People

Leslie Abrons, LCSW, is passionate about bringing visibility to this unrecognized trauma with life-long impacts. A licensed clinical social worker in private practice, she is trained in various clinical approaches and is deeply interested in the body-mind connection, healing trauma, neuroplasticity, and understanding learning differences. She has lived experienced and has done therapy with her sibling. She brings the knowledge of these healing conversations to her practice.

John Caffaro, Ph.D., is an expert on sibling violence and sexual abuse. He has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and two seminal books addressing sibling abuse trauma. Dr. Caffaro serves as Distinguished Professor at the California School of Professional Psychology, Los Angeles and as Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine. He divides his time between psychotherapy treatment, teaching, writing, and professional training.

Wendy Gladstone, M.D., is a pediatrician and a member of the Child Advocacy and Protection Program at Dartmouth Health Children’s. Now retired from the child abuse pediatrics clinical specialty, she remains active in teaching, peer review, and mentoring. Dr. Gladstone is a charter member of the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect and the state’s Child Fatality Review Committee. She is particularly interested in preventing child maltreatment, child advocacy,…

Amy Meyers, Ph.D., LCSW, is a professor, psychotherapist, and clinical social worker. She was trained in psychoanalysis at The National Psychotherapy Association for Psychoanalysis. Dr. Meyers has 30 years of practice experience in New York City and has taught in higher education for 18 years. She has researched childhood and adolescent physical and emotional sibling abuse and its impact on the development of intimacy in adulthood. Dr. Meyers has published and presented nationally about sibling…

Nathan H. Perkins, Ph.D., MSW, is an Associate Professor at the School of Social Work at Loyola University Chicago. Nathan’s professional and research interests include physical and emotional sibling violence, as well as sibling violence and its intersection with other types of family violence. Dr. Perkins’s research explores parental perceptions of sibling violence as well as the lack of policy that exists to address this form of family violence.

Ritu Ullal, M.D., is a medical provider for the Child Advocacy and Protection Program at Dartmouth Health. Dr. Ullal helps provide medical and psychosocial evaluations for children and adolescents when there is a concern for abuse or neglect. She is a family physician with experience in primary care and substance use disorder, and her interests include mental health care and violence prevention.