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Ann Steiner, Ph.D., MFT, CGP, AGPA-F

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The Therapist’s Professional Will: A Workbook for Managing Planned and Unplanned Absences

Through a comprehensive collection of worksheets and downloadable forms, Dr Steiner provides a step-by-step blueprint for creating a professional will and assembling a trusted backup team. This ensures continuity of care during illness, emergencies, and unexpected absences from practice, or death. Suitable for therapists at every career stage. This workbook is a toolkit designed to help therapists protect their patients, practice, and community. Release Date: June, 2026

“This Professional Will system is fantastic! Having the whole thing spelled out for me, with fields that I can just enter and update, makes it all seem doable.”

Kylie Dennis, Ph.D., LCSWDiplomate in Clinical Social Work, Member Academy for Eating Disorders, Certified Group Psychotherapist, Founder, St. Louis Eating Disorders Network
Cover: How to Create and Sustain Groups that Thrive
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How to Create and Sustain Groups that Thrive: Therapist’s Workbook and Planning Guide, 2nd Edition

Dr. Steiner provides a hands-on approach to the challenges of forming and maintaining cohesive, durable and effective groups. This easy-to-use manual includes a screening and preparation system, complete with modifiable forms. Each form is designed as a guide that you can modify for your groups.

This handy guidebook includes templates that can be modified based on your particular needs. Practical tools include:

  • Screening Protocols
  • Sample Group Agreements
  • Group/Life History Forms
  • Designing Group Agreements that Fit Your Group
  • Agreements for Healthy Termination in Groups
  • Different Groups for Different Folks: From Self-Help to Psychodynamic Groups
  • Tools for Self-Help Group Leaders

“Dr. Steiner's remarkably thorough and practical workbook covers everything from leadership style, to the needs of different groups, to screening and group agreements. There is no more difficult task in the world of therapy than beginning a therapy group. This is a rich resource for anyone starting and maintaining a group - any group.”

Scott Rutan, PhDco-author of Psychodynamic Group Psychotherapy, distinguished Fellow and past president American Group Psychotherapy Association
Cover - Help Your Group Thrive: A workbook and planning guide
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Help Your Group Thrive: Workbook and Planning Guide

This easy-to-use manual is recommended for leaders of all types of groups – discussion groups, peer support, organizations, and workplace teams. You’ll find discussion of the different types of groups, leadership styles and roles.

Worksheets help you figure out your preferred leadership style, along with facilitation tools, sample group agreements, online netiquette information, and numerous modifiable written forms for starting and maintaining effective groups.

Practical advice and templates help you design your group, select potential members, and understand common group challenges. These valuable tools will take you from defining your group’s mission to helping your group thrive.

“Help Your Group Thrive is an easy-to-read, smart book that presents a smorgasbord of practical tools—all of which will help your group meet its objectives. Ann Steiner’s ideas and suggestions will help you avoid common pitfalls and steer you towards achieving leadership success.”

Susan RoAneSpeaker and author of How To Work a Room®
Beleiving in Ourselves, A Celebration of Women
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Believing In Ourselves: A Celebration of Women

Ann Steiner, Ph.D. is one of the 35 inspirational women profiled in Believing In Ourselves: A Celebration of Women (Andrews McMeel, 2002), along with such other notable women as Sonia Sotomayor, now a Supreme Court Justice, Antonia Novello, former Surgeon General of the United States, Marty Evans, national executive director, Girl Scouts of America, and other inspiring women. Dr. Steiner is a psychotherapist, writer, and disability rights advocate who was diagnosed with arthritis when she was fourteen. She is a national keynote speaker and presenter, giving talks throughout the country, presenting new ways for consumers and professionals to bring compassion and comfort to life with chronic illness.

“Believing in Ourselves celebrates the gifts of women who pursued goals that people told them were impossible. They proved themselves by taking the hard road instead of the easy road. Their journeys have instilled each of them with self-awareness, inner peace, and a sense of satisfaction.”

Andrews McMeel Publishing
The Rollercoaster of Chronic Illness: How to Add Joy to the Ride

The Rollercoaster of Chronic Illness: How to Add Joy to the Ride Audio CD

In this audio CD, Dr. Steiner offers an upbeat, practical guide for people living with arthritis, diabetes, chronic illnesses or pain. She shares her story of discovering ways to coexist peacefully with arthritis, and describes how she has been able to make her limitations just one part of who she is as a person.

She helps listeners find new ways to make the most of life with limitations. Topics include: relationship issues, trust, and intimacy. The CD also benefits family members, health care workers, and those whose lives are affected by ill relatives and friends.

This recording includes materials that have been road-tested over a long career of offering one-on-one counsel, lecturing, and giving presentations to professionals, patients, caregivers and family members nationally.