cape Cod Compositors was indispensable in their thoroughness in helping us through the copyediting process.

There are some individuals who were very personally involved in this project: our families. Our spouses, Ben Slocumb and Georgie Grant, not only supported this work but remained enthusiastic and interested even when it meant late dinners, absent-minded partners, and those “It will just be a few more minutes” white lies. And our children, Hannah Slocumb, Eli Slocumb, Ben Grant, and Toby Grant proved to be patient or distracting as our experience required; we hope we were able to do likewise.

And finally, there are clients who contributed to the development of our and the contributors’ practice and expertise. Without their willingness to engage with us and to share their lives and experience, there would not be any theories to apply or stories to tell.