Laura Roberto-Forman is a professor in psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Eastern Virginia Medical School. She is a Fellow of the APA Division 43 (Family), and an approved supervisor for AAMFT. She is the author of Transgenerational Family Therapies (Guilford), as well as articles, educational videos, reviews, and book chapters in the areas of transgenerational theory and therapy, women in families, and eating disorders. She has a practice in couple and family therapy in Tidewater, Virginia.

Dr. Roberto-Forman is on the Editorial Boards for Journal of Feminist Family Therapy (for which she also served as Book Review Editor) and the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, and is an ad hoc reviewer for Family Process. Special interests include: interfaith dialogue; reproductive rights; girls’ and women’s health; and training and supervision of psychology and psychiatry residents.

She is a former Secretary of AFTA (2001-03), as well as past Chair of the Awards Committee (1995-97), and serves on AFTA’s Human Rights Committee as well as chairing Publications and serving as Editor-in-Chief of the Monograph Series.