FOUNDER Stephen Paul Adler Ph.D. Founder and Executive Director Curriculum Vitae Act Founder and Executive Director, Stephen Paul Adler, Ph.D. has worked with populations suffering the effects of trauma in Mexico and Central America since the mid-1990's. While doing that work, Dr. Adler recognized the acute need for a focused training effort as a way to equip health-care practitioners and human resource providers to provide effective assistance for these badly under-served groups.

Dr. Adler created the first program offering such training in 1996, working with a pioneering group of women from Mexico and Central America. The history of ACT traces the evolution of that program into the founding of the ACT Institute as the training division of The International Institutes for Hypnosis, Trauma Training and Research, AC, headquartered in Mexico City.

Recently, Dr. Adler has applied this body of knowledge to training United States therapists in how to respond to trauma caused by terrorism, both personally and in their practice. He views this as essential in an environment that has to include terrorism as a possibility of life in the US, following the attacks of September 11, 2001.

A practitioner for 39 years, Dr. Adler holds a Ph.D. in psychology, diplomate post-traumatic stress, MA in Social Psychology and Medical Sociology is a Senior Control Psychoanalyst, and is trained in the use of 12 different therapeutic modalities.

Dr. Adler is one of a very few professionals who are placing a focus on the integration of various therapeutic modalities with each other and into a cross-cultural background. His objective is to make them effective without interfering with a patient's own heritage and culture.

Dr. Adler has taught in Europe, Asia, Central America and South America as well as the United States. He maintains a private practice in New York City. Dr. Adler resides in New York City and Cuernavaca, Mexico.