Biography

John Grey, PhD, is a couples coach, author and founder of Healing Couples Retreats. For the last 30 years, he has specialized in conducting intensive marriage retreats. Having worked with thousands of clients, John is an internationally recognized couples retreat coach and pioneer in the field.

Healing Couples Retreats are conducted in the northern San Francisco Bay Area, set in Sonoma County, in the friendly small town of Sebastopol. Sonoma is one of the premiere grape-growing areas in the world. The landscape is a breathtaking patchwork of vineyards spread across gentle hills, offering one of the most beautiful terrains in California.

A marriage retreat with John offers a fast track to positive change - an intensive, supportive place to achieve profound results. John's methodology for helping couples is uniquely informed by research in relationship satisfaction, neuroscience, and attachment theory. He regularly trains therapists and counselors in this new, highly effective, scientific-based approach to couples therapy.

John started out as a psychologist at Stanford University, after which he went into private practice and began teaching communication workshops and training programs for counselors and helping professionals. In 1990 he started working with couples using an intensive retreat format. As an strong advocate of self-help, John has written three books on the topic of intimacy and relationship that give people practical tools to maximize shared happiness and minimize reactive patterns and distress.
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John received his Doctorate in Psychology in 1975 from Stanford University, where he taught psychology and cofounded Stanford's preeminent research center CCRMA, hailed in the book "This is Your Brain on Music". With major funding by the National Science Foundation, John's research on how the brain processes music has been published in scientific and professional journals and cited in dozens of university textbooks and thousands of research papers.

John's ground-breaking findings also helped shape the development of digital music technologies we now take for granted, from which Stanford received a historically large royalty income. Major music technology companies were founded on John's work. His part in the evolution of digital music is described in the new book "The Sound of Innovation: Stanford and the Computer Music Revolution".

Since 1980, John has been in private practice working with couples in the San Francisco Bay Area. He conducted his first couples retreat in Berkeley in 1990. For the last 20 years he has been leading his couples retreats in beautiful Sonoma County. Over the past few decades, he has presented workshops at venues such as Esalen Institute, University of California Berkeley, Stanford University, and the Scripps Institute. He was also on Dr. John Gray's - author of the bestselling "Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus" - personal referral list of couples counselors.

John has extensive training in cognitive and behavioral psychology, aimed at short term, goal-directed coaching to achieve practical results. He worked with John Grinder (Tony Robbins' teacher), developer of Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP), and led communication effectiveness training programs for counselors, therapists, and medical and helping professionals. As a recognized NLP Trainer, John was a part of the early development of the personal, professional and relationship coaching fields.

John is a nationally recognized expert in the Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy (PACT). He is a Founding Core Faculty Member of the PACT Institute, at which he also helped develop the primary curriculum and training program for couples therapists and marriage counselors.

Here's what PACT founder Stan Tatkin says about John: "With decades of experience behind him, John is a highly intelligent, creative force in the arena of science and relationships. His work is inventive and inspiring."

John's latest book is "Five-Minute Relationship Repair". Praising its clarity, Jack Canfield - author of "Chicken Soup for the Soul" - said John "presents a step-by-step process for using any relationship conflict as a doorway to deeper intimacy and expanded awareness. Everything you need to create a secure, lasting bond with your partner."

John's earlier books are "Relationship Tools for Positive Change" and "Becoming Soulmates". He also authored "The Joy of Relationship Cards", an interactive self-help deck of cards plus book. Applauding this system, Dr. John Gray - author of "Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus" - said John created "a powerful tool that can expand your joy and happiness in relating. This tool can help you improve communication, deal with issues, explore dreams, and reawaken vitality of connection."
- IMDb mini biography by: John Grey