Ramani Durvasula

Ramani Durvasula, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist in California, founder and CEO of LUNA Education, Training and Consulting, and professor emerita. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller "It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People". She is also the author of several other books, including "You Don't Know Who I Am": Maintaining Sanity in the Age of Narcissism, Entitlement, and Incivility and "Should I Stay or Should I Go?: Surviving a Relationship with a Narcissist". She has lectured and trained therapists worldwide on best practices for working with clients experiencing narcissistic abuse and has developed a 36-hour virtual training and certification program, in collaboration with PESI, to train clinical professionals in using an antagonism-based approach with clients in narcissistic relationships. She maintains a program that offers support and education to thousands of survivors and is a featured expert on the digital platform MedCircle. She also maintains an active online network called the Dr. Ramani Network. She has been actively involved in the leadership of the American Psychological Association, including the APA's Leadership Institute for Women in Psychology and the APA Minority Fellowship Program. Dr. Durvasula earned her master's and doctoral degrees in clinical psychology at UCLA and completed her internship and postdoctoral training at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute. She earned her bachelor's degree in Psychology, with a minor in sociology, in 1988 at the University of Connecticut. She resides in Los Angeles, California.

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