Evan Imber-Black is the Director of the Center for Families and Health at the Ackerman Institute for the Family. She is Professor of Psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY. She maintains a private practice, specializing in therapy for couples, and for adult siblings and their parents.

Dr. Imber-Black is Editor of Family Process as of January 2004. She also serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Marital and Family Therapy and the International Journal of Feminist Family Therapy. She is on the advisory board of the Psychotherapy Networker. She has authored and edited several books, including Families and Larger Systems (Guilford); Rituals in Families and Family Therapy, Revised Edition (edited with Janine Roberts & Richard Whiting - W.W. Norton); Rituals for Our Times (written with Janine Roberts - Jason Aronson); and Secrets in Families and Family Therapy (W.W. Norton); The Secret Life of Families (Bantam).

Dr. Imber-Black received AFTA’s Award for Distinguished Contribution to Family Therapy Theory and Practice in 1990.