Mary Beth Williams, PhD, LCSW, CTS is in private practice in Warrenton, VA. She is a former school social worker and author/editor/co-author/co-editor of 8 books and numerous articles and chapters on various aspects of trauma. The PTSD Workbook (Williams and Poijula, 2002) and Life After Trauma: A Workbook for Healing (Rosenbloom and Williams) are two of these books. Dr. Williams also works in the adoption field training and doing home studies for Forever Families Adoption Services. She adopted two daughters from Kazakhstan in 2002.