Monte Bobele, PhD, ABPP is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, Texas and Faculty of the Houston Galveston Institute in Houston, Texas. He is a licensed psychologist and an AAMFT Clinical Fellow and Approved Supervisor. He coedited (with Arnold Slive) When One Hour is All You Have: Effective Therapy for Walk-In Clients; he is also coeditor (with Hoyt, Slive, Young, and Talmon) of Single-Session Therapy by Walk-In or Appointment. His most recent collaboration with Hoyt is the recently published Creative Interventions in Challenging Situations. He has tought graduate classes in post-modern therapies at OLLUSA for over 30 years. He still regularly supervises graduate students in providing brief therapy services at the university’s training clinic. In 2011 he was awarded a Fulbright Specialist Grant to help develop a walk-in service in a university clinic in Mexico City. He has since consulted on the development of other walk-in clinics in Mexico and has taught courses in walk-in/single-session therapy in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and Australia. He has also been involved in programs designed to train culturally and linguistically competent psychologists to work with Spanish-speaking populations and has co-led several immersion programs in Mexico. He was the recipient of the Texas Psychological Association’s 2012 Outstanding Contribution to Education Award, and OLLU’s 2013 Fleming Award for Teaching Excellence. His most recent interests center on helping university student counseling centers adopt a walk-in/single-session model of service delivery to increase the availability of services to college students.

Arnie Slive, Ph.D. is a Licensed Psychologist (Texas) and AAMFT Clinical Fellow and Approved Supervisor. His interests are in brief, strength-based, systemic psychotherapy, program development, supervision, and teaching. He has published in the areas of family therapy, residential treatment, adolescence, and single session/walk-in therapy. He has worked in hospital mental health, residential treatment, children’s mental health, and private practice. In Calgary, he was a founder of the Eastside Family Centre, a walk-in single-session counseling center, and was Clinical Director of Wood’s Homes. He has a career interest in developing strategies to make mental health increasingly accessible. He is a past president of the Alberta Association of Marriage and Family Therapy. He is the recipient of the Divisional Contribution Award (AAMFT) and the Innovative Services to Families Award (Alberta Division, AAMFT). He was a Fulbright Specialist teaching walk-in/single-session services in Canada. He is co-editor of When One Hour Is All You Have: Effective Counseling for Walk-in Clients (2011) and One At A Time: Single-Session Therapy By Walk-In Or Appointment (2018). He is visiting professor at Our Lady of the Lake University and a part-time psychotherapist and consultant to Wellness Together Canada and Stepped Care Solutions.