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About Me
I joined Kaiser Permanente in 1990 after working within the community mental health system for the prior 15 years. During that period, I worked with Native Americans and Latinos in the Southwest, and African-Americans and Asians in San Francisco. While in the Southwest, I wrote a bill for a state legislature in 1980 to provide deinstitutionalized treatment within the mental health system. Later I directed day treatment programs in Napa County and then served as a psychologist in Solano County.
I earned my BS and MA degrees at Northern Arizona University and PhD from the University of New Mexico. Then in the late 1980’s I received an additional year of training in neuropsychology at the California School of Professional Psychology. I am the author of 12 books. My first, Consciousness, Dreams and Self won the 1997 Outstanding Academic Book of the Year Award by Choice (the publication of the American Library Association). My second book, Science, Theology, and Consciousness was nominated for the Templeton Prize by an international panel of jurists. America's Meltdown came out in 2003 and addresses concerns that I have regarding the drift to the lowest common denominator in contemporary society.
Books presenting practical strategies to help improve memory and survive PTSD, OCD, panic disorder, anxiety, and job stress include:
HEAL YOUR ANXIETY WORKBOOK
Anxiety is the most common psychological problem reported. The Heal-Your-Anxiety Workbook gives readers an understanding of the factors that contribute to anxiety and its triggers. The book includes 10 chapters, which address diet, sleep, the brain systems involved in anxiety, and the emotional/interpersonal facets. Finally, exercises such as worksheets, reflective questions, help formulate concrete goals to get beyond anxiety.
CONQUERING POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER
More than 13 million Americans experience Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and one out of 13 adults will develop it in their lifetime. Recent worldwide crises and events including the Iraq and Afghan wars; the September 11th attacks; numerous Columbine-like events; the Catholic Church child molestation scandal; and the Katrina tragedy in New Orleans, continue to present thousands more PTSD cases each year in all age groups. This book helps victims make sense of the events that led to their PTSD and teaches them how to create a new reality with specific advice and action plans that put them on the road to recovery and long-term healing.
HEAL YOUR OCD WORKBOOK
The Heal-Your-OCD Workbook gives readers an understanding of obsessive compulsive issues and triggers. Exercises help readers explore what the underlying causes of their compulsions and how they can effectively cope with their behaviors in everyday life including, work, relationships, and social situations. The newest research on OCD causes, treatments, and medications are also covered. A mnemonic ORDER prescribes a practical strategy to deal with OCD.
IMPROVING YOUR MEMORY FOR DUMMIES
This book includes practical tips and techniques that make memory more efficient. Whether you are getting older and now worried about your memory, cramming for an exam, having trouble remembering names, or you just want to give your overall memory skills a boost, this down to earth guide offers tricks to help you remember what you want to remember.
STOP SPOILING THAT MAN
Perhaps you've complained that your husband or boyfriend demands too much and gives too little back. Maybe he's evasive, a hypochondriac, and/or won’t pick up after himself. Perhaps that you are unconsciously rewarding the very behavior you've been complaining about all along? This book offers practical suggestions, quizzes, and real-life vignettes, to help you focus on enhancing your relationship and protecting yourself from passive-aggressive behavior.
SURVIVING JOB STRESS: Millions of Americans complain that their job is making them sick because of increased stress related to down-sizing, the threat of layoff, or an abusive supervisor. Surviving Job Stress is a how-to book that offers practical strategies on how to deal with the many facets of job stress. For a brief summary on how to survive job stress click The Job Stress: Life Boat.
REWIRE YOUR BRAIN incorporates the recent developments in neuroscience and evidence-based treatment to practical strategies for everyday life. It is a self-help book companion to the professional books: Brain-Based Therapy: Adult and Brain-Based Therapy: Child. REWIRE YOUR BRAIN is meant to be a practical “hands-on” self-help book for readers wishing to alleviate bad habits and achieve optimum brain and mental health.
Readers will learn how to deal with anxiety and feeling depressed. Readers will learn how to minimize those problems and get the most out of life.
BRAIN BASED THERAPY WITH ADULTS
Brain-Based Therapy with Adults: Evidence-Based Treatment for Everyday Practice provides a straightforward, integrated approach that applies what we currently know about the brain and how it impacts and informs treatment interventions. This book describes the sea change occurring in the way we conceptualize psychotherapy and reveals how this new vision of therapy takes into account the multiple subfields such as memory, attachment, stress, outcome management, as well as the social brain systems that contribute to the uniqueness of each client. Written for counselors, social workers, psychiatrists, psychologists, and graduate students, this new treatment approach focuses on the most common disorders experienced by adults. The book offers a historical backgrounds and evidence-based interventions for common adult disorders such as anxiety and depression and offers advice that can be put into practice immediately.
BRAIN-BASED THERAPY: WITH CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS
Designed for mental health professionals seeing children and adolescents, Brain-Based Therapy with Children and Adolescents: Evidence-Based Treatment for Everyday Practice is a primer for understanding and successfully implementing the most critical elements of neuroscience, attachment, temperament, attention problems, and child abuse factors, into an evidence-based mental health practice. Also, written for counselors, social workers, psychologists, and graduate students, this new treatment approach focuses on the most common disorders facing children and adolescents, taking into account the uniqueness of each client, while putting into perspective evidence-based practices.
Additionally, I serve as the Northern California Director of Training in mental health, overseeing the programs in 22 medical centers across Northern California. Each year we train over 120 mental health professionals, including post-doctoral psychology residents, pre-doctoral psychology interns, psychology practicum students, social work interns, and marriage and family therapy interns. For more information about the Northern California mental health training program click here.
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