Tim Baima, PhD, is a core faculty member at JFK University. As a clinician, he has worked with children and adolescents for 14 years, using a family systems model of therapy to address loss, trauma and oppression in socially marginalized families. In his work, Dr. Baima strives to raise awareness of the effects of social privilege and subjugation on personal relationships.
Bryna Barsky-Ex, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and sex therapist with extensive experience conducting therapy with couples, individuals and groups. She works for Kaiser Santa Teresa as a psychologist and sex therapist in both the OB/GYN and psychiatry departments, and is an adjunct faculty member for the Continuing Education, MA and PsyD programs in psychology at JFK University. A specialist for couples and individuals struggling with issues of intimacy, sexual dysfunction and sexual enhancement, Bryna has a private practice in Fremont.
Connie Batten, MFT, is an author and an adjunct faculty member at JFK University. She is the former clinical supervisor and executive director of WomenCARE, an organization that helps women whose lives are affected by cancer, and maintains a private practice in Santa Cruz. Connie draws from her many years of Zen sitting practice, along with somatic and mindfulness based theories in her therapeutic work.
Michael Carolla, MFT, is executive director of Touchstone Counseling Services in Pleasant Hill, CA, with over 15 years experience in the mental health and mediation field. He has worked closely with the courts, receiving referrals for co-parenting mediation, post divorce parent/child mediation and individual mental health issues.
Lucia Chambers, MFT, trained with Dora Kalff in Switzerland and is a teaching member of the International Society for Sandplay Therapy and a founding member of Sandplay Therapists of America. With over 30 years in private practice in San Jose, Lucia has assisted in establishing study programs for Sandplay across the United States.
Craig Clark, MFT, is assistant professor and a core faculty member at JFK University, teaching child and adolescent treatment, psychopathology, and advanced treatment seminars, and supervises interns at the Sunnyvale Counseling Center. Craig maintains a private practice in Santa Clara and Soquel.
Sheri Clinchard, MA, has an MA in Holistic Health Education from JFK University, where she has served as an adjunct faculty member for four years. She is also a health educator at Kaiser Permanente, specializing in women’s health and integrative movement programs. Sheri has written on a wide variety of health topics for magazines, journals and websites such as Pathways to Health, The Yogi Journal, Edible California, Naturelle Health, The Family Caregiver and Women’s World.
Randi Cowdery, PhD, received her doctorate in marriage and family therapy from Loma Linda University. Her research and clinical interests focus on older adults, death, dying and bereavement, narrative approaches to grief, motherhood, and couples and gender equality. She serves on the Board of Directors for AAMFT-CA.
Marlene Cresci Cohen, PhD, received her doctorate in child development from Stanford University and began studying the Enneagram in 1979. She taught many Enneagram courses with Helen Palmer, including Enneagram in Healthcare. Together, they developed the Cohen-Palmer Enneagram Inventory for self-typing. Currently, Marlene trains physicians in the Stanislaus Family Practice Residency Program in Modesto, where she is also in private practice. She is also a clinical professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of California, Davis, School of Medicine.
Leslie Davenport, MFT, is a pioneer in the field of guided imagery, applying it to the areas of psychotherapy and integrative medicine. Founder of the humanities program at Marin General Hospital, which is now the Institute for Health and Healing, she is clinical faculty at the California Pacific Medical Center and is the author of Healing and Transformation through Self-Guided Imagery.
Terri Davis, PhD, is a licensed psychologist and Associate Professor at JFK University. She served on the American Psychological Association Advisory Committee on Colleague Assistance, dedicated to investigating the occupational vulnerabilities of psychologists and promoting state-level colleague assistance programs.
Sandy Dibbell-Hope, PhD, DTR, is a licensed psychologist and registered dance therapist who has been in private practice in the East Bay since 1986. In her clinical work with individuals and couples and consultation with licensed therapists, she uses a mind/body/spirit approach that integrates verbal and expressive arts therapy.
Kate Donohue, PhD, REAT, is a licensed psychologist and a registered expressive arts therapist who has been in private practice for 30 years. Cofounder of the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association, Kate has taught expressive arts at California Institute of Integral Studies, Institute for Transpersonal Psychology, JFK University and the San Francisco C.G. Jung Institute.
Rosalind Englander-Calo, MFT, is a therapist specializing in cognitive play therapy with children. Currently in private practice, she also has extensive experience working in community agencies, school counseling programs and with a large HMO. Rosalind provides training for school personnel, therapy interns, and in public and professional conferences.
Linda Fodrini-Johnson, MA, MFT, CMC, is a Licensed Marriage Family Therapist and a certified Professional Geriatric Care Manager. In 1989, Linda envisioned and started Eldercare Services, a full service professional care management, care-giving and family education business. Her organization serves the entire SF Bay Area with offices in Walnut Creek, San Francisco and Marin through the contributions of 20 professionals and over 200 caregivers. Linda has been honored with various awards, including the John F. Kennedy University, Laureate Award, 2007, for outstanding service to her community. Linda is currently the President of the National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers.
Lori Goldrich, PhD, is a Jungian analyst, clinical psychologist, and registered expressive arts therapist in private practice in Oakland and San Francisco. She helped form the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association and has over 25 years of clinical experience working with individuals, couples and groups. She brings a contemporary analytic approach to her work, integrating the expressive arts, sandplay and body-oriented methods into her teaching, consultation and clinical practice.
Lois Gradwell, MFT, is a Jungian analyst, clinical psychologist, and registered expressive arts therapist in private practice in San Francisco. She helped form the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association and has over 25 years of clinical experience working with individuals, couples and groups. She brings a contemporary analytic approach to her work, integrating the expressive arts, sandplay and body-oriented methods into her teaching, consultation and clinical practice.
Paula Green, MFT, has worked in the domestic violence field for 29 years, serving as an expert witness in court and speaking on the topic to a variety of organizations. She is a former supervisor and intern program coordinator at Battered Women’s Alternatives (which is now STAND!). She has also served as a supervisor at the JFK University Counseling Center in Pleasant Hill and maintains a private practice in Walnut Creek.
Barbara Griswold, MFT, is the author of Navigating the Insurance Maze: The Therapist's Complete Guide to Working with Insurance — And Whether You Should (www.navigatingtheinsurancemaze.com). In private practice in San Jose, Barbara provides insurance consultations to therapists and serves on the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists' (CAMFT) Ethics Committee.
Ellyn Herb, PhD, CEDS, is a licensed psychologist, certified eating disorder specialist and an adjunct faculty member at JFK University. She has maintained a private practice in South San Jose since 1983, specializing in eating disorders and women's issues. A frequent presenter at national conferences such as the International Association of Eating Disorders Specialists and the Academy for Eating Disorders, Ellyn also offers consultation to professionals and trainings at local agencies.
Jackie Holmes, MEd, MFT, is the founder and director of Casa Serena, an intensive outpatient eating disorders program in Concord. A respected speaker on issues related to eating disorders, Jackie has developed a practical hands-on approach to working with the clients of eating disorders and their families.
Bret Johnson, PhD, has been a licensed psychologist since 1988, where he works with a diverse population of individuals, couples, youth and families as a therapist, evaluator and mediator in private practice in Santa Cruz and Santa Clara. Dr Johnson currently serves as a contracted evaluator and mediator for the Santa Cruz County Superior Court with high conflict custody families. An adjunct faculty member at JFK University since 1991, he has worked extensively with HIV and AIDS clients in the public and private sector and is the author of Coming Out Every Day: A Gay, Bisexual and Questioning Man’s Guide (New Harbinger, 1997).
Ninette Larson, MA, MFT, is a pioneer in the field of grief education with 17 years of experience as a grief therapist and educator. She maintains a private psychotherapy practice in San Ramon, teaches Overcoming Depression classes for Kaiser and has provided over 100 workshops on grief for a variety of organizations. Ninette also ran the Children’s and Teen Bereavement program at a local hospice for seven years.
Lenny Levis, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and organizational consultant in private practice in Berkeley. He is a former member of the Executive Board of the California Psychology Internship Council (CAPIC) and of the Executive Board of Grex, the West Coast affiliate of the A K Rice Institute which provides training, consultation, workshops, and conferences in the Tavistock Group Relations model. Dr. Levis was Clinical Director and Director of Training at WestCoast Children’s Clinic for fifteen years and is currently a member of WestCoast’s senior supervisory staff.
Howard Liebgold, MD, has taught anxiety classes and workshops around the country for the past 20 years. The 1991 California Physician of the Year, he served as head of Phobease adult and children’s classes at Kaiser Vallejo. His unique cognitive behavioral approach has helped over 15,000 clients overcome their phobias and obsessive and compulsive disorders. He is author of Curing Anxiety, Phobias, Shyness and OCD and Freedom from Fear – Overcoming Anxiety, Panic and Phobias.
Brian Lippincott, PhD, has a private practice in Hollister and is clinical director for the counseling center at California State University - Monterey Bay, and adjunct faculty at JFK University.
Joan Lovett, MD, FAAP, is a behavioral pediatrician with a private practice in Berkeley, where for the past 15 years she has used EMDR with children and adolescents. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and an EMDRIA Approved Consultant. She has presented on childhood trauma and attachment both nationally and internationally, and offers individual and group consultation focusing on EMDR with children and adults. Dr. Lovett is the author of Small Wonders: Healing Childhood Trauma with EMDR.
Philip Manfield, PhD, has been a psychotherapist in private practice in the Bay Area for over 30 years and has taught EMDR in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. He was featured in the book, 3 Minute Consultations with America’s Greatest Psychotherapists published in 2001. The author of Split Self/Split Object and editor of EMDR Casebook and Extending EMDR: A Casebook of Innovative Applications, he is currently Northern California Regional Coordinator of the EMDR International Association.
Ann Margulies, MFT, has a private practice in Menlo Park, where she works with adults and couples. A consultant for individuals and groups, she has presented trainings throughout the Bay Area on couple therapy and attachment theory.
Heather Martarella, PsyD, received her PsyD from JFK University, where her doctoral research focused on therapist’s attitudes toward client’s cutting behavior. In addition to presenting her research at the 2006 APA Annual Conference in New Orleans, she has provided trainings on self-harm for the therapy staff at the University of San Francisco Counseling Center and at Contra Costa County Mental Health - Child, Adolescent and Family Services.
Maria Mattioli, MFT, is a member of the faculty at JFK University and San Jose City College. She has a private practice in Santa Cruz, where she specializes in experiential couple therapy and provides instruction on process painting, a method that helps connect clients to their innate creativity.
Mary McCloy, RN, MFT, is a certified eating disorders therapist and a masters-prepared psychiatric nurse who has been working in the field of eating disorders for over 10 years. She has taught psychopharmacology at San Jose City College and numerous workshops on eating disorders and addictions. A founding member of Connection Counseling Associates, she has a private practice in San Jose specializing in eating disorders.
Rachel Michaelsen, LCSW, is the training consultant at Asian Pacific Psychological Services in Oakland, where she has supervised graduate students, doctoral students, ACSWs and MFTIs since 1998. A CAMFT-certified supervisor with a certificate in Advanced Clinical Supervision from Smith College School for Social Work, she maintains a private practice in Oakland.
Matthew Mock, PhD, has given many presentations across the country and authored several articles on the relevance of cultural competence, ethnicity and multiculturalism in psychotherapy with children and families. He has served as the Director of the Center for Multicultural Development with the California Institute for Mental Health and is a member of the Cultural Competence Advisory Committee for State DMH which sets statewide standards for county programs. Dr. Mock is a core faculty member at JFK University and maintains a private practice in Berkeley.
Giovanna Morelli, LCSW, has worked with high risk children and families as a clinical social worker for the past 20 years, and has developed prevention and early intervention programs for children and adolescents in schools, hospitals, county agencies and non-profit organizations. Giovanna currently teaches psychopharmacology at JFK University, UC Santa Cruz and CSU Hayward.
Ephimia Morphew-Lu, MS, CN, has practiced in the Bay Area as a certified nutritionist specializing in the area of nutritional psychology for four years. A former NASA senior research psychologist, she is the founder & former editor-in-chief of the international, peer-reviewed journal The Journal of Human Performance in Extreme Environments.
Cazeaux Nordstrum, MFT, is a licensed psychotherapist in private practice in Walnut Creek and San Rafael, with 25 years as a specialist in the area of aging as well as acute, chronic and life-threatening illnesses. For the last 10 years, she has designed and taught cross-cultural educational programs on the topics of aging, dementia, care-giving, depression, anxiety and mental health issues.
Carol Odsess, PhD, is a licensed psychologist with a private practice in Albany, emphasizing EMDR and the energy psychology method, Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT). Carol is both an EMDRIA approved consultant and certified clinician. She is also an advanced practitioner and trainer of EFT.
Rhoda Olkin, PhD, is a licensed psychologist and a distinguished professor of clinical psychology at the California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University, San Francisco. Author of the well-received What Psychotherapists Should Know About Disability and the video Disability-Affirmative Therapy: A Beginner’s Guide, Rhoda has been training therapists in CBT for over 20 years. She maintains a private practice in Walnut Creek and does expert witness work.
Rena Palloff, PhD, has been a consultant to Trinity Treatment Group, developing and managing inpatient and outpatient chemical dependency treatment programs. Currently a managing partner of Crossroads Consulting Group, Rena has consulted extensively in healthcare, academic settings, and addiction treatment for over 20 years. She co-authored the 1999 Frandson Award-winning book Building Learning Communities in Cyberspace: Effective Strategies for the Online Classroom; Lessons from the Cyberspace Classroom; The Virtual Student; and Collaborating Online: Learning Together in Community.
Meg Patterson, MS, MFT, is a psychodynamic psychotherapist in private practice since 1987. Based in Berkeley and San Rafael, she is a consultant to mental health professionals and supervisor to interns in her private practice. She provides clinical training and consultation to organizations and academic institutions throughout the Bay Area.
Tony Paulson, PhD, as is the Executive Director of Summit Eating Disorders and Outreach Program in Sacramento and has been treating people with eating disorders for nearly 17 years. During his doctoral training at Saybrook Institute, he received the Charles Thuss Award for exceptional writing and research based on his work in eating disorders. Dr. Paulson has given professional presentations on state and national levels, and frequently lectures to community groups in California.
Douglas Polcin, EdD, MFT, is a research scientist at the Alcohol Research Group in Berkeley and an instructor in both the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Studies Program at UC Berkeley Extension and the Counseling Psychology Program at JFK University. His current research focuses on the use of coercion to facilitate entry into treatment, peer helping, motivational enhancement therapy and implementing research findings in community treatment programs. Douglas has worked as a clinician, supervisor and administrator in substance abuse treatment for 23 years.
Diana Poulson, MFT, facilitates personal and professional development workshops throughout the Bay Area and teaches at the University of San Francisco and Santa Rosa Junior College. She has worked as a counselor and program coordinator at several local non-profit organizations, including Sonoma County Battered Women’s Shelter, Social Advocates for Youth and Sonoma County Adult and Youth Development. She recently served as president of the Redwood Empire Chapter of CAMFT.
Robbin Rasbury, PsyD, has extensive experience in hospitals and community mental health settings, providing therapy to children and families and currently serves as the program director of the Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care Program at Alternative Family Services, working with high-risk teenagers. Dr Rasbury has been a consultant and trainer for both UCLA TIES for Adoption Program and for PACT: An Adoption Alliance Program, facilitating workshops on foster care and adoption, trans-racial adoption, parenting strategies, and working with children and families of color.
Theresa Raymer Wildt, MFT, is a core faculty member at JFK University. She has taught several courses at various universities, including Clinical Skills, Systemic Theory and Family Therapy, Brief Therapy, Couples Therapy, Advanced Couples Therapy, Advanced Family Therapy, Structural Family Therapy and Gottman Theory. Theresa’s clinical experience includes counseling, supervisory and administrative positions in community mental health and private practice specializing in couple and family therapy.
Sara Rice Powers, PhD, is a clinical neuropsychologist specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorders since 2004. Dr Powers completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the UC Davis MIND Institute and has published several articles on autism. She maintains a private practice in Walnut Creek providing psychotherapy, assessment, and social skills training for adults and children with autism spectrum disorders and their families.
Mark Rosenthal, LCSW, Mark received his MSW in New York City where he began his social work career working in a homeless shelter, He continued his work in homeless shelters upon moving to San Francisco in 1994. Mark was introduced to DBT about 15 years ago and immediately began integrating DBT skills into his clinical work with the homeless population. From 2000 to 2006, Mark worked at the Partial Hospitalization Program at University of California, San Francisco's Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute (LPPI). At LPPI, Mark provided individual DBT skills therapy with patients and would also provide DBT training to staff. Mark resigned from LPPI in June of 2006 to co-found the San Francisco DBT Center, where individual DBT therapy and DBT skills groups are offered. He also teaches DBT skills all around the Bay area.
Linda Satchell, MFT, specializes in expressive arts therapy and facilitates art therapy groups for specialized children’s groups and at drug and alcohol treatment centers and residential mental health facilities. An adjunct faculty member at JFK University, Linda also serves as clinical supervisor at Kinship Center in Salinas and has a private practice in Pacific Grove.
Karen Scheuner, MA, RD, is a registered dietitian specializing in eating disorders and weight management. Currently the dietitian for Casa Serena, an adult intensive outpatient eating disorder program in Concord, she also consults at My Weigh: Mindful & Intuitive Eating Family Therapy Center in Oakland, helping women to re-learn how to eat without diets and dieting. Karen maintains a private practice in Berkeley and Concord.
Ethan Schwartz, PhD, has conducted outcome studies on therapy treatments, served as a participant in outcome research, and been trained as a psychologist to utilize specific tools and therapeutic techniques designed to demonstrate positive outcomes. He has worked in community mental health clinics, Kaiser Permanente's HMO system and university counseling centers, and has presented at national conventions. Ethan maintains a private practice in Oakland, where he employs a collaborative, solution-focused approach.
Vivian Silva, MSW, is a gerontologist who works with elderly clients, their families and their advocates to provide them the care plans, referrals and attention they need. She co-founded Windows to a New World divorce groups and workshops for those 50 and older and designed Lady Guinevere’s Round Table discussion groups to provide older women a social support network. Vivian currently serves as a care manager at the Sunnyvale Senior Center and as an instructor in the gerontology programs at San Jose State University and Notre Dame de Namur University.
Michael Stephens, MFT, CMT, has worked in the field of grief and loss at a number of hospice and healthcare agencies in the Bay Area for the last five years. He developed a bereavement manual currently being used in grief groups run by Kaiser Hospice and Hospice of Contra Costa County. In addition to speaking and writing on the topic, Michael has taught classes on the issues surrounding grief and loss at UC Berkeley Extension, JFK University and Samuel Merritt. He has a private practice in Walnut Creek.
Kathryn Stewart, PhD, is a clinical psychologist working primarily with children with Nonverbal Learning Disability (NLD) and Asperger’s Syndrome, as well as children who struggle with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Tourette’s and Attention Deficit Disorders. In 2000, she opened Orion Academy, a private high school in Moraga, CA, dedicated to education and self-development for NLD and AS teens. She is the author of Helping Children with NLD or Asperger’s Syndrome: A Parents Guide.
Daniel Taube, JD, PhD, has been providing continuing education to licensed mental health professionals for almost 10 years. He received his JD from Villanova University and his PhD in clinical psychology from Hahnemann University
Peter VanOot, PhD, has an MA in physiological psychology, his doctorate in clinical psychology, and pre- and postdoctoral training in rehabilitation neuropsychology. Peter maintains a consultation- and assessment-based neuropsychology private practice in Oakland and consults on pharmacology. He is a member of APA’s Division 40 and 38, the National Academy of Neuropsychology (NAN), and the Northern California Neuropsychology Forum (NCNF).
Heather Wassarman, PhD, maintains a private practice in San Francisco and specializes in CBT, mindfulness-based approaches and health psychology. She has over 10 years of experience providing cognitive-behavioral therapy to adults and has served as Adjunct Faculty at both JFKU and UCSF.
Daniel Wile, PhD, is a clinical psychologist with 30 years experience as a couples therapist. Dr, Wile has published on psychotherapeutic theory as well as couples therapy, teaches in several graduate programs in the San Francisco Bay Area, and gives professional workshops on couples therapy throughout the United States. He is the author of Couples Therapy: A Nontraditional Approach; After the Honeymoon, How Conflict Can Improve Your Relationship; and After the Fight: Using Your Disagreements to Build a Stronger Relationship.
Herbert Wong, PhD, is a core faculty member at JFK University. As the founding Executive Director of the Richmond Area Multi-Services, Inc. (RAMS) Community Mental Health Center, Dr, Wong developed the first multicultural, multilingual, comprehensive mental health center which provides services in 17 languages in San Francisco and which was later used as a model for other multi-ethnic communities throughout the United States. Dr Wong maintains a consulting practice in San Ramon.
Phillip Ziegler, PhD, began his private practice in 1975. He now presents trainings around the United States and in Europe and provides consultation in the Bay Area. He has taught continuing education courses at the University of Santa Clara and at JFK University, and has written numerous articles in professional journals and chapters in edited books in the field of Solution Focused Therapy. Phillip is co-author, along with his wife Tobey Hiller, of Recreating Partnership: A Solution-Oriented, Collaborative Approach to Couples Therapy.