Richard Gray is Research Director and co-founder of the Research and Recognition Project, where he led the pilot studies of the RTM protocol. He is a former tenured faculty member in the School of Criminal Justice at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, NJ, and served for more than 20 years in the US Probation Department, Brooklyn, NY. During that time, he developed an award-winning intervention for substance use disorders among federal offenders. He was co-recipient of the Neuro-Linguistic Programming World Community Award in 1995 for that work. He is the author of Archetypal Explorations (Routledge, 1996); Co-Author with Lisa De Rijk (Wake) and Frank Bourke of The Clinical Effectiveness of NLP (Routledge, 2012), Neurolinguistic Programming in Clinical Settings (Routledge, 2022), and other books and articles. Gray received his BA in Psychology, Central College, Pella, IA; MA in Sociology, Fordham University, Bronx, NY; and Ph.D. in Psychology from The Union Institute, Cincinnati, OH.