Meet our Chairs

Meet the Degree Program Chairs – Office of the Provost

M.A./Ph.D. Clinical Psychology

Benjamin Strosberg – Chair

Benjamin Strosberg, PhD is Assistant Professor in the Clinical Psychology program at Pacifica Graduate Institute and a psychotherapist in private practice. He earned his doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Duquesne University. Dr. Strosberg’s research is deeply rooted in the human science tradition, traversing critical, psychoanalytic, and phenomenological approaches. Currently, his research carves two primary paths: a renewed clinical engagement with French psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche and a critical examination of racism and anti-Semitism. His published work spans diverse topics, including teletherapy, psychosis, Jewish studies, and education, and engages with seminal thinkers such as Jacques Lacan, Emmanuel Levinas, and Theodor Adorno. Committed to advancing critical reflection, Dr. Strosberg aims to foster nuanced approaches in both academic and practical contexts. Through teaching and research, he strives to deepen understanding of pressing issues in clinical psychology while promoting interdisciplinary perspectives that can inform effective (and affective) interventions and social change. His first book is titled Anti-Semitism at the Limit: Critical Theory and Psychoanalysis (Palgrave Macmillan).

Angie Hensley – Department Co-Chair

Angie Hensley is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California and Tennessee. She lives on the original homelands of the ᏣᎳᎫᏪᏘᏱ Tsalaguwetiyi (Cherokee, East) people, where she stewards 20 acres of land and hosts circles, workshops, and retreats. She believes in the power of circle-based, participatory, and empowered learning spaces. She facilitates deep academic inquiry that engages bodily knowing, heart, the natural world, expressive arts, dreams, and ritual. As a depth-oriented, somatic and nature-based psychotherapist, she is interested in embodied research and using the felt sense in research methodology.

Jaclyn Deilgat – Department Co-Chair

Jaclyn is an Assistant Professor in the Counseling Psychology department, and is currently serving as the Director of Research in the Counseling PsyD program. She is a licensed psychologist who practices in San Diego, California. Jaclyn supervises Registered Psychological Associates who are registered with the CA Board of Psychology. She has dedicated a good portion of her clinical work to providing services to people who have severe psychiatric illness and substance use disorders in jails, psychiatric hospitals, and community mental health facilities. Jaclyn also provides affirmative therapy to the LGBTQAI2+ population and is active in her community for issues related to human rights. She is a strong advocate for social justice, equity, inclusion, diversity, and destigmatizing psychiatric illness. Formerly, Jaclyn was a sub-investigator for clinical research trials examining the efficacy of novel medications to treat acute psychiatric illness.

Susan James – Program Chair

Susan James is member of the core faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute, and co-chair of the Community, Liberation, Indigenous, and Eco-Psychologies specialization of the M.A./Ph.D. program in Depth Psychology. Her work has focused on structural violence, transnational African spiritualities as resistance and innovation, visual design methodologies and research communication strategies. Her journal publications include American Journal of Community Psychology, Violence Against Women, and Women and Therapy. Susan earned a Ph.D. in Community Psychology from New York University, and has held faculty and senior research positions with various academic institutions and a national think tank.

Dylan Martinez Francisco – Co-Chair

Dylan Martinez Francisco studied liberal arts at Georgetown University and psychology at Adelphi University before completing his Ph.D. in Depth Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute—concentrating in Jungian and Archetypal Studies. His work focuses on C. G. Jung’s theory of archetypes—on archetypes as the deepest nature of the psyche and how they interconnect spirit, psyche, and matter as numinous and mythic powers that animate, govern, and structure the cosmos as a whole.

Keiron Le Grice – Co-Chair

Keiron is Core Faculty and Chair of the Jungian and Archetypal Studies specialization of the Depth Psychology program at Pacifica. He was educated at the University of Leeds, England (B.A. honors Philosophy and Psychology) and the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco (M.A. and Ph.D. Philosophy and Religion).

Glen Slater – Associate-Chair

Glen studied psychology and comparative religion at The University of Sydney before coming to the United States in 1992 for doctoral work in clinical psychology. He has been teaching at Pacifica for over twenty years and is currently the Associate Chair of the Jungian and Archetypal Studies specialization.

Mary Antonia Wood – Program Chair

Mary Antonia Wood is Chair of the M.A. in Depth Psychology and Creativity with Emphasis in the Arts and Humanities program, and the owner of Talisman Creative Mentoring, a practice that supports artists and creators of all types. Through one-on-one consultations, group workshops and classes, Wood assists creative individuals who desire a stronger and more authentic connection to the deepest archetypal sources of creativity. Wood has been a visual artist for over thirty years, working in a variety of media. Her work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions and has been collected by both public institutions and individuals.

Juliet Rohde-Brown – Program Chair

Juliet Rohde-Brown, Ph.D. is the Chair for the Depth Psychology: Integrative Therapy and Healing Practices doctoral specialization program at Pacifica Graduate Institute. She has been teaching psychology in higher education venues for over 20 years. Her clinical doctoral internship was completed at the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles and she has worked clinically in private practice and hospital settings. Before becoming a licensed clinical psychologist, she did integrative work as a hypnotherapist and trained in neuropsychological assessment and in-patient settings, among others.

Monica Mody – Chair

Dr. Monica Mody is a Core Professor in the Mythological Studies with Emphasis in Depth Psychology Program. Her areas of specialization include decolonial, indigenous, and women of color paradigms and epistemologies; Anzaldúan frameworks; earth-sourced and feminist spirituality and ritual; poetry, divination, oracular speech, and arts-based research; and nondual embodiment, in conversation with ancestral lineages from South Asia. She is the author of the full-length poetry collections Wild Fin (Weavers Press, 2024) and Bright Parallel (Copper Coin, 2023), the cross-genre Kala Pani (1913 Press, 2013), as well as three chapbooks including Ordinary Annals (above/ground, 2021).

Emily Lord-Kambitsch – Associate-Chair

Emily Lord-Kambitsch, Ph.D, is Co-Chair and an Associate Core Faculty member of the Mythological Studies Program. A scholar, poet-storyteller, and native of Santa Barbara, her lifelong exploration of classical mythology is rooted in the study of Greek and Latin language and literature. After completing a BA in Classics at UCSB, Emily received a Master’s degree from the University of Oxford, where her thesis focused on the healing of grief in Roman stoicism, and where she worked as a research assistant for the Oxford Emotions Project, a cross-disciplinary study of definitions of emotions in ancient Greece.