CURRICULUM VITAE
Current Clinical, Teaching and Supervisory Positions:
- Psychologist in private practice since 1977
- Specialties: Psychotherapy with individuals and couples, supervision and Consultation
- Faculty, Supervisor and Staff member, Russell House Psychotherapy Institute since 1977
- Faculty and Supervisor, The Psychotherapy Institute, since 1992
- Instructor, approved by California Psychology Association Accrediting Agency as Mandatory Continuing Education Provider, since 1995
- Faculty and Supervisor, Wright Institute, 1996-2002
Education:
- Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1975: Department of Education
- Specialization in child developmental theory, diagnosis and assessment of children, psychoanalytic and Piagetian theory
- M.Ed. Boston University, 1970
- Special Education of Emotionally Disturbed Children
- B.A. University of Pennsylvania, 1967
- Major in English Literature
Academic Honors:
- University of Pennsylvania Scholarship, 1964-67
- Woodrow Wilson Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 1975
- Foundation for Child Development Dissertation Award, 1975 (Urie Bronfenbrenner, Director)
Supervision and Teacher Training:
- 1977-87 Supervisors’ Seminar, Russell House Psychotherapy Institute, monthly
- 1980-92 Led Private Supervision Groups
- 1980-07 Private consultation to individual experienced clinicians
- 1982-84 Member of The Psychotherapy Institute Supervision Committee
- 1977-82 Supervisor at Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Family Guidance Clinic
- 1992-00 Supervisor of Graduate students at The Psychotherapy Institute, Berkeley, CA
- 1996-02 Group supervision of graduate students at The Wright Institute, Berkeley, CA
Teaching Experience:
- 1977-87 Co-director and faculty, Russell House Low Fee Therapy Program Internship
- 1980 Adjunct Professor, John F. Kennedy University, Graduate School of Professional Psychology
- 1981 Instructor, Sonoma Institute- taught theories of psychotherapy
- 1980-87 Faculty at Russell House Psychotherapy Institute-taught clinical and Didactic Case Seminars
- 1993 Seminar in Post-modernism and Psychotherapy, at the Psychotherapy Institute
- 1994 Didactic Seminar, Psychotherapy Institute Developmental Psychology from a Constructivist Post-modern perspective
- 1996 Brief Psychotherapy Models- MCEP seminar
- 1996-02 Faculty and Case Conference Leader at The Wright Institute, Berkeley, CA
- 2007 Psychotherapy Supervision: relational, multicultural and ethical/legal perspectives in individual and group supervision
Articles:
- “Myths of Truth, Neutrality and Causality- A Constructivist, Post-Modern Approach”, 1994
- “Explorations Into the Nature of the Black Hole Experience”, Psychotherapy Institute Journal, Vol.4, 1988
- “The Social-Emotional Effect of Age of Entry into Full-Time Group Care,” Dissertation, UC Berkeley, 1975