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Clinical psychologist with over thirty years experience
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I practiced as a clinical psychologist in California for over 35 years. I am now also licensed in Washington and Oregon, with offices in Northeast Portland and West Linn, OR. I'm an integrative therapist. My experience is broad and deep with active use and extensive knowledge of numerous types of psychotherapy.
My early training at the University of Michigan was in psychodynamic therapy. I trained with Fritz Perls, MD, the founder of Gestalt Therapy in the 1960's, then certified as a Gestalt Therapist with Perls and James Simkin, Ph.D and went on to become Co-Founder and President of the Gestalt Therapy Institute of Los Angeles.
At the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA), I served as Assistant Professor of Medical Psychology while establishing a private practice, co-founding the Topanga Center for Human Development and setting up a church-sponsored mental health clinic.
Rather than being wedded to a particular school, I enjoy helping therapists grow according to their own unique skills, talents and-- most importantly--their unique personalities. I trained therapists in the fundamentals of Gestalt Therapy and psychoanalytic Self Psychology throughout the United States, Canada and Europe, and have long presented talks and workshops at numerous professional conferences, including the Association of Humanistic Psychology; the Gestalt Conference; the American Psychological Association, the American Association of Psychotherapists and the Annual EMDR International Association Conference. I served as an Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychology at UCLA, teaching individual and group therapy, and taught classes in psychoanalytic Self Psychology at Cal State Northridge, California School of Professional Psychology (Los Angeles), and at Antioch University.
