Mary Lou Randour, Ph.D.

Mary Lou Randour, Ph.D., a professional psychologist, is director of programs for Psychologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. After sixteen years in private practice, she now devotes herself to the animal advocacy movement. She consults for animal advocacy organizations, serves on several of these organizations’ boards and committees, and lobbies to pass legislation benefiting animals in her home state of Maryland. She is the author of Women’s Psyche, Women’s Spirit: The Reality of Relationships and editor of Exploring Sacred Landscapes: Religious and Spiritual Experiences in Psychotherapy, both published by Columbia University Press. Mary Lou lives with her husband, Sam Black, and her two beloved canine companions, Toshi and Sophie, in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

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