Margaret Laracy, Psy.D. is a licensed psychologist with an undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame and a doctorate in clinical psychology from the Institute for the Psychological Sciences, where she wrote her dissertation on the role of beauty in psychotherapy. She trained in community-based and hospital settings and is currently in full-time practice at Vital Sources, LLC in Frederick, MD. She has taught at several institutes of higher learning and is an adjunct faculty member at the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family and at the Mount Saint Mary's Seminary.