Michele Scheinkman, LCSW, is a faculty member at The Ackerman Institute for the Family. She also maintains a private practice in New York City. Former Director of Training at the Chicago Center for Family Health and Lecturer at the University of Chicago, she was a consultant at the multicultural Roberto Clemente Center and gives workshops in the USA, Europe and Latin America. Her most recent articles, Disarming Jealousy in Couples Relationships: A Multidimensional Approach (2010) co-authored with Denise Werneck, The Multi-level Approach: A Road Map to Couples Therapy (2008), Beyond the Trauma of Betrayal: Reconsidering Affairs in Couples Therapy (2005), and The Vulnerability Cycle: Working With Impasses In Couples Therapy (2004) co-authored with Mona Fishbane, were published in Family Process.