Christiana Bratiotis, Ph.D., LICSW is an Assistant Professor at Portland State University School of Social Work. She completed her Doctor of Philosophy at Boston University in the interdisciplinary Social Work and Sociology program. During a Post-doctoral fellowship at Boston University School of Social Work she served as director of the Hoarding Research Project. Dr. Bratiotis provides individual and group CBT for hoarding and offers hoarding consultation to families and communities. Dr. Bratiotis' primary area of research is multi-disciplinary community hoarding task forces, written about in her first-authored book The Hoarding Handbook: A Guide for Human Service Professionals released by Oxford University Press.