Dr. Stephanie Covington
Stephanie S. Covington, PhD, LCSW Co-Director of the Institute for Relational Development and the Center for Gender & Justice An internationally recognized clinician, organizational consultant, lecturer, and author, Dr. Covington is a pioneer in the field of addiction and trauma. For more than 35 years, she has created gender-responsive and trauma-informed programs and services for use in public, private and institutional settings. Her extensive experience includes consulting for and developing programs for numerous U.S. and international agencies and designing women’s services at the Betty Ford Center. Dr. Covington has also developed programs for people in criminal justice settings and has conducted seminars for behavioral health professionals, community organizations, criminal justice professionals and recovery groups across the country and around the world. She has published extensively, including twelve gender-responsive, trauma-informed treatment curricula. Dr. Covington wrote the first manualized program for substance use disorder treatment and authored the best-selling book, A Woman’s Way through the Twelve Steps. Her newest book is Hidden Healers: The Unexpected Ways that Women in Prison Help Each Other Survive.
