Mady is a writer, scholar, and theater artist. She has published her work in several journals including Black Clock, The Drama Review, Women and Performance, Theatre Topics, and The Journal of Medical Humanities, as well as in several critical anthologies.
Liz Schwandt, PsyD, BCBA, is the founding Clinical Director of Alta Family Development Center where she oversees behavioral and developmental assessment and intervention for young children and their families. She is also the Senior Director of the Child Development Center at SIJCC in Los Angeles, where she directs the Parenting Center, the Early Childhood Education and Early Childhood Special Education Programs, and the Parent-Infant Mental Health Program. In December of 2020, Liz founded GOTSLA, a non-profit organization that provides targeted, mobile, primary pediatric care to underserved Southern California residents. At the intersection of her work lays the conviction to provide services in ways that do not penalize families for being economically vulnerable, having recently arrived in
Michael J. Selby received his Ph.D in Clinical Psychology in 1987 from the University of Memphis, Tennessee and is a professor of Psychology at the State University in San Luis Obispo. He is the author of 27 articles and 50 presentations related to violence, antisocial personality disorder, eating disorders, depression, substance abuse, and Multiple Sclerosis. His private practice is primarily assessment of learning disabilities, head injury, and forensic psychology. He has testified in court over 100 times in cases involving Not Guilty by reason of Insanity, Trial Competency, Mentally Disordered Offender and Sexually Violent Offender. He lives with his wife Carol in San Luis Obispo.
Stacey Shelby, PhD, is an author, speaker, educator and primarily a depth psychotherapist working internationally via internet. She teaches "Psyche and Eros: The Psychology and Mythology of Romantic Love” at Pacifica Graduate Institute and is the author of Tracking the Wild Woman Archetype; and Love of Soul is forthcoming in 2022.
Dr. Vandana Shiva is trained as a Physicist and did her Ph.D. on the subject “Hidden Variables and Non-locality in Quantum Theory” from the University of Western Ontario in Canada. She later shifted to inter-disciplinary research in science, technology and environmental policy, which she carried out at the Indian Institute of Science and the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore.
Brandon Short earned a degree in mechanical engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology before turning to depth psychology, and graduating with a PhD from Pacifica in the Jungian and Archetypal Studies program, in 2018.
Helene Shulman Lorenz, Ph.D., Emerita has had a long history as a community activist in the Civil Rights, Anti-War, Farmworkers, Women’s, and African and Latin American Solidarity movements. Helene earned her doctorate in Philosophy from Tulane University and a Diploma in Analytical Psychology from the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland.
Carol is the founding editor of Personality Type in Depth, a journal that bridges the fields of psychological type and depth psychology. Her doctoral thesis in comparative literature focused on enantiodromia in medieval texts, and she has taught writing and literature at Eastern Connecticut State University, Yale University, and Duke University's division of continuing studies.
Dr. Matthew Silverstein is a founding member and director of the Spiritual and Depth Psychology Specialization (SDP) within the MA Psychology Program at Antioch University, Los Angeles. SDP offers coursework investigating the intersections between contemporary psychoanalytic/Jungian psychotherapy, classical mindfulness, cognitive neuroscience, and diversity-centered consciousness. He is honored to have been a founding member of the LGBT Specialization in Clinical Psychology.
Glen studied psychology and comparative religion at The University of Sydney before coming to the United States in 1992 for doctoral work in clinical psychology. He has been teaching at Pacifica for over twenty years and is currently the Associate Chair of the Jungian and Archetypal Studies specialization. He also teaches in the Mythological Studies program.
Dennis is a core faculty member who helped shape the development of the Mythological Studies program. He has been teaching for 44 years from elementary to secondary, undergraduate, and graduate programs. He has received the prominent rank of Distinguished Core Faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute.
Evans has degrees from Williams College, Antioch International, and The Claremont Graduate School. He is the author of ten books and numerous articles on comparative literature and mythology, and has taught at colleges in Switzerland, Maryland, Texas, and California, and at the C.G. Jung Institute in Kusnacht.
Jennifer Degnan Smith received her Ph.D. in Jungian and Archetypal Studies. She is focused on applying depth psychology to sociocultural issues, particularly those related to business, economics, and our relationship with the natural world.
Dr. Katherine Smith came to the field of clinical psychology after working as a Human Resources consultant in healthcare and tech start-ups. After a period of self-exploration, she enrolled in the Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology program at Antioch University Los Angeles where she specialized in Spiritual and Depth Psychology. She then pursued a doctorate in clinical psychology with an emphasis in depth psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute. Her dissertation was an interpretative phenomenological analysis of the clinician experience of treating suicidal patients and she continues to specialize in working with people who suffer from suicidal ideation and chronic depression.
Paul W. Speer, Ph.D. is a Professor at Vanderbilt University. His research is in the area of community organizing, participation, social power and community change.
Brian is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a member of Pacifica’s Adjunct Faculty in the M.A. Counseling Psychology department. He is a native Angeleno, having grown-up as a gay man in the 1970s in an impoverished ghetto of suburban Los Angeles. Brian has been a gay grassroots-psychological activist for many years. His clinical focus is on the empowerment and cultivation of LGBTQ+ personhood that honors and values the vitality, social role and visionary aspects of the LGBTQ+ experience from an affirmative and psychodynamic Jungian depth orientation.
Anja is a Pacifica Graduate Institute alumna and an LMFT with a private practice in Los Angeles, specializing in working with people in creative fields. She brings her background in screenwriting and filmmaking to her work, with an approach based in depth psychology, mindfulness and somatic awareness. Anja has published multiple articles in peer-reviewed journals and is a consultant at The International School of Los Angeles, where she continues her passion for working with teens. She had previously served on the board of The Center for Nonviolent Education and Communication. Anja has an MA in Journalism from the University in Vienna, Austria, and a BA in Political Science and Art History.
Brian Stafford MD, MPH is a licensed pediatrician, adult, adolescent, child, infant, and perinatal psychiatrist, having trained at the Tulane School of Medicine, the University of Kentucky Triple Board Program, and the Tulane Infant Institute. He practiced as an academic psychiatrist for 20 years at the Tulane School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital Colorado where he was the Anschutz Family Chair in Early Childhood Psychiatry. He also trained in Eco-depth psychotherapy and Soul Initiation Guiding through the Soulcraft Apprenticeship and Initiation Program at the Animas Valley Institute where he is now a Senior Guide, Trainer, Board Member, and Director of the holistic eco-depth psychotherapy Wild Mind Training Program.
Zaman has a doctorate in Political Science and completed his postgraduate studies in Islamic Mysticism (Sufism) and Islamic Gnosticism (Erfan). He has taught at Kabul University, the University of Southern California, the University of California, Los Angeles, and several community colleges in Southern California. His of areas of specialization are: Islamic Studies; Sufism; Theosophy; Political Philosophy;and Poetic Expression in Mystical Thought.
Thomas is a practicing psychotherapist, based out of Santa Maria and licensed in CA, AZ, and NV. He received his Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology from Pacifica in 2013. Thomas is Core Faculty and Research Associate for Track D in the Counseling Department. He has taught Psychopathology, Psychopharmacology, Cultural Psychology, Archetypal and Imaginal Psychology, and Research courses in the MA Counseling program. Working in close collaboration with health care professionals Thomas serves as a clinical consultant with Dignity/CommonSpirit Health in crisis support, medical staff wellness, and educational capacities. He has presented publicly and formally on mood and anxiety challenges, especially when involving co-occurring medical issues.
