Ramani Durvasula, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist, the founder and chief executive officer of LUNA Education, Training and Consulting, and professor emerita of psychology at California State University Los Angeles. She is the New York Times best-selling author of It’s Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People. She is also the author of other books including, ‘Don’t You Know Who I Am’: How to Stay Sane in the Era of Narcissism, Entitlement and Incivility and Should I Stay or Should I Go: Surviving a Relationship With a Narcissist.
Dr. Ramani has lectured and trained therapists around the world on best practices for clients experiencing narcissistic abuse and has developed a 36-hour virtual training and certification program in conjunction with PESI to train clinicians on how to use an antagonism-informed approach with clients. She maintains an engaged online network called the Dr. Ramani Network, and is a featured expert on the digital media platform MedCircle.
She has also been widely involved in the governance of the American Psychological Association, including the APA Leadership Institute for Women in Psychology and the APA Minority Fellowship Program. Dr. Ramani received her master’s and doctoral degrees in clinical psychology from UCLA, and completed her internship and post-doctoral training at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute.