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Our exceptional Faculty Mentors are managers, administrators, consultants, educators, advisors, practitioners, and professionals in their respective fields. They are drawn from industry, business, mental health, and the academic community to assist our students in reaching their educational objectives. They are selected for their interest in promoting self-learning, professional expertise, real-world experience, academic background, and ability to communicate their knowledge and experience to our students.
Our programs are designed to encourage success and develop lifelong learning patterns. Therefore, interaction between faculty and students is an integral part of the University’s process.
A Faculty Mentor is assigned each time you enroll in a course so you have access to an academic specialist in the field.
Faculty Mentors will guide you through each course by phone, email, and through the CalSouthern Learning Center.
Education
PhD Educational Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles; MA Psychology, California State College, Los Angeles; BA Psychology, Azusa Pacific College, California; AA Psychology, Mt. San Antonio College, California
Areas of Interest and Expertise
Utilization of hypnosis in isolation and storage of traumatic injuries, clinical psychology, psycholinguistics, rationality versus religiousity, gender issues, creative art psycholinguistics
Bio
Dr. Allen has been a Licensed Clinical Psychologist since 1976. He has had extensive training in such fields as Ericksonian Hypnosis, Gestalt Psychotherapy, and biofeedback, among others.
Dr. Allen was in private practice for nearly 20 years, first as an individual practitioner and then with his wife. He created the Pomona Valley Psychological Center, a multi-faceted facility serving San Gabriel Valley residents, providing therapeutic services on an outpatient and inpatient basis. All ages, from single to multi-family, were accepted for therapy including biofeedback, group, and medical referrals to two on-staff psychiatrists. The staff grew to 17, which included Marriage and Family Therapists, Licensed Clinical Social Therapists, biofeedback therapists, Licensed Clinical Psychologists, and psychiatrists.
He is happy to be mentoring at CalSouthern, energetically working with Learners who are seeking to “find their potential and place in life.” He believes in lifelong education and lives by this wonderful thought from an unknown author: “Life’s beauty lies not in its capture, but in its pursuit.”
At the present time, Dr. Allen is preparing himself to enter the “final triad” of his life (a la Jung) and relishes the opportunity to mentor CalSouthern Learners.
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Education
PhD Psychology and MA Psychology, Alliant International University, California; BS Mathematics (Computer Science), San Diego State University, California
Areas of Interest and Expertise
Addiction recovery, prison release programs, educational learning environments, process improvement within a variety of organizations and spirituality in the workplace and in therapy
Bio
After receiving her MA in Psychology, Dr. Andrews began working with pregnant addicts providing a complete life program. She transitioned to life coaching executives, teams, and individual employees. She developed numerous traditional (classroom) and online courses for leadership and conducted training in every-day life situations including parenting and communication strategies for employees.
Her experience in the United States at the university level as an educator includes providing guidance in statistics and research, psychology courses in family systems, drug addiction, counseling, communication, motivation, and leadership. In Romania, she developed and taught a course entitled “Faith-based Psychology and Counseling” for a Romanian Bible college.
Dr. Andrews is the Editor of two European and one American journal; Published peer-reviewed research articles; Director of humanitarian organization in Romania; Presented at APA, WASC WCET, and European conferences; Previous chairperson of California Psychological Association, Division 3
Dr. Andrews spent 2 years in Israel working for the government there and lived in Romania for 8 years working with teenage orphans and elderly Roma people through a non-profit organization she currently directs. In addition to mentoring, she currently provides works with heroin addicts towards recovery and finds time for her three grandchildren.
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Education
MS Psychology and BS Psychology, California State University, Los Angeles
Areas of Interest and Expertise
Trauma, attachment, altruism, mind-body connections, spirituality
Bio
Victoria Bloom is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist. In addition to being a founding member of the faculty at CalSouthern, Dr. Bloom has a successful private practice in Irvine, California. Treating adults, couples and adolescents, Dr. Bloom specializes in the treatment of depression, anxiety and trauma, and parenting challenges and attachment problems. She is certified in hypnosis and EMDR and has had extensive training and experience in the area of psychological testing and assessment. She worked for many years at inpatient psychiatric facilities, managing groups for both adults and adolescents.
Her interests include home-schooling her five- and eight-year-old daughters, horseback riding, gardening, reading, and traveling.
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Education
MSW Social Work, Adelphi University, New York; BA English, Seton Hill College, Pennsylvania
Areas of Interest and Expertise
Relationships, clinical hypnotherapy, eating disorders, stress and pain management
Bio
Barbara Denny has been a Faculty Mentor with California Southern University for many years. She helped develop the Bachelor’s program in psychology as well as many of the graduate-level courses in the department. She also has a thriving private practice, specializing in relationship problems, eating disorders, and job stress. Barbara employs clinical hypnosis techniques for stress, pain control, sleep disorders and habit modification. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and is certified in Clinical Hypnotherapy. Her professional affiliations include membership in the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, the National Association of Social Workers, the Employee Assistance Professional Association and the Los Angeles Academy of Clinical Hypnosis.
Barbara loves to travel, especially internationally, whether on safari in Africa or hiking through the French countryside.
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Education
PhD Human Services with Specialization in Counseling, Capella University, Minnesota; MA Counseling, MS Education, and BS Education, Chadron State College, Nebraska
Areas of Interest and Expertise
Childhood and workplace bullying, female empowerment, relationships and intimacy, holistic and traditional counseling, mind-body-spirit connections, stress, creative interpretation of art and the subconscious, counseling ethics, cultural diversity, literature and its role in counseling
Bio
Dr. Dilts-Harryman is a Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of Wyoming. She also holds certification from the National Board of Certified Counselors as a Nationally Certified Counselor. “Dr. DH” is a founding member of Defining Moments Counseling and Holistic Wellness Center, and practices traditional counseling while incorporating a variety of holistic modalities into her sessions. She is an accomplished public speaker, returning annually as a featured speaker at the Wyoming Counseling Association Conference, the Wyoming Women’s Expo, as well as the New Earth Productions Holistic Fair, in addition to other speaking engagements throughout the United States.
Dr. Dilts-Harryman has also hosted a bi-monthly TV show on mental health and the mind-body connection and was editor of a natural health magazine. Prior to moving into private practice, she was an educator on various academic levels: a junior high and high school teacher and counselor; an instructor at Hutchinson Community College, Hutchinson, KS and Western Nebraska Community College, Scottsbluff, NE; an instructor and administrator at Cranford Business College, Hutchinson, KS; an instructor for Sterling College, Sterling, KS; and an online instructor for Axia University.
Dr. Dilts-Harryman’s passion in life is learning and sharing knowledge, and although formalized education is extremely important, she believes that learning comes in many forms, on many levels, and from many directions. She embraces any opportunity to learn, teach, and experience. She also is an avid reader, seizes any opportunity to travel the U.S. and abroad, and loves participating in community theater.
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Education
MS Clinical Psychology, California State University, San Bernardino; BA French, University of California, Los Angeles
Areas of Interest and Expertise
Abuse, neglect, trauma, substance abuse, bringing holistic and integrated healing as well as empowerment to young adults and adolescents, especially those in the foster care and probation systems
Bio
Gia is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a background in education. She taught at California State University, San Bernardino, where she was an award-winning lecturer. As a therapist, she has worked with both the Department of Behavioral Health and the Department of Probation in San Bernardino County. She is passionate about empowering the underserved, especially young adults and adolescents from the foster care and probation systems, helping them to overcome incredible challenges to fulfill their potential and reach their goals.
Gia enjoys both watching and playing sports and is active in her church community. She currently provides individual therapy to emancipated foster care youth with United Friends of the Children (UFC). She is grateful to be part of a team whose vision is to prepare foster youth for a future that works.
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Education
PhD Psychology and MA Psychology, Northcentral University, Arizona; MS Family Science, Concordia University, Nebraska; BA Psychology, Armstrong Atlantic State University, Georgia
Areas of Interest and Expertise
Assessments, head trauma, death and suicide, social psychology and sports psychology
Bio
Dr. Hunter is a devoted educator and researcher, as well as a gifted speaker. She has addressed the Southeastern Psychology Association and is currently researching the residual effects and cognitive functioning deficits or decompression illness on SCUBA divers. She strives to help as many CalSouthern Learners as possible to reach their educational and professional goals.
Before completing her PhD, Dr. Hunter spent seven years in the U.S. Army, seven years as a firefighter and paramedic and two years as a police officer. A former Olympic hopeful in the discus, Dr. Hunter enjoys SCUBA diving, plays guitar, and sings in a professional choir.
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Education
PsyD Clinical Psychology, Alliant International University, California; MA Psychology, Pepperdine University, California; BA Psychology, University of California, Irvine
Areas of Interest and Expertise
Learning in adolescents with Asperger’s Syndrome
Bio
Dr. Johnson-Nguyen is a Clinical Psychologist and has been licensed since 2004. She has worked in an array of clinical settings, including a community mental health clinic, a foster family agency, a group/private practice, a non-public school, and on the adolescent unit of a psychiatric hospital. Dr. Johnson-Nguyen’s clinical experience at these settings includes the treatment of children, adolescents, adults, and families.
She has conducted both individual and group therapy sessions. In addition, Dr. Johnson-Nguyen has administered psychological assessments in a mental health clinic and a psychiatric hospital setting. She currently maintains a successful private practice, offering supervision and guidance to behavioral consultants who are providing services to adults with mental and physical challenges.
Dr. Johnson-Nguyen married her high school sweetheart in 2004 and is the mother of two beautiful children. She enjoys reading, traveling with her family, and exposing her children to new experiences.
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Education
PhD Psychology, United States International University, California; MS Education, University of Southern California, Los Angeles; BS Business, Russell Sage College, New York
Areas of Interest and Expertise
Addictions, both substance and process; attachment theory, PTSD, workplace violence and harassment, phase-of-life issues, personality assessment, hypnotherapy
Bio
Dr. Lackey maintains a busy private practice. She does individual and family therapy as a California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT). Dr. Lackey also conducts personality evaluations for various legal and religious entities, as well as educational assessment and consultation with private and public schools as a California Licensed Educational Psychologist (LEP). Dr. Lackey consults with various businesses and agencies on topics such as critical incident stress debriefing, personality traits in the workplace, and other general topics designed to help employers create a healthy work climate. She also serves as a Subject Matter Expert for the State of California, planning, writing, critiquing, and evaluating both MFT and LEP Licensing exams.
An experienced educator, Dr. Lackey has taught psychology at Pepperdine University, Southern California University for Professional Studies and Northcentral University. She has taught courses including Individual and Child Development, Child Therapy, Psychological Assessment, Family Systems Development, Law and Ethics, Psychology of Violence, Substance Abuse: Detection and Treatment, Attention Deficit Disorder: Theories and Practices, and Dissertation Research and Writing.
Dr. Lackey has also worked as a school psychologist in the Placentia Yorba Linda Unified and Capistrano Unified School Districts, where her responsibilities included individual and group counseling, psychoeducational assessment, coordinating special education programs, chairing annual reviews, parent and staff consultation, supervision of MFCC and school psychology interns, and critical incident stress debriefing.
Dr. Lackey has traveled extensively both abroad and in the U.S. She enjoys the theater, swimming, boogie boarding, and snorkeling. She also enjoys fine—and not-so-fine—dining and spending time with her husband, adult children, grandchildren, siblings, and friends.
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Education
PhD Psychology, Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center, California; MA Communication Science with Emphasis in Interpersonal Communication, Governors State University, Illinois: BA Public Information, Columbia College, Illinois
Areas of Interest and Expertise
Dream content, life experiences of social activists, ethics of dream research
Bio
Dr. Lewis returned to school in mid-life to receive her PhD in psychology, with an emphasis in consciousness and spirituality. In addition to her position as Faculty Mentor at CalSouthern, she teaches psychology at Northcentral University, University of Phoenix, and Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center, where Dr. Lewis is Interim Co-Director of the Dream Studies Certificate Program. She has also taught Parapsychology and Communication at Governors State University and Central College.
Dr. Lewis is the president of SPEAK (Supporting and Promoting Ethics for the Animal Kingdom), an all-volunteer national animal rights humane education speakers bureau. She also is an editor with the International Association for the Study of Dreams.
She is a runner, yoga practitioner, and meditator, attending Buddhist retreats at least twice a year. She also enjoys documentaries and reading non-fiction and historical fiction. An animal lover, Dr. Lewis has a Shetland Sheepdog, a Welsh Pembroke Corgi, an African Grey parrot named Opus, a Brazilian Cardinal, and a box turtle.
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Education
PsyD Psychology, Argosy University,California; MA Counseling Psychology, National University, California; BS Liberal Arts, Arizona State University
Areas of Interest and Expertise
Attachment theory, Schema Theory, Social Psychology, Parenting, Childhood Bipolar Disorder, Spirituality
Bio
Dr. Mann returned to school in mid-life to pursue both a Master’s Degree and Doctoral Degree in psychology. She has worked as a therapist in several clinical settings, counseling adults, young children, families and groups including teen mothers, and boys released from Juvenile Hall that were on probation. Her experience also includes facilitating court-ordered Batterer's Treatment groups for individuals convicted of domestic violence. She has provided psychological assessments for the CA Youth and Family Resource Center in Anaheim, which serves youth who are repeat offenders.
Dr. Mann has also served as a therapist and provided psychological assessments at Western Youth Services in Anaheim and in San Juan Capistrano, CA. The populations that were served include diverse ethnicities of children, adolescents, adults and families in individual and family therapy. Patients were seen as a result of experiencing trauma, abuse, abandonment, or school difficulties. Common diagnoses ranged from anxiety, depression, oppositional defiant disorder, ADHD, post-traumatic stress disorder, and attachment disorders through psychotic disorders.
Her doctoral dissertation was titled “An Integration of Cognitive Behavioral and Psychodynamic Models: An Analysis of the Relationship Between Parenting, Schema Development and Coping Strategies” that investigates the process by which children develop early maladaptive beliefs and coping strategies that often lead to psychopathology in response to impaired parenting.
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Education
MS Counseling (MFT), California State University, Fullerton; MS Gerontology, California State University, Fullerton; BA Human Development, California State University, Long Beach
Areas of Interest and Expertise
Intergenerational influence on aging, successful aging, biology and psychology of aging, trauma and grief interventions, military mental health interventions, and music and expressive art therapies.
Bio
Sheila McCabe’s work has focused on research and outreach with underserved veteran populations, such as Native American veterans and their families. Her primary goal is to facilitate alternative mental health healing modalities that are culturally sensitive and that may be outside the standard VA treatment protocol. In 2006, she established a non-profit organization and an online resource center for veterans and their families dealing with post-traumatic stress, as well as other issues of adjustment and healing.
Besides being busy with work, studies and family, she is also a dedicated musician. She enjoys playing guitar and mandolin in a variety of musical settings and professional venues.
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Education
PsyD United States International University, California; MA Chapman University, California; BA University of California, Irvine
Areas of Interest and Expertise
Cultural diversity, family therapy
Bio
Dr. McCord’s love of travel has afforded her many opportunities to gain experience with cultural diversity and the field of psychology around the world. She has taught English overseas at several universities in Japan and worked with children at an orphanage in Nepal. She worked with the Peace Corps and taught in Poland. She also taught psychology courses under the U.S. Navy’s special education program, traveling around the world while doing so.
While in the U.S, she has worked for Family Services and the County of Santa Cruz. She is also a member of the Disaster Mental Health Team with the Red Cross and assists survivors when needed. Her areas of specialty include cultural diversity and family therapy. She teaches a number of courses and workshops in those areas. She hopes to continue teaching and traveling for many years to come.
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Education
PhD Psychology, Northcentral University, Arizona; MS Applied Addictions Studies, Nova Southeastern University, Florida; BS Guidance and Counseling, University of Louisville, Kentucky
Areas of Interest and Expertise
All of the areas of the treatment of alcohol or drug dependence, including screening assessment, diagnosis, special populations (particularly criminal offenders, pregnant women, and families), interventions, and the use of technologies to improve long-term outcomes.
Bio
Dr. McKiernan began work as an alcohol and other drug counselor in 1983. He has worked with a wide variety of populations including adolescents, pregnant women, mothers, criminal justice clients, clients with HIV/AIDS, and those with severe and persistent mental illness. For 16 years, Dr. McKiernan worked for Volunteer of America of Kentucky, directing the Alcohol and Other Drug Community and Mental Health Services, developing programs, training counselors, and continuing his professional development.
Currently, Dr. McKiernan works for the Kentucky Department of Veterans Affairs, coordinating services, and developing programs for homeless veterans with substance abuse and mental health problems. In addition, he has an appointment to the University of Louisville Graduate Faculty, teaches courses for the Kent School of Social Work, and co-directs the Alcohol and Drug Counselor Specialization. He maintains a 20-bed recovery-focused facility for men, which is his passion. He hopes to expand this facility so he can serve up to 200 individuals.
Dr. McKiernan’s second passion is teaching at the university level, and he is a firm believer in, and passionate advocate for, the advantages of distance learning.
He is married with two children and enjoys travel, swimming, biking, hiking, and basketball.
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Education
PhD Marriage and Family Therapy, MS Marriage and Family Therapy, Nova Southeastern University, Florida; BS Business and Public Administration, University of Missouri
Areas of Interest and Expertise
Brief therapy outcomes, marriage and family issues, depression, anxiety and trauma
Bio
Dr. Ron Muchnick is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Licensed Mental Health Counselor. He is a passionate supporter of distance learning, and teaches at several other online universities, in addition to California Southern.
Dr. Muchnick also maintains a private practice in San Diego, CA. He specializes in working with marriage and family issues, ADHD, the treatment of depression, anxiety and trauma, blended family and divorce issues, single parenting, and workplace issues. Dr. Muchnick is the author of Self Coaching: How to S.O.L.V.E Your Personal and Workplace Issues.
Dr. Muchnick’s interests include traveling, grandparenting, tennis, reading, and enjoying the beach.
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Education
PhD Marriage and Family Counseling, St. Louis University, Missouri; MA Counseling and BA Psychology, University of Missouri
Areas of Interest and Expertise
Leadership and counselor training, chronic illness, race and gender issues, family diversity
Bio
As a dual-licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Mental Health Counselor for more than 30 years, Dr. Muchnick has divided her time between therapy and education. She has extensive experience in teaching and training graduate mental health learners in both distance-education and traditional learning environments.
As the director of the Counseling Center for Contemporary Living, Dr. Muchnick has developed programs, supervised therapists, and provided therapy for individuals, couples, and families.
Her wide range of expertise is reflected in the scope of workshops and seminars she has presented at state and national professional meetings, including: Adventures in Leadership Training; Training Primary Healthcare Counselors; Re-Storying Illness: Multiple Family Groups for Chronic Illness; Rewriting Stories: Narrative Therapy Approaches; Ethical Dilemmas: The Illusion of Black and White; Gender Talk: Changing Roles of Men and Women; Celebrating Our Past, Present, and Future: Family Diversity.
Dr. Muchnick is currently in private practice in Del Mar, CA, serves on the California State Board for Marriage and Family therapy, and is the Chairman of the San Diego AAMFT-CA Network District. She also is a founding member of the San Diego MFT Educational Consortium.
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Education
PsyD Clinical Psychology, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne; MS Psychology and BS Psychology, Acadia University, Canada
Areas of Interest and Expertise
Personal and organizational health and wellness, emotional awareness and expression, personal and executive success coaching, establishing a life's purpose, entrepreneurial coaching, developing strategies for college success
Bio
Through years of personal experience and a decade of discussing intrapersonal and interpersonal difficulties with clients in Canada and the United States, Dr. Nickerson understands the detrimental effects of a depleted self-image, detachment from self, lack of empowerment, and overwhelming stress. She has developed innovative strategies for achieving personal mastery, success, and improved productivity for both individuals and corporations.
Dr. Nickerson has had a long-standing interest and expertise in the processes of both life mastery through personal development, and with maintaining work environments that feed the soul and excite employee participation. Dr. Nickerson's interventions are designed to enhance and promote a sense of empowerment, motivation, a core sense of identity and purpose, authenticity, self-image, and emotional and spiritual well-being. The goal of her individual coaching sessions and seminars is to provide participants with the insight, skills, and knowledge necessary to self-actualize and bring their dreams and goals to fruition.
Dr. Nickerson has authored the book Wild Women Never Get the Blues! How to Tap into Your Intuition to Create Your Best Life, hosts the radio show Dr. Wendy's Coaching Corner, and is founder and president of Atlantic Coaching Enterprises.
Dr. Nickerson is passionate about physical, emotional, and spiritual fitness and well-being. She enjoys being in nature, spending time on the ocean, being around animals, and breathing clean air. She loves mountain hiking, biking, sailing, yoga and meditation, and traveling.
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Education
PhD Psychology, MS Psychology, and BS Psychology, Memphis State University, Tennessee
Areas of Interest and Expertise
Clinical and cognitive psychology including perceptual, personality, abnormal, developmental, and social
Bio
Dr. Pardo has practiced as a clinical psychologist, counselor, and therapist in several countries, and currently has residences in the U.S., Canada, Kazakhstan, China and Australia. She has been trained in 12 languages, has worked in more than 32 countries, and continues to advise governments (including cabinet members and ministries of finance, transport, sport, and education) as well as members of the British Royal Family and the Royal Family of Saudi Arabia.
She applies psychology to business and has consulted for Fortune 500 companies including General Motors, Saturn, Cadillac, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Buick, Chevrolet, Federal Express, Citibank, Whirlpool, Litton, McDonalds, and Wrigley. She has conducted research for the U.S. military and human factors laboratories for major corporations, and has also developed econometric models for corporations using neural network analysis based upon psychological principles and methods. Her training in pre-med and research in bio and neuropsychology has helped advance the links to cognitive psychology that formed the basis for the therapies of the ’80s and ’90s that are still prevalent today.
She is pleased to be a Faculty Mentor at CalSouthern and enjoys mentoring Learners from all over the world, taking a personal interest in each Learner and providing personal contact details for 24/7 availability, regardless of her travel schedule or current residence.
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Education
MA Forensic Psychology, Alliant International University, California; BA Psychology, California State University, Fullerton
Areas of Interest and Expertise
Sex offenders, psychological evaluations in the courts and psychometrics
Bio
Dr. Nhung (Junh) Phan received her BA in psychology from California State University, Fullerton and an MA and PsyD in forensic psychology from Alliant International University.
She currently works at the County of Orange, Mental Health Services Agency (MHSA) in Santa Ana, Calif., where she administers neuropsychological, psychological, intelligence, and related mental health assessments to clients referred to MHSA from clinics seeking help in diagnostic impressions and treatment plans. She also has practiced at the Juvenile Drug Court in Orange, Calif., where she administered psychological tests and assessments to determine client eligibility for the court. Dr. Phan worked in an elementary school setting, providing counseling services for students who experienced behavioral or personal problems or difficulties with academics. She has provided psychotherapy to geriatric clients suffering from dementia, pain disorders associated with medical conditions, and myriad other psychiatric and mental disorders.
In addition to those areas of interest and experience, she researches about sex offenders, psychological evaluations in the courts, psychometrics, and topics that she presents for conferences and speaking engagements.
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Education
PhD Psychology, California School of Professional Psychology; MA Psychology, San Diego State University, California; BA Psychology, University of California, San Diego
Areas of Interest and Expertise
Romantic love, financial psychology, psychometrics
Bio
Dr. Rich is a Licensed Psychologist. He has a private practice, specializing exclusively in psychological testing. He is a member of the American Psychological Association, and has been licensed as a psychologist since 1987. He has worked as a psychologist for the Texas Department of Corrections and for the Orange County Health Care Agency, where he provides contracted consultation services to the Quality Improvement and Program Compliance Division.
Dr. Rich was a lecturer in the Counseling Department at California State University, Fullerton from 1990 to 1997. His acclaimed book, The Couple’s Guide to Love and Money, has been featured in a wide variety of magazines, radio shows, and on national TV.
He enjoys writing, playing the piano, computer work such as programming and website design, and spending time with his family.
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Education
MS Counseling, California State University, Fullerton; BA Art, City University of New York
Areas of Interest and Expertise
Substance abuse, trauma, stress
Bio
Enid Richey is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, as well a founding member of the faculty at CalSouthern. She has been licensed and in private practice in Rancho Cucamonga, CA, since 1986. Enid is certified by the American Psychological Association College of Professional Studies and by the National Association of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors in the treatment of psychoactive substance abuse disorders. She also is qualified by the Department of Transportation as a Substance Abuse Professional. In addition, she holds certifications from the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress and by the National Association of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapists.
A lover of animals, Enid has been extensively involved since 2001with the rescue, rehabilitation, and placement of lost and abandoned Golden Retrievers and Labrador Retrievers in Southern California.
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Education
PhD Psychology and Clinical Psychology, Capella University, Minnesota; MA Counseling Psychology, Goddard College, Vermont; BA Psychology, Drake University, Iowa
Areas of Interest and Expertise
Addiction, chronic illness, neuropsychology, psychopharmacology.
Bio
Dr. Salvucci has more than 29 years of experience in the behavioral health field. She has worked in a variety of different settings, including state institutions, prisons, hospitals, private agencies, community mental health agencies, and addiction treatment centers. She has held a variety of positions, such as detoxification technician, crisis therapist, primary therapist, clinical director and program director, in addition to providing consultation services. Currently, Dr. Salvucci is the clinical director of a mental health and substance abuse clinic in the Phoenix area.
In addition to the education noted above, Dr. Salvucci has completed post-doctoral training in Clinical Psychopharmacology from Fairleigh Dickinson University and also been trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR).
Dr. Salvucci enjoys hiking, deep-sea fishing, and traveling in her spare time.
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Education
MA Counseling & Psychological Services, Saint Mary's University, Minnesota; BA Communications, Northwestern College, Minnesota
Areas of Interest and Expertise
The intersection of families and social policy with an emphasis on same-sex couple legal relationship recognition and couple dynamics and specifically, the differences between same-sex couples who are in a legal marriage and a domestic partnership.
Bio
Naomi J. Schwenke is a researcher, clinician, and professor from Minneapolis, Minnesota. She has a master’s degree in counseling psychology and marriage and family therapy from St. Mary’s University of Minnesota. She is currently finishing a doctoral degree in Family Studies at Loma Linda University in Loma Linda, CA. As a clinician she specializes in individual, couple and marriage relationship issues, sexual orientation, grief & loss, and life transition. She has spent the last several years working with children, adults, couples and families in outpatient mental health clinics, non-profit agencies, school-based settings, and in private practice. In her role as a researcher her work focuses on the intersection of families and social policy with an emphasis on same-sex couple legal relationship recognition and couple dynamics. Naomi is an avid runner and reader, and traveler. She is a big fan of her three nieces Reghan, Sadie, and Dana. When she not teaching, consulting, or telling stories with data she divides her time between friends and family in beautiful Southern California, Minnesota and Virginia.
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Education
NMD Naturopathic Medicine, Bastyr University, Washington; PhD and MS Home Economics, Florida State University, Tallahassee; BA Bible, Bob Jones University, South Carolina
Areas of Interest and Expertise
Behavioral medicine, the mind-body connection
Bio
Dr. Sumpter has served as an associate director for a youth program in Florida, working with children who had run afoul of the law. Over the years, he has taught on the university level, rising to the level of full professor. Dr. Sumpter has also directed a residential facility for boys with behavioral problems.
Today, in addition to teaching, he does private counseling, serves as an expert witness on behalf of the Social Security Administration, and is developing a website on behavioral medicine (www.CenterOnBehavioralMedicine.com). He grew up in Seattle, Washington and loves his work, which he also considers his hobby.
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Education
MA Clinical Psychology, Pepperdine University, California; BA Social Science, Interdisciplinary, State University of New York, Buffalo
Areas of Interest and Expertise
Marriage and family therapy, sex education, relationship issues
Bio
Stephanie has enjoyed her years of work in the field as a therapist. From treating battered women and homeless adults on the West Coast, to teens and families on the East Coast, her experience is vast and diverse. She has worked with a juvenile offender program supporting families and teens, as the teens returned back to their communities from residential treatment facilities. She has worked in a treatment facility and enjoyed group therapy work with teen boys that even included developing team-building skills on a ropes course. More recently, Stephanie has worked at a family center with programs supporting teen mothers, foster families, and children, as well as court-ordered clients.
Each family and client always proves to have unique needs, whether it’s sex education or intensive anger-management therapy. Stephanie finds this exciting, challenging, and ultimately, very rewarding. She loves learning in life, and continues her own education and personal growth as a wife and mother. She is passionate about taking care of the earth and does her part to learn how we can all do more in this regard each day. Eating right and getting enough sleep are areas that Stephanie strives to improve upon with her family. She also loves to take classes at the gym to stay healthy. Kickboxing and soccer are her new favorite sports for exercise, and swimming with her children is where you can find her on a hot California weekend.
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