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Holly Parker, Ph.D.
Specialties: Human psychology; relationships; denial; health and lifestyle; trauma and loss; self-esteem; social issues and influences; positivity
Home base: Boston
Web site: www.drhollyparker.com
Holly Parker is ardent about empowering people to cultivate a more authentic, fulfilling, joyful life. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University, where she was a Karen Stone Fellow and Sackler Scholar. She is an award-winning lecturer at Harvard, where she teaches the popular course The Psychology of Close Relationships. She is also an Associate Director of Training at the Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, and uses lifestyle-based interventions to advance people’s mental health and the quality of their lives. Her soon-to-be-published books are When Reality Bites: How Denial Helps . . . and What to Do When It Hurts (Hazelden, September 2016) and If We’re Together, Why Do I Feel So Alone?: How to Build 
Intimacy with an Emotionally Unavailable Partner (Berkley/NAL–Penguin Random House, January 2017). Dr. Parker also writes a blog on her website www.drhollyparker.com, has been a featured guest on radio programs and has served as an expert for media outlets such as ABC News, Prevention, SELF Magazine, The Chicago Tribune, Psychology Today, Fox News and The Saturday Evening Post.
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