Janis Abrahms Spring, Ph.D., ABPP, is a board certified clinical psychologist and nationally acclaimed expert on issues of trust, intimacy, and forgiveness. Her first book, After the Affair: Healing the Pain and Rebuilding Trust When a Partner Has Been Unfaithful, has sold more than a 600,000 copies and was a Books for a Better Life Award finalist in the categories of Best First Book and Best Relationship Book. The completely updated second edition added a chapter on affairs in cyberspace, and the recently released third edition in 2020 includes an afterword in which the author answers patients’ troubling, often provocative questions regarding their affair recovery. 

How Can I Forgive You? The Courage to Forgive, the Freedom Not To, was a Books for a Better Life Award finalist in the category of Best Psychology Book and has sold more than one hundred thousand copies. Life with Pop: Lessons on Caring for an Aging Parent, a Living Well Award Silver Medalist, captures the extraordinary, ordinary personal challenges and moments of grace that come with caregiving and growing old.

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In private practice for 44 years in Westport, Connecticut, Dr. Spring is a recipient of the Connecticut Psychological Association’s Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Practice of Psychology and the Connecticut Marriage and Family Therapy’s Award for Distinguished Service to Families.

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Dr. Spring received her B.A. from Brandeis University, magna cum laude; her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Connecticut, and her post-graduate training from Aaron Beck, M.D., at the Center for Cognitive Therapy at the University of Pennsylvania. A former clinical supervisor in the Department of Psychology at Yale University, she often serves as a guest expert in the national media (Good Morning America, NPR, The New York Times, Huffington Post, Sirius XM Radio, and others).

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Dr. Spring trains hundreds of therapists each year and is known for the richness and originality of her clinical skills. She presents regularly at venues such as The Smithsonian Institute, Harvard’s Continuing Education Conferences, Smith College School of Social Work, The Milton Erickson Couples Conference, J & K Seminars, and Kripalu Institute, as well as at annual conferences of psychologists and marriage and family therapists. She and her husband have four sons and eight grandchildren.