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Franco Acquaro, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist in Hawai'i. He practices Existential Psychotherapy in private practice in the town of Waimea on the Big Island. Franco graduated from Saybrook University in 2006. His dissertation (and subsequent book) is entitled: Forgiveness in the Wake of Severe Violence (VDM, 2007).
Justin Rock, M.A. received his Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Lewis & Clark College in 1997. Justin studied existentialism and phenomenology including spending the summer of 1996 in Weimar studying at the Nietzsche Archiv working on his Honor's Thesis. Justin's social work path continued years later returning to Lewis & Clark College where he completed his Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy in 2009. Justin currently works in private practice in Portland, OR where he focuses on grief, bereavement, death anxiety and loss. Justin works with children, adolescents and adults.
