Joshua J. Knabb, PsyD, ABPP, is a Board Certified Clinical Psychologist, specializing in individual and couples therapy. Residing in Southern California with his wife and two children, Dr. Knabb is an associate professor of psychology at California Baptist University (CBU), serving as co-director of the master's program in counseling psychology in the School of Behavioral Sciences. Dr. Knabb also works part-time at a local community mental health center, helping clients with a wide variety of disorders. In addition to his work as an educator and psychotherapist, Dr. Knabb's writings and research have been published in two dozen academic journal articles over the last decade. His research interests include marriage and the family, psychological assessment, the psychology of religion, attachment theory, mindfulness-based therapies, and contemplative Christianity. In recent years, Dr. Knabb has been especially drawn towards the writings of the early desert Christians, which seem to capture a well-developed psychospiritual understanding of the human condition, rooted in humility, patience, surrender, acceptance, intrapsychic awareness, detachment, a courageous willingness to let go, and a deep longing to connect to God on a more intimate level. These writings, from Dr. Knabb's perspective, are highly relevant for Christian psychotherapy clients in contemporary Western society, who are often exhausted by futile efforts to fully eradicate their recurrent symptoms and looking for an alternative way to live a life authentically devoted to God.