Barry Michels

Psychiatrist Dr Phil Stutz and therapist Barry Michels and have been practising in Hollywood for decades. Between them they have worked with the town's most powerful CEOs, producers, writers and actors - with 13 Oscar winners amongst their clients - and are a household name in the Hollywood community. Stutz and Michels developed their unique model when they became frustrated with conventional therapy models focusing on WHY patients were held back by an issue and not actually offering a concrete SOLUTION. The Tools is a book of solutions designed to unlock you from the past and present, and propel you forward to make your future. Phil Stutz graduated Phi Beta Kappa from City College in New York and received his M.D. from New York University. He worked as a prison psychiatrist on Rikers Island and then in private practice in New York before moving his practice to Los Angeles in 1982. Barry Michels has a B.A., magna cum laude, from Harvard, a law degree from U.C. Berkeley and a M.S.W. from U.S.C. He has been in private practice as a psychotherapist since 1986.