Ifat Peled

Ifat Peled is a licensed clinical psychologist, a Certified Jungian Analyst, and EAGALA-certified equine-assisted therapist in private practice in the Los Angeles area. She is currently a faculty member in the M.A. and Psy.D. Counseling Psychology programs and in the Ph.D. in Depth Psychology, Integrative Therapy and Healing Practices at Pacifica Graduate Institute.

Dr. Peled has held faculty positions at Burlington College in Vermont, where she taught Human Development, Adolescent Development, and Psychopathology from a depth perspective, and at College of the Canyons in Santa Clarita, where she taught across the psychology curriculum. She also taught and contributed to curriculum development at the Studio School for Film and the Performing Arts in Los Angeles.

She has presented and led professional training workshops on a range of topics, including eroticism, working with the unconscious in the therapy room, transference and countertransference, personality disorders, creativity, and dreamwork. Dr. Peled served as a clinical supervisor at Counseling West, a community mental health clinic in Sherman Oaks. She has been actively engaged in education and community service, including service as a Board of Trustees member at Highland Hall Waldorf School, which offers education grounded in the philosophies of Rudolf Steiner.

She contributed a published review to the fourth edition of Psychology in Everyday Life by Myers & DeWall, focusing on the section on therapeutic modalities.

Dr. Peled’s research interests center on the treatment of trauma and personality disorders as well as the cultural and neurological dimensions of human experience. A sustained thread of her work explores the use of Jungian theory and practice to restore connection among the individual soul, the broader collective, the natural world, and wildlife. She was the founder of Olam Eco Center, a nonprofit organization that provided treatment for mental illness and substance abuse through engagement with nature, wildlife rehabilitation, and conservation education.