BILL EDDY
Attorney, mediator, therapist,
and high-conflict expert
Bill Eddy, LCSW, JD, co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer of the High Conflict Institute, pioneered the High Conflict Personality Theory to help explain the behaviors of the most "difficult" difficult people and ways to manage relationships with them.
Bill's current and past experience includes:
- Faculty at Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at the Pepperdine University School of Law
- Conjoint Associate Professor, University of Newcastle Law School, Australia
- National Conflict Resolution Center's Senior Family Mediator
- Licensed Clinical Social Worker therapist
- Certified Family Law Specialist (California)
- Keynotes, seminars, workshops and other training in 35+ U.S. states and 13 countries
- Author or co-author 25 books, manuals and workbooks
- Co-host of It's All Your Fault! podcast with Megan Hunter
- Psychology Today blog
Experience
Speaker/Educator
Keynote speaker, trainer, educator across the globe
Author
20+ books, manuals, workbooks, and other publications
Consultant
1:1 consultations for disputes in the workplace, divorce, legal cases, and more
Mediator
40+ years mediating and developed a method for mediating high-conflict disputes
Lawyer
15 years as Certified Family Law Specialist in California
Therapist
Licensed clinical social worker with 12 years working as a therapist
Books
Bill Eddy has written more than 20 books, manuals,
guides and workbooks along with hundreds of articles.
Methods & Programs
Bill Eddy is the creator and developer of the New Ways method for handling high-conflict disputes,
situations and people. He trains professionals how to use the New Ways model in family law,
workplace coaching, workplace leadership, young people, and in mediation.
