Wendy Treynor PhD

Wendy Treynor, Ph.D., is a leader in bridging science and spirit, psychology and spirituality, putting the soul ("psyche") back in psychology, as well as happiness expert, social influence expert, psychologist, inspirational speaker, self-help author, and social scientist of love and happiness who has published on depression and emotion in peer reviewed journals. She received her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, before bridging social science and spirit in her first book, 'Towards a General Theory of Social Psychology.' She resides in Southern California, where is founder and director of Healing Consulting. She founded Healing Consulting in 2007 and became a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Social Research at UCLA in 2009-2010, after receiving a Social Psychology Ph.D. from a top program in her field in her country (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2014; was #1 by US News & World Report, 2017). Her honors and awards include: Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers (2005), Delta Epsilon Iota for Academic Excellence and Outstanding Dedication, Enthusiasm, and Initiative (2003), Hough Psychology & Ethics Scholarship for Promising Psychology and Ethics Research (2003), Pi Mu Epsilon for Outstanding Achievement in the Mathematical Sciences (1997), and Acceptance to NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts (1993) for dramatic study. Most recently she is a recipient of The Hay Foundation Grant (2008) and The Lloyd Symington Foundation Grant (2009), which have sponsored some of her I CAN HEAL® programs. Her scientific article on depression and rumination has been cited 2,000+ times (on Google Scholar, which she published with co-authors Richard Gonzalez & Susan Nolen-Hoeksema) and she has been featured as a happiness expert on CBS-TV and also has written for PSYCHOLOGY TODAY® on her blog: Identity Shift: When the Need to Belong Goes Awry. Lastly, she is in SUCCESS MAGAZINE for her research and book on happiness.