One of the first “gastropsychologists” in the US and a thought-leader, Dr. Franklin is an experiential, somatically-oriented, mindfulness-based private-practice psychologist, specializing in the treatment of neuroplastic symptoms, especially digestive conditions like irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and other disorders of gut-brain interaction (DGBIs). She created donthateyourguts.com as a resource for patients with DGBIs and for 20+ years she has providing psychotherapy, telepsychology, and consultation services to individuals, couples, and families. Dr. Franklin began her career on the heels of having suffered greatly from IBS. A year of psychotherapy as a teenager kick-started her healing process and made her acutely aware of the powerful relationship between mind and body; then over the course of graduate school, she recovered completely. Originally from Los Angeles, she worked with physicians of the UCLA Center for Neurovisceral Studies before moving to Durham, NC, and worked at the UNC Center for Functional GI and Motility Disorders, Chapel Hill. Dr. Franklin has taught Vipassana and mindfulness meditation, served as an associate editor for the Journal of Humanistic Psychology, and regularly gives presentations on treatment for DGBIs and other neuroplastic conditions to physicians, psychotherapists, other health-care professionals, and the public.