Education:
 

1987 - 1991

M.A., Clinical Psychology

J.F.K. University,  Orinda, California

1982 - 1986

M.A., Architecture

University of California, Berkeley

1975 - 1980

M.A., Comparative Literature

University of California, Berkeley

 

1974

B.A., World Literature

San Francisco State University, California

1972-1973

Junior Year Abroad
University of Heidelberg, Germany

Training:

2014 - 2015

Group Therapy Training Program (GTTP)

The Psychotherapy Institute,  Berkeley, CA.

2014

EMDR (Level 3  --Laurel Parnell)

Esalen Institute, Big Sur,  Ca.

2010 - 2012

EFT  (Emotional Freedom Techniques)  (Carol Odsess, Ph.D.)

Berkeley, Ca.

2009

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy:  Advanced Trauma Training  (Janina Fisher)

Berkeley, Ca.

2007

Psycho-physical Therapy  (Bill Bowen)

Berkeley, Ca.

2004

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy    (9-month training)

Berkeley, Ca

2003 - 2004

ISSD: Dissociative Disorders Psychotherapy Training Program

1992 – 1993

EMDR levels I  and II

Work:  MFT Practice

1997 - present 

Groups for Men Healing from Sexual Abuse

Berkeley, Ca.

1997 - 1998

S.A.F.E.: Group Therapy for Sex Offenders

Vallejo, Ca

1994 - present

Private Practice: Adults, Couples, Groups

Berkeley, Ca.

1994   Nov.

Licensed as Marriage and Family Therapist

California

1994 - 1995  

Community Treatment Center (Sexual Abuse Treatment Clinic)

Fairfield, Ca.

Professional Activities:

2017

Facilitator, MaleSurvivor Weekend of Recovery, Alta, UT

2016

Facilitator, MaleSurvivor Weekend of Recovery, Chester, CT

Facilitator, MaleSurvivor Advanced Weekend of Recovery, Alta, UT

2015 March / September

Facilitator, MaleSurvivor Weekend of Recovery, Ben Lomond, CA

Facilitator, MaleSurvivor  Advanced Weekend of Recovery, Alta, UT

2014

Facilitator, MaleSurvivor Weekend of Recovery, Ben Lomond, CA

Facilitator, MaleSurvivor Weekend of Recovery, Alta, UT

Facilitator, MaleSurvivor  Advanced Weekend of Recovery, Alta, UT

2013

Facilitator, MaleSurvivor Weekend of Recovery, Ben Lomond, CA

Facilitator, MaleSurvivor Weekend of Recovery, Hope Springs, Peebles, OH

Facilitator, MaleSurvivor  Advanced Weekend of Recovery, Alta, UT

2012

Facilitator, MaleSurvivor: Weekend of Recovery, Ben Lomond, CA

Facilitator, MaleSurvivor:  Weekend of Recovery, Alta, Utah

2011 

Facilitator, MaleSurvivor: Weekend of Recovery, Sequoia Retreat Center, Ben Lomond, CA

Facilitator, MaleSurvivor:  Weekend of Recovery, Alta Lodge, Alta, Utah

2010   

Facilitator, MaleSurvivor: Weekend of Recovery, Sequoia Retreat Center, Ben Lomond, CA

Facilitator, MaleSurvivor:  Advanced Weekend of Recovery, Alta Lodge, Alta, Utah

2010-2015   

Board Member, Grateful Heart Holistic Therapy Center (GHHTC), Berkeley, CA

2009

Facilitator, MaleSurvivor: Weekend of Recovery, Sequoia Retreat Center, Ben Lomond, CA

Facilitator, MaleSurvivor:  Advanced Weekend of Recovery, Alta Lodge, Alta, Utah

2008   

Facilitator, MaleSurvivor: Weekend of Recovery, Sequoia Retreat Center, Ben Lomond, CA

Facilitator, MaleSurvivor:  Weekend of Recovery, Alta Lodge, Alta, Utah

2007  March

Facilitator, MaleSurvivor:  Weekend of Recovery, Four Springs Retreat, Middletown, CA

2006    September

Facilitator, MaleSurvivor:  Weekend of Recovery

Alta, Utah

2005    Sept.

Facilitator, MaleSurvivor:  Weekend of Recovery

Alta, Utah

2004    Sept.

Facilitator, MaleSurvivor:  Advanced Weekend of Recovery

Alta, Utah

2003 -- 2004  

Adjunct Clinical Faculty / Supervisor, The Wright Institute

Berkeley, Ca.

2003    Oct.

Facilitator, NOMSV: Male Survivor Retreat (Clergy Abuse) 

Angels' Rest, Leyden, Mass.

2002    Sept.

Facilitator, NOMSV: Male Survivor Retreat

Dawn Manor, Livingston Manor, NY

2001    April.

Facilitator, NOMSV: Male Survivor Retreat 

Pema Osel Ling, Santa Cruz, CA

Conference Presentations & Trainings,

Conference Presentations
November 2017

“The “Use’ in Abuse”

Presentation at ESTD (European Society for Trauma and Dissociation)

October 30, 2014
“Treating the Victim and Survivor in the Offender”
Presentation at the Association for the Treatment of Sex Abusers  (ATSA), San Diego, Ca.

April  6, 2014

“Empowering Survivors of Sexual Abuse”  

Workshop co-presenter at American Society for Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama

 

April 27, 2013

Training in Individual, Group, and Community Psychotherapy with Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse

AAPCSW, San Francisco

November, 2012

“Institutional Dissociation and Communities of Healing”

Paper presentation at MaleSurvivor Conference, NYC:

October 26, 2007

“Dissociative Dynamics of Male Sexual Victimization in Film”  (Mysterious Skin)

Paper/Film presentation at MaleSurvivor Conference, John Jay College, New York City

May 25, 2005

"The Role of Projective Identification in Perpetration and Treatment"

The American Psychiatric Association, Atlanta

May 5, 2004

“Working in Trauma’s Unconscious with Male Survivors”

The American Psychiatric Association, New York City

Apr. 26, 2002

“The Role of the Therapist’s Emotional Experience,”

The Psychotherapy Inst., Case Conference Series, Berkeley, Ca.

Oct. 28, 2001

“How Films Treat Sex with Boys,” (Gods and Monsters)

2001 NOMSV Conference, John Jay College,  New York City   

May 22, 2001

“Relational Therapy with Male Survivors,” 

CEU In-Service, Tang Center, Univ. of California, Berkeley

Publications:

August 2017

“Interpersonal and Institutional Dissociation in the Sexual Abuse of Boys.”

in Gartner, R. (2017).  Understanding the Sexual Betrayal of Boys and Men: The Trauma of Sexual Abuse (Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series)

July, 1980

“On Soft Narration”  

Papers in Romance, Vol. 2  

Professional Memberships:

1. •   International Society for the Study of Trauma & Dissociation ( ISSTD )   -- since 2005
   
   

2. •   International Assoc. for Relational Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy ( IARPP )   -- since 2001
   
   

3. •    MaleSurvivor ( MS )    --since 2000  
   
   

4. •    Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology ( NCSPP )    -- since 2000
   
   

5. •    Psychoanalytic Institute of Norther California ( PINC )  --since 2012
   
   

6. •   The Psychotherapy Institute    ( TPI )  -- 1998 to 2004
   
   

7. •   The Men’s Center for Counseling and Psychotherapy   ( Men’s Center ) --since 1997
   
   

8. •   The Therapy Network ( TN )    --1996 to 2005
   
   

9. •   California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT)   --since 1994
   
   

10. •    East Bay Chapter of CAMFT    -- since 2002