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Bringing more than 25 years of clinical expertise to STARTING OVER, Dr. Stan J. Katz is also the only man on a show created for and populated by women. He brings a healthy, male emotional perspective to the house. With his extensive clinical background, Dr. Katz is ideally suited to speak to the women of STARTING OVER on a level that illuminates the causes of their past behavior, even as the life coaches encourage them to make changes to their present.

A clinical and forensic psychologist, Dr. Katz is a nationally recognized expert in the fields of family relations, child abuse, and child custody. Born in Cleveland, OH, Katz was raised in Los Angeles, CA. He is a graduate of Boston University and UCLA. Dr. Katz practices clinical and forensic psychology in Beverly Hills, CA. He is the former Clinical Director of the Maple Counseling Center which serves as Beverly Hills? mental health center and the former Director of Training and Professional Education at Children?s Institute International in Los Angeles. Dr. Katz has also been a Visiting Lecturer in the Graduate School of Social Welfare at UCLA, a Senior Research Associate with the National Institute of Drug Abuse (Western Regional Training Center), a consultant to the United States Army, and a Senior Psychologist with Children?s Hospital of Los Angeles.

Over the years, Dr. Katz has been called on by a number of national television and radio programs to serve as an advisor on various psychological issues and topics.

He was the Technical Advisor for, among others, the Emmy© Award?winning ABC Theater presentation, ?Something About Amelia? which started Ted Danson and Glenn Close and was the network television?s first dramatic film on the subject of incest. He also served as Advisor on the film ?Skeezer,? NBC?s Peabody Award-winning film on emotionally disturbed children, ?Don?t Hit Me Mom? an ABC After School Special, and HBO?s Emmy-winning ?The Indictment: The McMartin Case.?