Our Magazine Process

Life Coaching Today explores a wide array of topics. The content is delivered with expertise and impartiality. We want to be transparent and straightforward both for our readers and for our contributors. 

 

Our Process

 

Life Coaching Today is the largest online portal connecting coaches, therapists, and hypnotherapists with prospective clients and each other. We are committed to ensuring that each article reflects integrity and professional expertise from the writer’s perspective. While we strive to thoroughly vet every submission, we hold our contributors to the highest standards for review and approval.

We invite domain experts to contribute to the site and the magazine both to deliver information objectively and in some cases to offer their own takeaways. If an author primarily offers an opinion, we label the piece as such.

We also solicit work from authors with lived experience. These pieces reflect hard-won experience, and are often written in the first person. Because they do not necessarily reflect formal knowledge of a domain. Personal Perspectives are first-person articles on everyday expertise.

The Expert
Author Community

Our authors are a collective of members of our coaching network, directory, and extended readers and contributors.  The contributor roster includes leading experts in highly specialized areas of study.  Previous careers include leading industrial/organizational psychology teams at Fortune 500 companies and creative teams at major movie studios.

Susan Krauss

Susan Krauss

Ph.D.

Susan Krauss Whitbourne, Ph.D. is a professor emerita of psychological and brain sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and lead researcher of the Rochester Adult Longitudinal Study.

Samoon Ahmad

Samoon Ahmad

M.D.

Samoon Ahmad, M.D. is a clinical professor of psychiatry at New York University. He holds licenses in New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Florida, California, Massachusetts, and Maine.

Monica Johnson

Monica Johnson

Psy.D.

Monica Johnson, Psy.D. is a clinical psychologist in private practice who completed her postdoctoral training at Cherokee Health Systems in Knoxville, Tennessee.

The Lifecoaching Today
Editorial Team

Kaja Perina is the Editor in Chief of Psychology Today. Prior to joining Psychology Today, she worked at magazines large and small; defunct and very much still alive (RIP Brill’s Content; not going anywhere soon: Vogue). Her own writing is anthologized in The Best American Science Writing series and she has served as co-author on studies that are published in peer-reviewed journals. She holds degrees from Vassar College and from Columbia University.
Lybi Ma is the Executive Editor of Psychology Today and has been with the publication since 2000. She has written for, or has edited, publications including Discover, American Health, and CBSHealthwatch.

Expert Author
Guidelines

Contributing authors are invited to cover a range of disciplines and topics. Our standards are designed to uphold and enforce editorial standards, to ensure that authors have the requisite subject matter knowledge, and to guarantee that content is presented in an objective manner.

Our guidelines are standard operating procedures for a media enterprise; they also contain elements by additional rules designed to encourage and build our large community of contributors. We provide an internal forum for contributors to seek peer input and to ask questions and seed discussions that will enhance their work and that of the community.

We accept submissions from individuals with niche expertise and professional writers. If mastery is demonstrated and content standards are met, an editor will contact the applicant.