Maria Seymour St. John, PhD, MFT, is Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco where she serves as Co-Director of Training of the Infant-Parent Program at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.  She holds a private practice in Oakland.  Dr. St. John has published at the intersections of psychoanalysis and queer, feminist, postcolonial and critical race theory in numerous books and journals. She is endorsed by the CA Center for Infant/Family and Early Childhood Mental Health as a Reflective Supervisor and Mentor, and is a developer and national trainer with the Diversity-Informed Tenets Initiative.  Her book Focusing on Relationships: An Effort That Pays was published by ZEROTOTHREE in 2019.