Wendy’s teaching focuses on integrating the body into a depth -oriented model. At Pacifica, she teaches Somatics. Her passion is to include the body in all conversations concerning the psyche. As a Dance-Movement Therapist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Authentic Movement Facilitator, Yoga and Mindfulness Meditation Instructor for over 30 years, she integrates a wealth of information into the learning environment through deep experientials, creative resourcing, and self-reflection processes.
Thomas is a certified Jungian Analyst and licensed as a Research Psychoanalyst with the California Medical Board. Thomas trained as an analyst at the Center for Depth Psychology according to C.G. Jung and Marie-Louise von Franz in Switzerland and specializes in the role of dreams and the symbolic life in clinical practice. He has a private practice in Santa Barbara. Tom teaches in the depth sequence courses. He is an Analytic Member of the International Association for Analytical Psychology.
Megan is Adjunct Faculty and teaches Process of Psychotherapy, Family Systems and Domestic Violence, Ethics and the Law: Child Abuse Assessment and Treatment. Megan is a Clinical Member of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists. M.A., Pacifica Graduate Institute Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, Licensed Professional Counselor.
Jonathan Erickson is core faculty in the Integral & Transpersonal Psychology PhD program at California Institute of Integral Studies. He holds a Ph.D. in depth psychology with emphasis in somatic studies from Pacifica, an MFA in creative writing from Antioch University Los Angeles, and a BA in English literature and interdisciplinary field studies from the University of California at Berkeley.
Dr. Jenny Escobar studies the resiliency and justice initiatives of survivors of state violence, while centering their agency and knowledge as the foundation for building a praxis of local and transnational healing. Her research program is informed by prior community-based collaborations in Colombia and commitment to restorative and transformative justice practices. Dr. Escobar weaves together rigorous transdisciplinary research and community-based foundational knowledge and skills to develop a framework of healing and justice based on the experiences and practices of survivors of state violence. This relational, survivor centered, healing and justice approach includes three areas of research: 1) the memory work of survivors of state violence during and post conflict; 2) the integration of
Elizabeth is a nationally recognized interdisciplinary artist, author and lecturer on visual thinking, creativity and archetypes in media. She received her Ph.D. in the Mythological Studies Program at Pacifica and her M.F.A. from the University of Washington. Her artwork is widely exhibited and is held in numerous public and private collections. It has also appeared on the covers of several international myth and depth psychology journals and books, including all eight issues of Mythosphere.
Dr. Jesica Siham Fernández is a transdisciplinary scholar, blurring disciplinary boundaries between social, community and liberation psychology, Critical Race & Ethnics Studies, especifical Latinx Studies, and Youth Studies. She is the author of the forthcoming book, "Growing Up Latinx: Coming of Age in a Time of Contested Citizenship" (New York University Press, 2022).
Shoshana Fershtman, JD, PhD, is a Jungian analyst and psychologist in Sonoma County, California, and the author of The Mystical Exodus in Jungian Perspective: Transforming Trauma and the Wellsprings of Renewal. Shoshana is a member analyst and teaches at the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. She served as core faculty in graduate psychology programs at both Sonoma State University and Meridian University. She has lectured widely on Jewish myth and mysticism, transgenerational trauma, and the Sacred Feminine. She also worked as an attorney advocate for environmental, social and racial justice and indigenous rights.
David Fetterman, Ph.D., is an evaluator who founded empowerment evaluation. Author of Empowerment Evaluation: Knowledge and Tools for Self-assessment, Evaluation Capacity Building, and Accountability; and Ethnography: Step by Step.
Carolyn is a writer, performer and cultural geographer. As a professor in Geography at the University of Kentucky, she is deeply interested in issues related to identity, difference, creativity, and resilience. In particular, she explores how issues of difference impacts participation in decision-making processes designed to address environmental issues. More broadly she likes to trouble our theoretical and methodological edges that shape knowledge production and determine whose knowledge counts.
Matthew is a licensed psychologist with a private practice in Sherman Oaks, California. His depth psychological practice incorporates Jungian analytic, psychoanalytic, existential, and mindfulness-based approaches. Both his dissertation (The Evocative Moment: A Study in Depth Psychological Poetics) and Master's thesis (Eclipse: Illuminating the Tragic Shadow of the Puer Aeternus) were part of a journey, and a calling, to make a home for theory, phenomenology, and poetry in depth psychological inquiry. At heart, his research embraces subtle, often elusive, experiences, and the via poetica that may give them voice and form.
Stephen serves as Director of Faculty Development at Trident University International. Dr. Fitzgerald has published books on decision- making and organizational models (Capstone Publishing, UK), numerous book chapters, journal articles, and conference proceedings, and co-edited a special issue of the AI Practitioner.
Sukey has been on the faculty of Pacifica since 2000 and is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who practices Jungian-based psychotherapy in her private practice in Santa Barbara. She brings her creative background in film and writing to her current work as an educator at Pacifica.
Chantal Noa Forbes, PhD, is a transdisciplinary scholar, storyteller, and educator at the intersection of ecology, spirituality, and culture. Her work explores the environmental significance of Indigenous and decolonial perspectives on multispecies ontology, more-than-human personhood, and cultural sovereignty. Chantal graduated with a Ph.D. in Philosophy and Religion from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), where she applied decolonial approaches to the narrative-based analysis of environmental engagement – focused on the ontological ambiguity of human-animal relationships in hunter-gatherer cosmology in Southern Africa.
Dylan Martinez Francisco, Ph.D. 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. Dylan grounds his work in indigenous/shamanic perspectives and practices that provide a primordial, holistic, and sacred worldview within which to understand the archetypal psyche, to embody its wholeness individually, and to serve it culturally through creative imagination.
Cynthia Fredericksen received her Master’s in Counseling Psychology degree from Pacifica Graduate Institute in 2012. She is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Santa Barbara California where she has a private practice. Cynthia is certified as an Ecotherapist and also certified in CBT-I to treat insomnia. Cynthia is adjunct faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute teaching in the Counseling Psychology department.
Nancy received her doctoral degree in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute and her M.S. in Educational Psychology from California State University, Long Beach. She has been an educational and business consultant, college professor, guest lecturer, and public workshop leader. Her publications include Tending the Living Dream Image, A Phenomenological Study.
Joanna Gardner is a writer, mythologist, and magical realist. She co-founded and co-leads the Fates and Graces Mythologium, an annual conference for mythologists and friends of myth. Joanna serves as Managing Editor on the Educational Task Force of the Joseph Campbell Foundation, and as a thought leader with the think-tank iRewild, where she works on the EcoStories initiative. Joanna’s research focuses on creation myth and the creative process. Her publications appear in a variety of venues, many of which you can find on her website, joannagardner.com.
Ryan is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner who works in private practice and teaches at Pacifica Graduate Institute and Antioch University in Santa Barbara. He specializes in trauma recovery, soul retrieval and in healing journeys that touch upon both inner and outer worlds.
Dara is currently associate research faculty at the UCLA Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences in the Laboratory for Molecular Neuroimaging and collaborates in the Consortium for Neuro Phenomics. Previously, Dara was a post-doctorate fellow in Russ Poldrack's Lab at UCLA. He received his PHD in the Neuroscience area of Psychology Department at Stanford.
