Instructors

Alahanti · Areán · Bell · Bell-Tull · Benjamin · Bernstein · Blonz · Bornfeld · Brady · Chow · Cohen, G. · Cotton · DeMiranda · Dimas · Drexler · Drucker · Duryee · Eaton · Ehrensaft · Epstein · Farley-Gillispie · Fateman · Fulton Hora · Ginne · Grandison · Greene · Hampshire · Haug · Heavner · Hettema · Hills · Inaba · Johnson · Johnston · Kaufman, K. · Kidd · Kouyoumdjian · Lazere · Levin · Leyva · Lodico · Long · Lukoff · Lynch · MacKay · Martinez · Maslan · Masotti · McClanahan · McCoin · McGirr · Mitchell · Moore · Mott · Nizzardini · Nordstrum · Packard · Patterson · Persons · Piotrowski · Polcin · Prashant · Presti · Preston · Richo · Rinkleib Ellison · Robbins · Robins · Satre · Scuderi · Sells · Sentell · Shappee · Shore · Song · Stanford · Ta · Tompkins · Turner · Vigil · Walker · Wee · Weiner · Wetter · Young · Zweben

Shelley Alahanti, Ph.D., is a psychoanalyst who has taught and lectured widely on psychoanalytic theory as well as on fetal, infant, and child developmental research. She is editor and coauthor of the book Psychobiological and Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Early Trauma and Personality Development.

Patricia Areán, Ph.D., is associate professor of psychiatry at the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute at UCSF. Her research and clinical interests focus on the effectiveness of psychotherapy in later life and access to mental health services among low-income, minority elderly.

Gale J. Bell, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist in the department of psychiatry, Kaiser Oakland, and is in private practice. Her own experience with the sudden death of a child has led to a profound personal and spiritual interest in bereavement.

Paul Bell-Tull, LCSW, is a clinical social worker in the Chemical Dependency Recovery Program at Kaiser Permanente in San Francisco. He also served as a counselor and director at Sequoia Alcohol and Drug Recovery Center in Redwood City, as well as in other addictions treatment settings, for more than 20 years.

Martin Benjamin, Ph.D., is professor emeritus at Michigan State University where he taught bioethics in the philosophy department and in the medical and nursing schools and received several teaching awards. His writings include four books, numerous articles in bioethics and medical journals, and many textbook chapters. He has been a member of state, regional, and national bioethics committees.

Anne C. Bernstein, Ph.D., is a family psychologist and mediator in Berkeley. She has taught family therapy at The Wright Institute for more than 20 years, and is on the clinical faculty at UC Berkeley.

Edward Blonz, Ph.D., FACN, is an award-winning scientific journalist and public speaker. He is the creator of The Blonz Guide and consults on nutritional and physiological issues related to the use of dietary supplements.

Heather Bornfeld, Ph.D., is project coordinator, senior behavioral health services, at Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, Department of Psychiatry, UCSF.

Elaine W. Brady, Ph.D., is a MFT with more than 20 years of experience. She is a Certified Addictions Specialist and a Level II Certified Sex Addiction Therapist. Dr. Brady has served as Senior Program Therapist at El Camino Hospital's Partial Hospitalization Program (a psychiatric day treatment facility) for seven years, is an experienced trainer, and is in full-time private practice in the South Bay.

Claire Chow, M.A., MFCC, is an author and adjunct professor at the John F. Kennedy University Graduate School of Professional Psychology, and a founding member of the Grief Healing and Resource Center.

George D. Cohen, LCSW , is a family therapist with more than 20 years of clinical experience dealing with many issues, including money. He is the author of How to Test and Improve Your Own Mental Health (Prima Publishing, 1998) and has published several articles in the field.

Garnette J. Cotton, Ph.D., has taught at the University of Georgia and is currently a psychologist at San Francisco General Hospital in the outpatient psychosocial clinic.

John DeMiranda, Ed.M., is the founding executive director of the National Association on Alcohol, Drugs, and Disability, a grantee of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and a consultant to the Lindesmith Center Drug Policy Foundation. He earned a graduate degree in counseling psychology from Harvard University.

Juanita M. Dimas, Psy.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist (PSY 16051) in private practice in Oakland. She was the cultural and linguistic manager for a public, non-profit health plan of Alameda County, and a full-time professor at Pacific Graduate School of Psychology. Her professional activities, including research, teaching, publications, and clinical work, have focused on culture and mental health, health inequities, minority status stress, and multiracial issues.

Michael L. Drexler, Ph.D., (license PSY 11161), is a geropsychologist/geriatric neuropsychologist at the San Francisco VA Medical Center, and also supervises psychology interns and coordinates geropsychology training there. He is adjunct professor at the California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant University and at the Wright Institute, and is clinical instructor at UCSF.

Carol Drucker, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist in private practice and adjunct faculty at both Alliant International University (formally CSPP) and the Wright Institute.

Mary A. Duryee, Ph.D., has been a therapist and mediator for 25 years. Currently in private practice in Oakland, she was the director of Family Court Services for Alameda County for 12 years.

Abigail Eaton, M.P.H., is a Ph.D. cand. in epidemiology in the School of Public Health at UC Berkeley. She has taught at various universities in the Bay Area and is currently working at Kaiser Permanente Regional Offices as a consultant to the Department of Quality and Utilization. She has also worked at Johns Hopkins University and as a research associate at the California Birth Defects Monitoring Program.

Diane Ehrensaft, Ph.D., is a developmental and child psychologist practicing in Oakland, where she has specialized in post-divorce therapy and consultation, custody evaluation, mediation, and parenting consultation. She has been on the faculty of the Wright Institute since 1981.

Gillian Epstein, Pharm.D., BCNSP, is a clinical pharmacist with 25 years of clinical experience in cardiology, infectious disease, oncology, and mental health. She provides pharmacology consults to patients and providers in the Department of Medicine at Kaiser Permanente where she is expert at deciphering the effect of single and multiple medications.

Joanie Farley-Gillispie, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist in private practice in San Francisco and Marin Counties, where she works for juvenile justice. She is a Certified National Trainer, APA HIV Office of Prevention and Education (HOPE), and has taught law and ethics for mental health providers.

Ira H. Fateman, CFP, is principal of Fillmore Associates and a California Registered Investment Advisor, and has nine years of experience in financial services. He holds a bachelor's degree from Cornell University, a master's degree from Northeastern University, and a certificate in personal financial planning from UC Berkeley Extension.

Peggy Fulton Hora, J.D., recently retired from the California Superior Court after serving 21 years. She had a criminal assignment that included presiding over the Drug Treatment Court. She is a former dean of the B.E. Witkin Judicial College of California and has been on the faculty of the National Judicial College since 1992. Judge Hora recently joined the national Drug Court Institute as a Senior Judicial Fellow. She has written extensively on issues surrounding substance abuse, domestic violence, drug treatment courts, cultural competence, and therapeutic jurisprudence.

Melinda Ginne, Ph.D., (license PSY15272), has specialized in treating the psychological aspects of medical disorders for the past 20 years. She currently practices at Kaiser Permanente and has a private practice in the East Bay where she treats patients and families who are facing acute, chronic, or life-threatening illness.

Carina Grandison, Ph.D., is the post-doctoral fellowship program coordinator in the neuropsychology assessment service at Children's Hospital, Oakland. She is also an assistant clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry at UCSF, and maintains a private practice in the Berkeley area.

Roger Greene, Ph.D., Professor and Director of Clinical Training, Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, has written extensively on the MMPI and is the author of The MMPI-2/MMPI--An Interpretive Manual.

Judi Hampshire, MFT, has worked in the field of death, dying, and grief for more than 15 years. As a clinician, teacher, and consultant, she has extensive experience in both crisis intervention and hospice work. She is a certified death educator and grief counselor with the Association of Death Education and Counseling.

Nancy Haug, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry at UC San Francisco. She conducts behavioral treatment outcome research with smokers and drug-abusing populations at San Francisco General Hospital, teaches medical students at UCSF, and performs neuropsychological assessment with adolescents in residential drug treatment.

Robert Heavner, Ph.D., LCSW, is in private practice, specializing in adolescent and substance abuse problems. Formerly, he directed community-based adolescent and health treatment programs for 11 years.

Jennifer Elin Hettema, M.S., Ph.D., is a clinical psychology fellow at UCSF. She completed her doctoral training under Dr. William Miller at the University of New Mexico and is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers.

Nancy Hills, Ph.D., works as an epidemiologist in the Dept. of Neurology in the Stroke Sciences Group at UC San Francisco. She has taught at Boston University, UC Berkeley, and San Jose State.

Darryl Inaba, Pharm.D., was director of the Drug Detoxification, Rehabilitation, and Aftercare Program at the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic, and now serves as the clinic's CEO. He is an associate clinical professor at USFÕs School of Medicine and has written books and videos on treatment approaches and the effects of psycho-active drugs. He is also a consultant and professor at the University of Utah School of Alcohol and Drugs.

Julene Johnson, Ph.D., his assistant professor in the Department of Neurology at UC San Francisco's School of Medicine. She is also currently a researcher at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center.

Shawn Johnston, Ph.D., has been a forensic psychologist for more than 25 years. In addition to his expertise in evaluating and treating all types of judicially referred clients, he has been a popular lecturer to a variety of audiences. His central professional focus is the question of why people hurt each other and how they can change.

Karen Kaufman, Ph.D., MFT, is a psychologist who has been in private practice for the past 20 years in the Bay Area. She has provided group and family therapy for adolescent addicts and their parents at Kaiser Permanente in Walnut Creek and Oakland.

Sharon Kidd, M.P.H., is a reproductive and perinatal epidemiologist and Ph.D. candidate in epidemiology at UC Berkeley. She has taught at the University of Sydney and published widely in the field.

Haig Kouyoumdjian, Ph.D., received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln in 2005. He has taught Introduction to Psychology and Abnormal Psychology at University of Nebraska and Introduction to Psychology at San Diego State University. Kouyoumdjian is a psychologist at Kaiser Permanente's Department of Mental Health Services in Pleasant Hill.

Alan Lazere, M.S.W., LCSW, is the manager for mental health and chemical dependency services for Kaiser Permanente in the Diablo service area. He is the cofounder and former program director of the Chemical Dependency Recovery Program at Kaiser Permanente in San Francisco. He has more than 20 years of experience in chemical dependency treatment.

Michael Levin, M.D., is a behavioral pediatrician and child psychopharmacologist in private practice. He has taught at UCLA, Stanford University, and UC Irvine, where he was assistant clinical professor at the Child Development Center.

Obiel A. Leyva, M.P.H., is a field program supervisor and lecturer in the School of Public Health at UC Berkeley. He has more than 15 years of public health experience in a variety of community settings serving underserved populations in the Bay Area.

Mark Lodico, Ph.D., is a psychotherapist and college counselor in San Francisco. He is particularly interested in personality theory and the impact of profound trauma on adults, as well as in the effects of forgiveness and meditation on mental and emotional processes.

Janet K. Long, M.A., MFT, ATR-BC, CTP, is in psychotherapy/art therapy private practice, and is adjunct professor at the California College of Arts and Crafts. She has taught and worked in art therapy for the past 30 years and is a winner of the Helen Landgarten Award for clinical excellence in art therapy.

Christel Lukoff, Ph.D., MFT, is a therapist in private practice, a hospice social worker, and a storyteller. She uses storytelling with the dying, bereaved, cancer patients, and children, and at hospices and conferences throughout the United States and Germany. She has published two CDs: When Life and Death Walk Together and Stories of Love and Loss.

David Lukoff, Ph.D., is a professor of psychology at Saybrook Graduate School and coauthor of the new DSM-IV diagnostic category Religious or Spiritual Problems. He has authored more than 50 publications on religious and spiritual issues, and has collected case studies in which death and grief are a focus of clinical attention.

William Lynch, Ph.D., (license PSY5151), former program chief, Brain Injury Rehabilitation Unit, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, has published numerous articles on assessment and rehabilitation of brain disorders.

Shane MacKay, M.D., is staff psychiatrist at the Berkeley Therapy Institute and a member of the clinical staff at Alta Bates Medical Center.

Katherine Martinez, Psy.D., is a psychological assistant at the San Francisco Bay Area Center for Cognitive Therapy. Dr. Martinez provides empirically validated, cognitive-behavioral assessment and treatment to children, adolescents, families, and adults. She works with both pediatric and adult populations presenting with anxiety, mood, and eating disorders.

Erika Maslan, M.A., LMFT, is a Ph.D. candidate and has nearly 30 years of clinical practice. She is an experienced trainer on the psychological and social impact of life-threatening illness, including anticipatory as well as actual loss and grief.

Renee Masotti, M.A., MFT, is a licensed psychotherapist specializing in depth psychotherapy. She also works as a mental health educator at Kaiser Permanente, and maintains a private practice in Berkeley.

Terry McClanahan, Psy.D., works in the Department of Psychiatry at Kaiser Permanente. He has also served as a clinician and researcher at the San Francisco Veterans' Administration Medical Center and at UC San Francisco's Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute.

Mikelle McCoin, M.P.H., RD, is a senior nutrition educator at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease at UCSF and the president of the Bay Area Dietetic Association.

Kevin McGirr, M.A., RN, has practiced residential, educational, and hospitality design and architecture for more than 35 years. He has taught and lectured at leading design schools throughout the United States.

Cynthia G. Mitchell, Psy.D., is a licensed psychologist and research therapist at Palo Alto VA providing treatment to veterans at the Oakland VA Mental Health Clinic with substance abuse and PTSD problems. She provides individual and group treatment to inmates with co-morbid mood and substance disorders at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville and is in private practice. She has supervised graduate students at the Psychosocial Medicine Clinic at UCSF/SFGH and the 14th Street Clinic and Medical Group.

Susan Moore, M.A., has been the grief counseling director for the Contra Costa Crisis Center for the last 23 years. She has written a handbook for facilitators of grief support groups and is also a trainer for the California SIDS program. She is a certified death educator with the Association for Death Education and Counseling.

Hannah Mott, M.F.A., ATR, is an art therapist at the Timothy Murphy School in San Rafael, where she works with severely emotionally disturbed boys (ages 8-18).

Rick Nizzardini, LCSW, J.D., is the program director for Continuum HIV Adult Day Services in San Francisco. He is the former creator and coordinator of the Men's Sexual Trauma Program at the San Francisco Rape Treatment Center. His specialty is working with individuals who are survivors of sexual abuse, adult rape, domestic violence, and other traumas.

Cazeaux Nordstrum, M.A., LMFT, is a psychotherapist in private practice specializing in aging issues and has worked in a variety of public and non-profit agency settings with elderly populations. She is an adjunct faculty member at JFK University.

Philip C. Packard, Ph.D., M.P.H., is a former Fellow of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University and Fulbright Professor to Botswana and South Africa, and has worked for international agencies. He is retired from the United Nations.

Meg Patterson, M.S., MFT , is a psychotherapist in private practice in Berkeley. She provides clinical training and consultation to therapists and supervision to interns in her private practice and within agency settings.

Jacqueline B. Persons, Ph.D., is director of the San Francisco Bay Area Center for Cognitive Therapy and associate clinical professor, Department of Psychiatry, at UC San Francisco. She has authored more than 50 articles and chapters on cognitive-behavior therapy for treatment of anxiety and depression and related topics, including a videotape series, Cognitive-Behavior Therapy for Depression (APA, 2000). She was recently elected president of the Association for Advancement of Behavior.

Nancy A. Piotrowski, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist (PSY14254) and a core faculty member in the general psychology program at the Harold Abel School of Psychology at Capella University as well as an adjunct faculty member at the California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University. She serves on the Boards of Division 50 (Addictions) of the American Psychological Association and the San Francisco Psychological Association. Dr. Piotrowski completed a NIDA Fellowship at UCSF and an NIAAA Fellowship at the Alcohol Research Group (ARG) and UC Berkeley, and is a former associate scientist and principal investigator at ARG.

Douglas L. Polcin, Ed.D., MFT, is a research psychologist in substance abuse at the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinics and teaches counseling psychology at Dominican University of California.

Lyn Prashant, B.S., CMT, is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Integrative Learning (2005). Prashant is a somatic health educator, certified grief counselor, massage teacher/therapist, yoga instructor, and author of The New Art of Degriefing. She maintains a private practice in Marin County and in Mexico, and lectures throughout the country. Web site: www.degriefing.com.

David Presti, Ph.D., (license PSY12835), teaches neuroscience in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at UC Berkeley. Formerly, he worked for many years in the treatment of alcohol and drug abuse at the VA Medical Center in San Francisco.

John David Preston, Psy.D., is a board-certified neuropsychologist and ABPP in counseling psychology. He is the author of 18 books on various topics including psychopharmacology, psychological assessment, neurobiology, and psychotherapy. Dr. Preston has offered workshops for more than 20 years.

David Richo, Ph.D., is a psychotherapist, teacher, and author who emphasizes Jungian, transpersonal, poetic, and spiritual perspectives in his work. He is the former clinical director of Alcohol Services for the County of Santa Barbara. He is the author of How to Be an Adult (Paulist Press, 1991); When Love Meets Fear (Paulist Press, 1997); Unexpected Miracles: The Gift of Synch-ronicity and How to Open It (Crossroads, 1998); Shadow Dance: Liberating the Power and Creativity of Your Dark Side (Shambala Press, 1999); and Catholic Means Universal: Integrating Psychology and Religion (Crossroads, 2000).

Carol Rinkleib Ellison, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Oakland and an assistant clinical professor, Department of Psychiatry, UC San Francisco. Her book Women's Sexualities: Generations of Women Share Intimate Secrets of Sexual Self-Acceptance (New Harbinger Publications) was published in 2000. A chapter she wrote on intimacy-based sex therapy appears in New Directions in Sex Therapy.

Julie Robbins, M.S.W., ACSW, LCSW, has served as Victim Services Director for the San Francisco Department of Public Health and is on the adjunct faculty of JFK University and the California School of Professional Psychology. She is in private practice, conducts trainings, and serves on the board of the California Professional Society on the Abuse of Children. She co-authored the second edition of The Child Sexual Abuse Custody Dispute Annotated Bibliography.

Shani Robins, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist, author of numerous scientific journal articles and an instructor at Stanford Medical School's Health Improvement Program (http://hip.stanford.edu/).

Derek Satre, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry at UCSF and is also affiliated with the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research. His areas of expertise include chemical dependency, treatment of affective disorders, and cognitive behavioral psychotherapy.

Tony Scuderi, Psy.D, D.Min., CACD, CCS, is a clinician at Richmond Area Multi-Services, Inc. (RAMS) in San Francisco and has taught at the college level for many years. He also holds a doctoral degree in ministry, specializing in marriage and family therapy, and is a godan (fifth-degree black belt) in judo.

Jan Sells, M.Ed., M.A., MFT, is a counselor at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School, Berkeley, where she and her interns offer crisis intervention, conflict resolution, and individual and group counseling to students and their families at this award-winning, distinguished inner-city school. She is also a member of Berkeley Mental Health's Crisis Response Team.

Tetine Sentell, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral scholar and services researcher in the Department of Psychiatry at UC San Francisco and has taught in the UCSF School of Medicine as well as other institutions around the Bay Area.

Joyce D. Shappee, MFT, earned her masters in clinical psychology from John F. Kennedy University in 1992. She is a licensed marriage and family therapist who has supervised trainees and interns. She has participated in the organization and teaching of the Certificate Program in Grief and Loss for four years.

Michael Shore, Ph.D., (license PSY006837), is adjunct faculty at California School of Professional Psychology, Berkeley/Alameda; staff at Laguna Honda Hospital in San Francisco; and in private clinical practice in neuropsychology, providing both evaluation and treatment services to children, adolescents, and adults.

Yong S. Song, Ph.D., is an assistant clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry at UC San Francisco. He also serves as program director of the Opiate Treatment Outpatient Program at San Francisco General Hospital. He is a licensed psychologist (license PSY16860) who received his clinical training at the Medical College of Virginia, the San Francisco VA Medical Center, and UC San Francisco.

Mark W. Stanford, Ph.D., is the founder and director of Synergia, a consulting and research group in behavioral health neuroscience. He is also the health services supervisor for the Santa Clara Valley Health and Hospital System's Department of Alcohol and Drug Services Central Valley Clinic. He has authored numerous materials in behavioral neuroscience.

Van M. Ta, Ph.D., M.P.H., is a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Psychiatry at UC San Francisco. She has worked in the areas of health planning, policy and evaluation, community outreach and empowerment, and clinical-behavioral research--all serving the healthcare needs of underserved and racial/ethnic minority communities.

Michael A. Tomkins, Ph.D., is the director of professional training at the San Francisco Bay Area Center for Cognitive Therapy; assistant clinical professor at the University of California, Berkeley; and a founding fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy. He writes and presents widely on cognitive-behavior therapy.

Jimmie R. Turner, Ph.D., is a professor of psychology at John F. Kennedy University, Orinda Campus. He served as staff psychologist, director of training, and assistant program director for the Chemical Dependency Recovery Program of the Kaiser/Oakland Department of Psychiatry for 23 years.

Alanna Nimau Vigil, M.S., RD, is a renal dietitian at California Pacific Medical Center specializing in providing nutritional counseling for people with kidney disease. Previously she was a clinical dietitian at California Pacific Medical Center, where she specialized in caring for cancer and surgical patients and provided nutritional care and support for pediatric, neonatal, and adult patients. She has also worked in the nutritional research field, investigating the impact of certain foods on test subjects' overall health. She received her master's degree in nutrition from Boston University and her undergraduate degree in dietetics from University of California at Davis. She has served as a board member of the Bay Area Dietetic Association and was on a planning committee for the California Dietetic Association.

Samantha Walker, Ph.D., is a social psychologist who is currently an associate research scientist, project coordinator, and analyst at the Prevention Research Center. Her major research focus is on sources, pathways, and processes of social influence contributing to adolescent high-risk behaviors, including sexual activities and alcohol and substance use and abuse.

David F. Wee, M.S.S.W., LCSW, is program supervisor for the Berkeley Mental Health Crisis Service program and disaster mental health coordinator for the City of Berkeley. He is a member of the North County Critical Incident Stress Management Team and has provided training in emergency and disaster mental health at the local, state, and federal levels.

Daniel N. Weiner, Ph.D., is a clinical partner at the San Francisco Bay Area Center for Cognitive Therapy. He has served as a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University School of Medicine. He is the author of several peer-reviewed professional publications and book chapters (including one in the Oxford Textbook of Psychopathology).

Michael Wetter, Psy.D., is chief of Adult Psychiatric Services at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Hayward. He also serves as the codirector of the DBT Program at Kaiser and is an experienced trainer in this area of practice.

Myla Young, Ph.D., ABPN, completed her postdoctoral training in neuropsychology at San Francisco General Hospital and for the past 15 years has worked with inmates receiving psychiatric treatment while in prison.

Joan Ellen Zweben, Ph.D., (license PSY4103), is a clinical professor of psychiatry, UC San Francisco School of Medicine; executive director of the East Bay Community Recovery Project; and program director of the 14th Street Clinic and Medical Group in Berkeley, Oakland, and San Francisco.

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