A Dedicated Faculty

The members of Pacifica's faculty bring a passion for education and a wealth of real-world experience into the classroom. As leaders in the fields of depth psychology, the humanities, and mythological studies, the members of Pacifica’s faculty include authors of international acclaim, renowned lecturers, practicing psychologists, active psychotherapists, reigistered nurses, theologians, and philosophers. They all share a passion for education and are dedicated to working with adult learners.

In Pacifica’s classroom settings, students are able to develop close relationships with their instructors. The commitment of these talented educators is apparent in their teaching styles, and in the time they spend with each student. At Pacifica, the faculty do more than guide students through the curriculum—they share experiences that make a difference in the lives of those they teach.

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Core and Adjunct Faculty

Joan Ellen Abraham
M.A., Counseling Psychology, Pacifica Graduate Institute
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Depth Psychology with Emphasis in Psyche Soma Connections; Jungian and Object Relations Psychotherapy; Dreams; Creativity and Personal Mythology

Stephen Aizenstat
Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, Fielding Institute
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Depth Psychotherapy; Dream Research; Archetypal Psychology
For more information on Dr. Aizenstat's dream research teaching, visit www.dreamtending.com
PUBLICATIONS INCLUDE: Dream Tending

Avrom Altman
M.A., University of Missouri, Kansas City
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist; Licensed Professional Counselor
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Depth Psychology with an emphasis in Somatic Psychotherapy; Research in Psychology; Clinical Practice; Group Process; Human Sexuality; the Gurdjieff Movements and the Psychology of Humanity’s Possible Evolution

Britt Andreatta
Ph.D., Educational Leadership & Organizations, University of California, Santa Barbara
Certified Life Coach from the MMS Institute
Diversity Trainer
PUBLICATIONS INCLUDE: Navigating the Research University; Instructor’s Manual for the Freshman Year Experience
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Education; Leadership; Social Justice

Barnaby B. Baratt
Ph.D., Psychology and Social Relations, Harvard University; Certified Psychoanalyst, Licensed Psychologist
PUBLICATIONS INCLUDE: Psychoanalysis and the Postmodern Impulse: Knowing and Being since Freud’s Psychology; The Way of the BodyPrayerPath; Sexual Health and Erotic Freedom
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Human Relations, Spirituality, and Bodymind Functioning; Special emphasis on Cultural Studies, Intellectual History, and Comparative Cross- Cultural Scholarship as it relates to Healing Practices, Spirituality and the ‘sexual body’

Allen E. Bishop
Ph.D., Educational Psychology, University of Southern California
Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Center of California; Licensed Psychologist; Certified Psychoanalyst
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Psychoanalysis; Music & Psychoanalysis; Psychoanalytic Practice
www.pacifica.edu/allen_bishop.aspx

David Bona
Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, Pacifica Graduate Institute
Ordained Catholic Priest of the Franciscan Order (inactive)
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Psychology & Spirituality; Depth Psychology; Dreams, Religion & Psychology

Linda Branch
Ph.D., Human Development, Fielding Graduate University
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Cultural Diversity; Social Justice; Art; Writing; Healing

James Broderick
Ph.D., Clinical Psychology & Community Change, California School of Professional Psychology, San Diego
Licensed Clinical Psychologist
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Evidence-Based Practices and Diagnostics; Phenomenology; Critical Theory (of Frankfurt School of Social Research); Sand Tray Therapy; Humanistic-Existential Psychology; Innovative Approaches to Serious Mental Illness; Depth Psychology in Management

Mikita Brottman
Ph.D., English Language & Literature, Oxford University; Certified Thanatologist
PUBLICATIONS INCLUDE: The Solitary Vice; High Theory, Low Culture; Funny Peculiar
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Literature; Psychoanalysis; Film; Art; Myth; Culture

Kathryn Brown
M.A., Counseling Psychology, Pacifica Graduate Institute
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Clinical Practice; Ethics and the Law; The Therapeutic Relationship; The Art and Practice of Depth Psychotherapy; Process of Psychotherapy

Linda Buzzell
M.A, Social Science, Azusa Pacific University; M.J., Journalism, UCLA; Marriage & Family Therapist
PUBLICATIONS INCLUDE: Ecotherapy: Healing with Nature in Mind; How to Make it in Hollywood
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Ecopsychology; Ecotherapy

George Callan
Ph.D., Depth Psychology, Pacifica Graduate Institute
Marriage & Family Therapist
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Marriage and Family Counseling; Interface of Personal and Global Psyche; Depth Psychology in Film & Literature; Object Relations

Edward Casey
Ph.D., Philosophy, Northwestern University
PUBLICATIONS INCLUDE: Imagining: A Phenomenological Study; Getting Back Into Place; Spirit and Soul: Essays in Philosophical Psychology
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Phenomenology; Philosophical Psychology; Environmental Philosophy; Post-Structuralism; Contemporary European Thought

Erik Craig
Ed.D. Counseling Psychology, Boston University; Licensed Psychologist
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Existential Depth Psychotherapy; History of Depth Psychology and Psychotherapy; The Life and Works of Sigmund Freud; Hermeneutic Research; Existential Theory of Personality; Analysis of Dreams; East-West Psychotherapy; Tao Psychotherapy

Joseph Coppin
Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, Pacifica Graduate Institute
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
PUBLICATIONS INCLUDE: The Art of Inquiry: A Depth Psychological Perspective, Co-Authored with Elizabeth Nelson, Ph.D.
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Qualitative Research Methodologies, Hermeneutics, and Dissertation Development; Psyche-Centered Writing; English Literature

Lionel Corbett
M.D., University of Manchester
Certified Jungian Analyst, C.G. Jung Institute, Chicago
PUBLICATIONS INCLUDE: The Religious Function of the Psyche
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Religious Function of the Psyche; Interface of Analytical Psychology and Psychoanalytical Theories

Wendy Davee
M.A., Counseling Psychology, Pacifica Graduate Institute
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Process and Practice of Psychotherapy; Child, Adolescent, and Family Therapy; Severe Emotional Disturbance in Children; Developmental Disabilities; Issues of Grief and Loss

Jorge De la O
M.A., Counseling Psychology, Pacifica Graduate Institute
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Chicano Studies; Process of Psychotherapy; Group Process; Domestic Violence; Jungian Psychology; Sand play

Mike Denney
M.D., University of Michigan
Ph.D., Depth Psychology, Pacifica Graduate Institute
PUBLICATIONS INCLUDE: Second Opinion; a Matter of Choice
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: The Union of Science and Spirituality - Body and Soul, Soma and Psyche - in Healing; Complexity Theory and Quantum Mechanics at the Frontiers of Depth Psychology; Emergence, Discontinuity, and Self-referential Paradox in the New Sciences of the 21st Century as Related to Depth Psychology and Cultural Issues

Christine Downing
Ph.D., Religion & Culture, Drew University
PUBLICATIONS INCLUDE: The Luxury of Afterwards; Prelude: Essays in Ludic Imagination; Disturbances in the Field: Essays in Honor of David L. Miller (editor); Gleanings. Essays 1982-2006
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Greek Mythology; Women's Studies; Psychoanalysis
www.pacifica.edu/christine_downing.aspx

Thomas Elsner
J.D., University of San Diego Law School M.A., Clinical Psychology, Antioch UniversityLicensed Clinical PsychologistCertified Jungian Analyst Certified Psychoanalyst
PUBLICATIONS INCLUDE: The Western State; The Night-Sea Voyage of Coleridge's Ancient Mariner
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Jungian Psychology; Alchemy; Dreams; Relation between Literature and Depth Psychology

Martha Feng
M.A., Marriage and Family Therapy, Phillips Graduate Institute; Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Family Systems; Domestic Violence; Co-occurring Disorders; Clinical Practice; Clinical Supervision

Diana M. Ferrari
M.A., Clinical Psychology, Antioch University
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Psychoeducation of Learning Disabilities and Attention Deficit Disorder; Process of Psychotherapy; Clinical Practice; Group Dynamics; Group Process

Sukey Fontelieu
M.A., Counseling Psychology, Pacifica Graduate Institute
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Jungian and Archetypal Theory; Mythological Studies; Clinical Issues

Veronica Goodchild
Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, Pacifica Graduate Institute
PUBLICATIONS INCLUDE: Eros and Chaos: The Sacred Mysteries and Dark Shadows of Love
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Jungian Thought and Practice; Imaginal Perspectives in Research; Dreams; Religious Experience; Synchronicity; Anomalous Encounters

Mel Gottlieb
Ph.D., Mythological Studies, Pacifica Graduate Institute
Licensed Social Worker
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Myth, Literature, & Religious Studies: Theoretical Foundations of Psychotherapy; Depth Psychology and Hebrew Myths; Kabbala, Existentialism, and Spirituality

Laura S. Grillo
Ph.D., History of Religions, The University of Chicago
M.Div., Union Theological Seminary
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Theory and Method in History of Religions; Comparative Religions; Cultural Anthropology; African and African Diaspora Religious Traditions; Psychology and Religion; Theology and Biblical Scholarship
www.pacifica.edu/laura_grillo.aspx

Gary Groth-Marnat
Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, California School of Professional Psychology, San Diego; Diplomate American Board of Professional Psychology (Clinical); Diplomate American Board of Assessment Psychology; Licensed Psychologist
PUBLICATIONS INCLUDE: Neuropsychological Assessment in Clinical Practice: A Practical Guide to Test Interpretation and Integration; Handbook of Psychological Assessment; Integrative Assessment of Adult Personality
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Psychological Assessment; Eating Disorders; Dreams of Terminally Ill Patients; Clinical Hypnosis; Near Death Experience
http://www.pacifica.edu/gary_groth_marnat.aspx

Cynthia Anne Hale
Ph.D., Depth Psychology, Pacifica Graduate Institute
LCSW
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Imaginal and archetypal studies of color and of music; the creative process; the internet as psychic space; Depth Psychotherapy; embodied imagination; dreamwork; life transitions; trauma

Maren Tonder Hansen
Ph.D., Psychology, Saybrook Graduate School; M. Div., Starr King School for the Ministry; Licensed Marriage, Family and Child Therapist; Ordained Unitarian Universalist Minister
PUBLICATIONS INCLUDE: Mother Mysteries; Teachers of Myth
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Psychological and Educational Uses of Myth; Women's Spirituality; Human Development

Dan Hocoy
Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario Canada
Licensed Clinical Psychologist
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Cross-cultural and Liberation Psychology; Research Methods and Psychotherapy Pedagogy; Ethnic Identity and Empowerment; Spirituality, Social Justice, Art Therapy

C. Doyle Hollister
MA English, UCSB, MA Counseling, University of Santa Clara; Marriage and Family Therapist; Neurolinguistic Programming Certificate
PUBLICATIONS INCLUDE: Jung Journal, "Letter to Jane Wheelwright"
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Relationship Counseling, Couples and Families, Mens' Issues
Robert Kalter
M.D., Psychiatry, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio; Board Certification in Psychiatry and Neurology; Board Certification in Psychosomatic Medicine; Licensed M.D.
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Clinical psychopharmacology; Clinical work in areas of interaction between psyche and soma

Ian Kaminsky
Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, Pacifica Graduate Institute
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Phenomenology of Addictive Behavior; Adolescent Depression; Group Process; Greek Mythology

Patricia Katsky
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Certified Jungian Analyst, C.G. Jung Institute, Los Angeles
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Dreamwork; Training and Growth of Therapist; Culture and Psyche

Richard J. Kelliher
Psy.D., Clinical Psychology, Illinois School of Professional Psychology
Licensed Clinical Psychologist
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Cognitive-Behavioral Psychotherapy; Psychological Assessment; Developmental Psychology; Addictions; Transformation Psychology

Roxana Khan
J.D., Pepperdine University School of Law California Licensed Attorney
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Technology and the Global Citizen; Comparative Religions; Cultural Anthropology; Alternative Dispute Resolution

Alan Kilpatrick
Ph.D., Anthropology, University of California at Los Angeles
PUBLICATIONS INCLUDE: The Night has a Naked Soul
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Shamanism and Folk Healing

Cynthia King
Ph.D., Mythological Studies, Pacifica Graduate Institute; M.A. Intercultural Communication, California State University at Chico
PUBLICATIONS INCLUDE: Unleashing Collaborative Power in the Workplace
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Organizational Mythology; Conflict Transformation; Co-creating Collaborative Partnerships and Communities; and Power Dynamics

Aaron Kipnis
Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, Pacifica Graduate Institute
Licensed Clinical Psychologist
PUBLICATIONS INCLUDE: Knights Without Armor; What Women and Men Really Want; Angry Young Men
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Gender Studies; Depth Psychology; Psyche and Culture; Clinical Psychology; Eco-Psychology Research
www.pacifica.edu/aaron_kipnis.aspx

Jim Kline
M.F.A, Creative Writing, Antioch University, Los Angeles
PUBLICATIONS INCLUDE: he Complete Films of Buster Keaton
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Depth Psychological Studies; Mythological Studies; Cinema and Myth

Allen D. Koehn
D.Min., Fuller Theological Seminary
Certified Jungian Analyst, C.G. Jung Institute, Los Angeles
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Theological Foundations of Depth Psychology; Myth, Literature, and Religion; The Trickster; The Creative Process

Christine Lewis
Ph.D., Psychology, University of California; Licensed Clinical Psychologist
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Theoretical Foundations of Depth Psychology; Myth, Literature, and Religion; The Trickster; The Creative Process

Michael Madden
M.A., Experimental Psychology, Northeastern University
M.A., Clinical Psychology, Antioch University
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Trauma and Recovery; Couples and Family Systems Therapy; Domestic Violence Assessments and Treatment; Spiritual and Buddhist Approaches to Psychotherapy & Transformation

Patrick Mahaffey
Ph.D., Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Comparative Religions; Psychology and Religion; Hindu Traditions; Buddhist Traditions

Jerry Martin
M.D., Psychiatry, Medical College of Virginia and University of California, Los Angeles
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy; Psych-Neurodynamics and Personality Disorders

Elizabeth McAnally
M.A., Philosophy with a Concentration in Environmental Ethics, University of North Texas
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Religion and Ecology; Embodied Spirituality; Environmental Philosophy; Comparative Religion

Christina Mentes
Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, Tennessee State University; Licensed Clinical Psychologist
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Psychodynamic Psychotherapy; Clinical Practice; Survivalistic Cultures and Diversity

Sam Mickey
M.A., Interdisciplinary Studies, University of North Texas
PUBLICATIONS INCLUDE: “Contributions to Anthropocosmic Environmental Ethics” (Worldviews); “Cosmological Postmodernism in Whitehead, Deleuze, and Derrida” (Process Studies).
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Philosophy; Environmental Ethics; Religious Studies; Integral Ecology; Postmodernism.

Kathee Miller
M.A., Antioch University, Santa Barbara; Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Process of Psychotherapy; Clinical Practice; Imaginal Psychology; Active Imagination and Sandplay; Authentic Movement—A Pathway to Psyche; The Body as Sacred Text; Symbol & Image in Visual Art

Angela Mohan
M.A., Marriage and Family Therapy, Phillips Graduate Institute; Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Couples, Adolescents, Family Systems; Interpersonal Dynamics; Philosophy and Rituals; Multi-cultural Issues; Legal and Ethical Issues in the Helping Professions; Use of Literature and Film in Therapy

Mark Montijo
Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, Pacifica Graduate Institute; Marriage and Family Therapist
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Native American Healers; Anima Mundi; Sacred Work of a Psychotherapist

Ana Mozol
Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, Pacifica Graduate Institute; Registered Clinical Counselor
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Dreams; Depth Psychology; Archetypal Theory; Human Sexuality; Sacred Feminine; Shamanism

Elizabeth Nelson
Ph.D., Depth Psychology, Pacifica Graduate Institute
PUBLICATIONS INCLUDE: The Art of Inquiry: A Depth Psychological Perspective, Co-Authored with Joe Coppin, Ph.D.
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Qualitative Research Methodologies, Hermeneutics, and Dissertation Development; Psyche-Centered Writing; English Literature

V. Walter Odajnyk
Ph.D., Public Law and Government, Columbia University; Certified Jungian Analyst, C.G. Jung Institute, Zurich; NAAP Certified Psychoanalyst; Research Psychoanalyst (Med. Bd. of CA)
PUBLICATIONS INCLUDE: Gathering the Light: A Psychology of Meditation; Jung and Politics: The Political and Social Ideas of C.G. Jung; Marxism and Existentialism
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Jungian Psychology; Egyptian Mythology; Folklore and Fairytales; Post-Jungian Depth Psychology

Avedis Panajian
Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, U.S. International University; Certified Psychoanalyst; Training and Supervising Analyst; Licensed Psychologist; Diplomate in Clinical Psychology, American Board of Professional Psychology
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Clinical Psychoanalysis; Psychopathology; Primitive Mental States

Tina Panteleakos
Ph.D., Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara; Registered Psychological Assistant
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Psychopathology; Trauma; Assessment; Psychotherapy

Ginette Paris
Ph.D., Social Psychology, University of Montreal; Licensed Clinical Psychologist
PUBLICATIONS INCLUDE: Pagan Grace; Pagan Meditations; Mythology: A CD-ROM Encyclopedia of Greek and Roman Mythology; The Wisdom of Psyche
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Depth & Archetypal Psychology
www.pacifica.edu/ginette_paris.aspx

Craig Park
M.A., Clinical Psychology, Antioch University, San Francisco; Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Chemical Dependency; Family Systems Therapy; Dual Diagnosis and Adolescent Treatment

Elizabeth Perluss
Ph.D., Depth Psychology, Pacifica Graduate Institute; LMFT and Credentialed School Counselor
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Psyche and Nature; Wilderness Rites of Passage; Jungian Psychotherapy; Use of “Council” as a means for facilitating transformative dialogue; Expressive Arts Therapy; Child Psychotherapy

Chris Peterson
Ph.D., Counseling Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara; Licensed Psychologist, Diplomate of the American College of Forensic Examiners; Certificate from National Board of Addiction Examiners; Certificate in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy; Clinical Supervision; Treatment of Addictive Disorders

Robert Romanyshyn
Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, Duquesne University; Affiliate Member of The Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts
PUBLICATIONS INCLUDE: Ways of the Heart: Essays Toward an Imaginal Psychology; Mirror and Metaphor: Images and Stories of Psychological Life; Technology as Symptom and Dream; The Soul in Grief: Love, Death, and Transformation; and Psychological Life: From Science to Metaphor
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Imaginal Psychology as the Outcome of a Dialogue Between Phenomenology and Jungian Psychology and Its Application to Research, Cultural Issues, and Psychotherapy; Exile, Homecoming and the Mythic Roots of Technology; Writing Down the Soul and the Creative Process; Dialogues Among Jungian Psychology, the Poets, and Quantum Physics.
www.pacifica.edu/robert_romanyshyn.aspx

Jennifer Selig
Ph.D., Depth Psychology, Pacifica Graduate Institute
PUBLICATIONS: Thinking Outside the Church:110 Ways to Connect With Your Spiritual Nature; Reach for the Stars; What Now? Words of Wisdom for Life After Graduation; Reimagining Education: Essays on Retrieving the Soul Learning
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Multicultural Studies and Diversity Issues; The Application of Therapeutic Principles to Cultural Settings; Psyche and the Humanities; Depth Psychological Approaches to Writing and Research

Jennifer Seyler
M.A. Counseling Psychology, Pacifica Graduate Institute; Marriage & Family Therapist; Clinical Psychologist.
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Symbol in the Visual Arts; Interdisciplinary Research; Portfolio Development

Barbara Shore
Ph.D., Mythological Studies, Pacifica Graduate Institute; Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Myth, Literature, Religion; Psychology through a System Lens; Trauma and Post Traumatic Stress; Eating Disorders

Mady Schutzman
Ph.D., Performance Studies, New York University
PUBLICATIONS: The Real Thing: Performance, Hysteria, and Advertising; Playing Boal: Theatre, Therapy, Activism; A Boal Companion: Dialogues on Theatre and Cultural Politics
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Ritual, theatre and social justice, trickster figure in culture, humor/comedy/parody

Michael P. Sipiora
Ph.D., Psychology, University of Dallas
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Phenomenological Psychology; Archetypal Psychology

Glen Slater
Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, Pacifica Graduate Institute
PUBLICATIONS INCLUDE: Senex and Puer (editor)
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Jungian Psychology; Archetypal Psychology; Psychology of Religion; Cinema and Psyche

Dennis Patrick Slattery
Ph.D., Literature & Phenomenology, University of Dallas
PUBLICATIONS INCLUDE: Harvesting Darkness: Essays on Literature, Myth, Film and Culture; Casting the Shadows; Grace in the Desert: Awakening to the Gifts of Monastic Life; Just Below the Water Line; Depth Psychology: Meditations in the Field (editor)
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Psyche and Nature; Literary Classics; Genre Theory; Theories of Mytho-poeisis; Pedagogy; Body and Psyche; Epic Narrative; Phenomenology; Joseph Campbell’s Theory of Myth
www.pacifica.edu/dennis_slattery.aspx

Lisa Sloan
Ph.D., Clinical Psychology with Emphasis in Depth Psychology, Pacifica Graduate Institute; Licensed Clinical Psychologist
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Jungian Psychotherapy; Imaginal Psychology; Shamanism and Jungian Theory

Evans Lansing Smith
Ph.D. Comparative Literature, Claremont Graduate School
PUBLICATIONS INCLUDE: Sacred Mysteries: Myths About Couples in Quest; The Descent to the Underworld in Literature, Painting, and Film: The Modernist Nekyia; Figuring Poesis: A Mythical Geometry of Postmodernism
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Myth in Literature from Antiquity to Postmodernism; Arthurian Romances; The Hermetic Tradition

Zaman Stanizai
Ph.D., History of Consciousness, University of California at Santa Cruz
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Islamic Studies; Theosophy, Political Philosophy; Islamic Mysticism; Sufism; Poetic Expression in Mystic Thought

Maurice Stevens
Ph.D., Political Science, University of Southern California; M.A. Linguistics, University of Washington
PUBLICATIONS INCLUDE: Trans(per)forming African-American history and identity
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Critical Trauma Studies; Critical Race Studies; Critical Psychoanalysis; Cultural Studies

Richard Tarnas
Ph.D., Psychology, Saybrook Institute
PUBLICATIONS INCLUDE: The Passion of the Western Mind; Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World Views
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: The History of Western Thought and Culture; The Archetypal Perspective; Cosmology and Psychology

Priscilla Taylor
Ph.D., Mythology, Pacifica Graduate Institute; Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Psychopathology from DSM IV and Archetypal Psychology Perspectives; Psyche and Landscape; Mythodrama: Storytelling Blending Theater, Psychology and Mythology

Andrew Teton
M.A., Clinical Psychology, Antioch University, Santa Barbara; Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Theories of Psychotherapy; Marriage, Couples, and Family Systems; Law and Ethics; Clinical Skills; Group Psychotherapy; Trauma Recovery; Body Inclusive Therapeutic Approaches; California Licensing Preparation

Lou Anne Wallner
M.A., Counseling Psychology, Pacifica Graduate Institute; Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Family Systems from a Depth Perspective; Adolescent Psychology; Myth and Narcissism in Western Culture; Eco and Wilderness Psychology

Mary Watkins
Ph.D., Clinical and Developmental Psychology, Clark University; Licensed Clinical Psychologist
PUBLICATIONS INCLUDE:Waking Dreams; Invisible Guests; Talking with Young Children about Adoption; Toward Psychologies of Liberation (co-author with Helene Shulman).
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Imaginal/Archetypal Psychology; Object Relations Theory; Liberation Psychology; Participatory and Phenomenological Research; Dialogue Theory/Praxis
http://www.pacifica.edu/mary_watkins.aspx

Keikilani M. Williams
Ph.D., Experimental Psychology, Loma Linda University; M.P.H. Health Promotion, Loma Linda University

Gary White
M.A., Antioch University; Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Sexual Violence; Sexuality; Multi- Cultural Issues; Men’s & Women’s Issues; Multiple Personality Disorder

Oksana Yakushko
Ph.D., Counseling Psychology, University of Missouri
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Holistic Professional and Scholarly Development; Work with Recent Immigrants and Refugees; Sacred Approaches to Motherhood and Parenting.

Willow Young
M.A., Counseling Psychology, Pacifica Graduate Institute; Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist; CAMFT Certified Supervisor
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Jungian and Self-Psychology, Archetypal Research; World Arts, Culture, and Mythology; Psyche and Dreams; Clinical Practice Issues

Paul Zolbrod
Ph.D., English with Emphasis on Medieval and Early Renaissance Literature, University of Pittsburgh
PUBLICATIONS INCLUDE: Diné bahane’: The Navaho Creation Story; Reading the Voice: Native American Oral Poetry on the Written Page; Weaving a World: Textiles and the Navajo Way of Seeing (with Roseann Willink): A Story of the Korean War in Four Movements
AREAS OF EMPHASIS: Native American Oral Traditions; Medieval and Renaissance Literature; Early American Literature, Epic Traditions