Dr. Monica Mody is a Core Professor in the Mythological Studies with Emphasis in Depth Psychology Program, and a transdisciplinary scholar, educator, and poet at the intersections of liminal knowing/language, earth-based wisdom, and decolonial frameworks of wholeness. She comes to her teaching and writing as a border-crossing and cross-genre practitioner.
Mark was first licensed in New Mexico as a Clinical Mental Health Counselor where he worked in partnership with Native American healers using traditional healing techniques. He then became licensed in California as a Marriage, Family and Child Counselor and divided his practice between Beverly Hills and Santa Fe. Mark graduated from the Ph.D. Program in Clinical Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute in 2006 and began teaching that same year.
Jacqueline F. Moore is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, fine art painter, and musical composer. She received her MA in Counseling Psychology from the Pacifica Graduate Institute in 2021. She received a BFA in Fine Art Painting from the Academy of Art University in 2013. Her music, published under the name ‘Maya Lumen’ is signed to GYPYPOP Records as of 2018. She is a 500 hour certified yoga teacher, level 2 Reiki provider, and certified meditation teacher in the Theravada Buddhist tradition.
James Moura, Ph.D. is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Community, Liberation, Indigenous, and Eco-Psychologies specialization (CLIE) at Pacifica Graduate Institute and a professor (at the University of International Integration of Afro-Brazilian Lusophony and Federal University of Ceará, Brazil) and community psychologist working in indigenous and black communities in poverty with youth, adults, and older adults since 2007. He has a strong background in mental health promotion intervention projects, participatory liberation methodologies, participant action research, and decolonial studies, mainly in Latin America. He is a visiting professor at Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan, Mexico and Pontificia Universidad Católica de Lima, Peru.
Brenda Murrow is a graduate of the Clinical Psychology program at Pacifica. Brenda's passions include animals, animal-assisted therapy, play therapy, and research methods. She is enthusiastic about supporting students both in the classroom, and through sharing her clinical experiences when they support students in exploring their own clinical interests.
Elizabeth has been a member of the faculty since 2003, and has served as Dissertation Office Director, Dissertation Policy Director, and currently chairs the Graduate Research Council. She specializes in scholarly writing, research process and strategy, methodology, and dissertation development and also teaches courses in dream, imagery, technology, and cultural studies.
Yvonne received her Ph.D. in Depth Psychology with a Specialization in Jungian Psychology and Archetypal Studies from Pacifica Graduate Institute. In addition to teaching as an adjunct professor, she is the Vice President of Education and Programs at Myers & Briggs Foundation.
David M. Odorisio, PhD, serves as Associate Professor and Chair of Pacifica's Psychology, Religion, and Consciousness MA/PhD program. David has edited five volumes, including: Mysticism and the Margins: From the Hip-Hop Underground to the Psychedelic Reformation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025); Thomas Merton in California: The Redwoods Conferences and Letters (Liturgical Press, 2024); A New Gnosis: Comic Books, Comparative Mythology, and Depth Psychology (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022); Merton and Hinduism: The Yoga of the Heart (Fons Vitae, 2021); and co-editor of Depth Psychology and Mysticism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
Sabine is currently a health services researcher with the Greater Los Angeles Veterans Affairs (VA) Healthcare System, and she has participated in numerous qualitative and quantitative research projects at the VA and UCLA. She has a master's background in Public Health Epidemiology, a PhD in Depth Psychology from Pacifica, and a strong interest in depth psychological research methods and writing.
James’ research and teaching foreground African Diasporic ritual and performative cultures, ancestral veneration and spirit liturgical traditions, and ontologies and ecologies of Blackness, with a focus in Afro-Latinx folk Catholicism, Black Atlantic herbalism and pharmacopeia, and planetary ethics and ecocritical healing justice movements.
Avedis is a Fellow of the International Psychoanalytical Association, a certified psychoanalyst, researcher, senior lecturer, and licensed psychologist in California. He has served as a board member of the Western Regional Board for Diplomates in Clinical Psychology of the American Board of Professional Psychology. He has chaired Diplomate examinations and served as a licensure examiner for many years for the California Board of Psychology.
Tina is a core faculty member and research coordinator in the Counseling Psychology program and associate faculty in the Clinical Psychology Program. As a licensed psychologist, she has a part-time private practice in Santa Barbara where she works with adults and adolescents suffering from the aftermath of trauma, mood difficulties involved with depression and chronic illness, addiction, sexuality/sexual identity concerns related to LGBTQ populations, as well as first generation college/graduate students.
Ginette is a psychologist, therapist and author of many books, including Wisdom of the Psyche: Depth Psychology after Neuroscience (Routledge 2007). She is now Faculty Emeritus and was trained as a psychologist in Montréal, Canada where she was a tenured professor in the Department of Communication of the U. of Québec in Montréal for 15 years. In 1995 she became a permanent US resident and a core faculty at the Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara.
Arati Patel, MA, LMFT is a licensed marriage and family therapist, mindfulness meditation mentor, and an alumna of Pacifica Graduate Institute. She currently has a private practice in California where she provides a mindfulness-based and integrative approach to psychotherapy. She specializes in working with minorities and BIPOC individuals struggling with OCD, high-functioning anxiety, perfectionism, burnout, and imposter syndrome.
Ifat is a licensed clinical psychologist and an Egala certified equine assisted therapist working in private practice in the Los Angeles area, California. Dr. Peled served as adjunct faculty at Burlington College, Vermont, where she taught Human Development, Adolescence Development and Psychopathology from a depth perspective, and at the psychology department at College of the Canyons in Santa Clarita. She helped developing a psychology course for the Studio School for film and the performing arts. She is currently teaching in the M.A. Counseling program at Pacifica Graduate Institute.
Elizabeth is a depth psychotherapist (MFT, LPCC) and a guide and trainer of vision fasts and wilderness rites of passage. She is a core staff and advisory member of the School of Lost Borders, an international training center for wilderness rites of passage and nature-based therapeutic practices. Her scholarly interests focus on depth-ecopsycology, Jungian psychology, ecospirituality, and the inextricable relationship between psyche and nature, of which she has published in a variety of journals.
Chris is a diplomate of the American College of Forensic Examiners; Certificate from National Board of Addiction Examiners; Certificate in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Elizabeth is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Santa Barbara and a Pacifica graduate. She is the founder and director of The Santa Barbara Center for Creativity and Healing and a nationally certified Trainer/Educator/Practitioner in Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy (TEP). She has extensive experience working with chemical dependency and the trauma that underlies most addictive behaviors.
Daniel Joseph Polikoff is a poet, translator, and internationally known Rilke scholar. In addition to his book on Rilke and archetypal psychology (In the Image of Orpheus: Rilke—A Soul History), he has published two books of poetry, a translation of Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus and a creative non-fiction work chronicling his linked relationships with Rilke and anti-death penalty work, Rue Rilke.
