Faculty Directory

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Becca S. Tarnas, Ph.D., is a scholar, artist, and editor of Archai: The Journal of Archetypal Cosmology. She received her doctorate in Philosophy and Religion from the California Institute of Integral Studies, with her dissertation titled The Back of Beyond: The Red Books of C. G. Jung and J. R. R. Tolkien.


C.D. is Adjunct Faculty at Pacifica, teaching Counseling in Substance Use. He received his doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Pacifica. Born in England, he originally came to Southern California to teach Fine Art at USC – he holds an MFA degree. C.D. then became a Director/Producer in the entertainment industry before entering the field of psychology. He worked for 20 years at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital’s Residential Center (a residential program for the treatment of dual-diagnosis patients) where he was Lead Case Manager and Primary Therapist.


Andrew earned his master's in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University, Santa Barbara and completed a 2-year program in Hakomi Integrative Body Therapy Training. Andrew also has completed three years of training in Interpersonal Neurobiology through Dan Siegel’s Mindsight Institute. Andrew has been leading groups for adults who were sexually molested as children for the last 16 years.


Douglas has a private Jungian based psychotherapy practice in Pasadena and he teaches as adjunct faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, California. He has presented workshops and talks throughout the state of California on LGBTQ issues and on dream therapy, his two areas of specialization.


Paula is Professor in the Department of Kinesiology, California State University, Northridge (CSUN). She is a licensed Clinical Psychologist, certified Sport Psychologist, and works in private practice in California. She is Co-Director of the Performance Psychophysiology Laboratory at CSUN, adjunct faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute and Professor Emeritus at York University’s Departments of Theatre and Graduate Studies (Canada).


Kandice Timmons, Psy.D. is licensed clinical psychologist in private practice and mental health consultant for the Los Angeles Job Corps Center. She received her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University Santa Barbara


María Elena Torre is the founding director of The Public Science Project at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York where she is on the doctoral faculties of Critical Social Psychology and Urban Education. A queer mama of a very cool teenager, she has been engaged in critical participatory action research nationally and internationally with communities in neighborhoods, schools, prisons, and community-based organizations for over 25 years. María has written extensively about how decolonizing methodologies, radical inclusion, and a praxis of solidarity can inform a participatory public science that supports movements for transformation and justice.


Jackie is adjunct faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute and Antioch University Santa Barbara, where she previously served as Senior Student Advisor for the Masters in Clinical Psychology Program. Jackie worked in the community mental health field for 20 years in both direct service and program management roles before receiving her master’s degree from Pacifica. She has also served as an academic and thesis editor. Currently, she is in private practice where she provides individual, couples, and group therapy.


Maura Tousignant, L.M.F.T., is a depth-oriented and somatic psychotherapist and teaches as adjunct faculty in the M.A. Counseling Psychology program at Pacifica. She is based in Santa Monica and has a private practice with a focus on complex trauma, anxiety, grief, and relationship issues. She trained in Hakomi mindful somatic psychotherapy and Brainspotting, and her clinical work integrates Jungian, psychodynamic, attachment, mindfulness, and somatic approaches. She attained her master's degree in Counseling Psychology: Marriage and Family Therapy, Professional Clinical Counseling, and Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute.


Alma M. Ouanesisouk Trinidad, PhD, is a macro social worker and scholar activist, born and raised on the island of Molokai, Hawai'i with roots from Ilocos Norte, Philippines. Her work has focused on individual and collective healing through decolonizing, Indigenizing, and elevating the voices and struggles of the people.