jvheadshot TEDxDr. Jennice Vilhauer is a psychologist who specializes in the area of future directed thinking and developing skill based methods by which people can learn to create positive future thought and action. She is the developer of Future Directed Therapy (FDT)® and the author of Think Forward to Thrive: How to Use the Mind’s Power of Anticipation to Transcend Your Past and Transform Your Life.

Dr. Vilhauer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at the Emory University School of Medicine and the Director of the Outpatient Psychotherapy Program at Emory Healthcare in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Vilhauer was formerly an Assistant Clinical Professor with the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and a member of the medical staff at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. She formerly served at Cedars-Sinai as the Clinical Director of the Adult Outpatient Programs as well as the Director of Psychology Training in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences.

Dr. Vilhauer received her undergraduate degree in psychology at UCLA and her doctorate degree at Fordham University in New York City, and she completed her postdoctoral training in clinical research at Columbia University.