Andy Gold, Ph.D., earned his doctorate degree in Educational Psychology and Counseling Psychology from Northern Arizona University. Dr. Gold has worked with adolescents and their families for the past two decades in a variety of counseling and residential treatment settings. He served as program supervisor for a 20-bed, adolescent residential treatment center in southern Arizona specializing in anger management with adolescent males. He served as both administrative director and clinical director for a 10-bed, locked, co-ed, adolescent residential treatment center in northern Arizona specializing in substance abuse and mental health treatment with dually diagnosed boys and girls. Dr. Gold has written extensively over the past decade on the subject of anger management with adolescents. His presentations, workshops, and academic papers have been well received at both regional and national conferences in the United States and international conferences in Ireland and Canada. Dr. Gold is a member of the International Council of Psychologists and the International Association of Applied Psychology. He holds his National Counselor Certification with the National Board for Certified Counselors and is a member of the American Psychological Association. Dr. Gold has realized the practice value of blending therapeutic interventions with experiential education and has applied these realizations in the development of therapeutic horsemanship programs modeled after the initial work of the Equine Facilitated Mental Health Association and later the Equine Assisted Growth and Learning Association.