Michael A Tompkins is a clinical psychologist, co-director of the San Francisco Bay Area Center for Cognitive Therapy, and faculty member of the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy. He is the co-author of Digging Out: Helping Your Loved One Manage Clutter, Hoarding, and Compulsive Acquiring (2009) and the author of Clinician’s Guide to Severe Hoarding: A Harm Reduction Approach (2014).