DR. GARY AUMILLER
has appeared on over 135 national talk shows as a police psychologist and author, has written over seventy articles on a variety of topics that have been published, and two regional best-selling books called
Keeping It Simple: Sorting Out What Really Matters In You Life and
RED FLAGS!! How to Know When You’re Dating a Loser. His most recent book
Walk Like a Chameleon: Use Your Animal Instincts to Improve Your Relationship and Your Life addresses the spontaneous survival patterns of all animals and how they determine human functioning in times of distress and in
everyday life. His books have been printed in seven languages, in 12 countries.
Dr. Aumiller is twice the past President and current Executive Director of the Society of Police and Criminal Psychology, and has been chosen as the American Representative to the International Law Enforcement and Criminalistics Academy in Rome, Italy.
Dr. Aumiller has spoken and consulted at over 400 corporations, hospitals, conventions, colleges, and police organizations across the country, and is a regular guest lecturer at the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Virginia. Among his ongoing consulting relationships are the FBI Behavioral Sciences Unit, the Italian National Police, Italian
Anti-Mafia Police, the NYPD, numerous airlines and court systems.
Dr. Aumiller has been a psychological consultant to the staff of numerous electronic and print media including the New York Times, CNN, NBC News, CNBC, National Public Radio, The Wall Street Journal, Newsday, The Associated Press, Reuters News Service, and a number of monthly magazines. He has authored over 70 articles that have appeared in national magazines, journals or newspapers. He also covered the New York and Boston areas for the United States Postal Department when there were shootings or other critical incidents that require employee debriefings. He has worked organizing therapy teams for major crisis situations across the US, worked for the National Science Foundation in Antarctica, and consulted internationally for a number of organizations. His clinic in Long Island NY services over 200 families a week in therapy and counseling and is the EAP Center for the DEA. He has also been on elite profiling teams working from the major agencies around the world to investigate murder and sexual crimes.
Outside the field of psychology, Dr. Aumiller has acted as a consultant on three police movies, and even played a leading role of a serial killer in a movie released by Columbia Pictures, for which he won a best supporting actor award in a national film festival. Prior to his psychology career, Dr. Aumiller performed as a stage actor in professional stage and theatrical touring companies, and performed the New York City Opera, Washington Metropolitan and the Chicago Lyric opera companies.
Dr. Aumiller has helped set up trauma programs for the FBI after the embassy bombings, WACO, Oklahoma City and TWA Flight 800 crash, for the NYPD after both World Trade Center attacks, and has been involved with other agencies on traumas raging from hurricanes, shootings and acts of terrorism.
In October 2004, Dr. Aumiller was presented the prestigious Premio Psiche Award by the Minister of Interior of the Italian government. He was the first American ever to receive this honor.
Dr. Aumiller went to the University of Notre Dame for his undergraduate degree
and Hofstra University for his doctorate degree. Dr. Aumiller lives in East Northport, NY. He is currently working with three schools in the U.S and Canada to set up a consortium to teach police psychology as a degree program, the first schools to undertake this subject.