Stephen S. Ilardi

Stephen S. Ilardi is a clinical psychologist with a Ph.D. from Duke University.

He has extensive experience as a researcher, professor, and clinician, having treated hundreds of patients with depression and other disorders.

Ilardi developed the Therapeutic Lifestyle Change (TLC) program, which addresses depression by reclaiming six healing habits from our ancestral past.

This approach is based on the idea that modern lifestyles are incompatible with human evolutionary design.

The success of TLC, even in cases resistant to medication, led Ilardi to write "The Depression Cure" as a guide to implementing the program.