Morteza Khaleghi

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Dr. Morteza Khaleghi has over twenty years of experience treating the dually diagnosed. He was trained at the California Graduate Institute, earning his doctorate in Clinical Psychology. He founded Creative Care in 1989, a clinic devoted to providing individualized, very highly specialized treatment for the dually diagnosed client. Since 2004, he has acted as a resource for The Dr. Phil Show, offering treatment at Creative Care to challenging patients such as a schizophrenic mother and a nineteen-year-old child molester. Dr. Khaleghi personally appears on the show to offer advice on patients' recovery and updates on their progress.

Constance Loizos has been a print journalist for 15 years. Her work has appeared in a wide number of outlets, including Yoga Journal, Fast Company, National Geographic, Newsweek, Barron's, BusinessWeek, Portfolio, Inc., iD, San Francisco magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the San Jose Mercury News, among others. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and son.