Martha Rhodes

Martha Rhodes spent over twenty-five years working in several major New York advertising agencies as a senior-level executive. Martha currently devotes her time to patients and health care professionals throughout the United States and the United Kingdom as a TMS Patient Advocate (Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation). She is on the Patient Advisory Council of the ISEN (International Society for ECT and Neurostimulation) and is a member of NAMI (National Association for Mental Illness). She has run several TMS support groups for patients either considering TMS therapy, or who were in process or have completed TMS.

As a published author and patient advocate, Martha has appeared on ABC-TV, The Daily BUZZ TV, Fox News TV, and Sirius Radio. She has written articles about TMS for online and offline media such as CNN.com, The Saturday Evening Post Online, HealthyWomen.org and TMS Neuro Health Centers. She recently returned from a series of presentations in the United Kingdom where she spoke in Wales and at the University of Nottingham Institute of Mental Health’s official TMS launch that was attended by patients, members of the UK National Health Service, and researchers from Nottingham, Oxford, and Cambridge Universities.

Martha’s book, 3,000 Pulses Later: A Memoir of Surviving Depression Without Medication, is in its fourth printing and has been featured in The New York Times, Psychology Today and U.S. News and World Report.

She is a graduate of Emerson College in Boston and has done postgraduate work at Harvard University as well as The School of Visual Arts in New York. Martha lives in Danbury, Connecticut with her husband of thirty-eight years and their rescue dog, Josie. They have two grown children and three grandchildren.