Faculty Directory

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Ashley L. Bacchi, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Jewish History and Ancient Mediterranean Religions at Starr King School for the Ministry of the Graduate Theological Union, as well as lectures in the Religious Studies and Art History departments at Humboldt State University. Her research focuses on issues related to gender, sexuality, myth, politics, and questions related to social justice in the ancient Mediterranean. Bacchi has cultivated an interdisciplinary approach to contextualizing the Hellenistic Mediterranean, which includes religious studies, classics, art history, archaeology, cultural history, literary theory, and feminist theory.


Fabricio E. Balcazar, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Disability and Human Development at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His primary interest is in developing methods for enhancing consumer empowerment and personal effectiveness among individuals with disabilities.


Kristin Beasley, Ph.D. (aka Dr. B) in Clinical Psychology, and a diverse sprinkling of human development, anthropology, philosophy, and neuroscience. Dr. B earned her parent-child/infant mental health specialization and had the opportunity to work in the pediatric department at the Cleveland Clinic, and the Psychoanalytic Society in Ohio. She also explored Kenya to learn about extreme poverty because her work revolves around the commitment to create sustainable change and effective implementation of innovations that include learning how to Leave a Lifeprint and build resilience from the beginning.


Gustavo Beck is a Jungian and archetypal psychotherapist with a practice in Mexico City. His main interest, however, is in the relationship between the microcosm of the therapeutic relationship and wider social, cultural, and environmental issues.


Dr. Gina Subia Belton PhD is an alumna from Pacifica Graduate Institute and psychology faculty in the PhD Psychology program at Saybrook University where she also teaches in both the Transformative Social Change and Mind Body Medicine programs. Raised in California by generations of Elders and Ancestors, long before “the border crossed them”, her Chicanx and Mescalero Apache identity is alive in Mezistaje consciousness, grounding her ethnothanatological research and decolonial praxis.


Matthew is a licensed clinical psychologist, lecturer, and administrator with experience in public sector mental health and substance abuse treatment. He has broad experience in program development. He was formerly founder and first Director of Training for the Ventura County Behavioral Health Pre-Doctoral Internship in Clinical Psychology and Chair-Elect of the Psychology Department at Ventura County Medical Center in Ventura, California. His research interests include personality disorders, comparative personality theory, and internet applications for mental health. Dr. Bennett is also a returned Peace Corps volunteer (“Poland III, 1991-1993”).


Patricia has been active in the Jungian world for nearly half a century, serving on faculties and boards of training institutions. She is one of the founders of Archetypal Psychology and is the author of Echo’s Subtle Body: A Contribution to Archetypal Psychology. Other more recent articles include: “Image in Motion,” “Rules of Thumb,” and “A Little Light.” In 1991 she was the first Scholar in Residence at Pacifica.


Allen is a licensed psychologist, certified psychoanalyst, and performing concert pianist. Dr. Bishop served for 10 years as Chair of the Clinical Psychology program. He has been a leader in the Santa Barbara psychoanalytic community for over 31 years and is a training and a former supervising Analyst at the Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis (ICP) in Los Angeles.


Brent Blair, Ph.D. is a Professor of Practice and the founding director of the Institute for Theatre & Social Change (ITSC) at the USC School of Dramatic Arts where he has been teaching since 1994. He founded the MA in Applied Theatre Arts (2010-2014), has created numerous undergraduate courses and a minor in Applied Theatre Arts focusing on the areas of therapy, education, and social change, and has designed community-based projects and professional development training programs in arts and social change both locally, nationally, and around the world.


Kesstan is a psychologist and psychosocial researcher specializing in dementia for the Dartmouth Centers for Health & Aging, Dartmouth College, Lebanon NH. Dr. Blandin provides clinical lectures and training in dementia, consultations to families, and designs therapeutic research interventions. As a scholar and researcher, her interests are in structures of self and identity in consciousness as correlated with brain functions, body-mind relationships, humanistic-existential psychology.


Barbara is currently Adjunct Faculty teaching Directed Research and advising students on the production of their Thesis. Over the years she has taught the Process of Psychotherapy, Career Development, and Clinical Practice, and has been a thesis advisor. In her private practice she focuses on neuropsychological and depth approaches to healing the emotional aftermath of Trauma as well as resolving mysterious long-standing embodied trauma.


Dr. Brewster is a Core Faculty member in the Clinical Psychology Department at Pacifica Graduate Institute. Prior to beginning in this capacity she served for five years as Adjunct Faculty working within the Depth, Archetypal and Jungian Psychology (DJA), and Depth Psychotherapy Departments (DPT), while maintaining a New York City private practice.


James has over forty years of experience in providing mental health services to individuals with serious mental illness. Jim was the Mental Health Director in two California counties for nearly twenty years (Shasta and Santa Barbara) and developed an APA approved pre-doctoral Internship program in Clinical psychology in Shasta County.


Rebecca is a licensed depth and body-centered psychotherapist and artist working across dance and visual art. She has served as a therapist at Counseling West Community Counseling Center in Sherman Oaks and Caring Connected in Pasadena, CA. Currently Rebecca serves as a Thesis Advisor and Teaching Assistant at Pacifica Graduate Institute and works with individual adults and partners in private practice in Pasadena and throughout California. She is a graduate of the Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology program at Pacifica and continues her education in Complex Trauma, Internal Family Systems, Dream Tending, Somatic Experiencing, Mysticism, Therapeutic Movement, and Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples.


Dr. Kayla Bunderson is a licensed clinical psychologist with a private practice based out of San Diego, CA. Outside of her private practice she is the Clinical Director for a treatment center specializing in trauma. She earned her master’s and doctorate degree in Clinical Psychology from Alliant International University: California School of Professional Psychology, San Diego. Her passion for working with trauma began with her dissertation titled Female Sexual Arousal during Rape: Implications on Seeking Treatment, Blame, and the Emotional Experience. Dr. Kayla's interests both clinically and academically include psychodiagnositc assessment, men's issues, trauma, and dissociative disorders.


Carol is an independent scholar, mentor and teacher specializing in archetypal, mythic and indigenous approaches to exploring the stories that shape our identities, experiences, expectations, erformances and roles, from the world of the arts to leadership studies, organizational and social change movements. She has a Ph.D. from Northwestern University's Performance Studies Department (1998), and MA in Creative Writing/English from Boston University (1984).